'LifeSize' Job Interviews Offered in HD

LifeSize , an HD communications firm in Austin, Texas, has begun a collaborative project with Boyden , a Washington, D.C.-based international executive search firm, to conduct remote job interviews as part of Boyden's initial evaluation process. Boyden has established a live HD job service to allow firms in the grea

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Jul 19, 2006

LifeSize, an HD communications firm in Austin, Texas, has begun a collaborative project with Boyden, a Washington, D.C.-based international executive search firm, to conduct remote job interviews as part of Boyden's initial evaluation process.

Boyden has established a live HD job service to allow firms in the greater Baltimore region the opportunity to use its LifeSize-furnished facility and video system on an as-needed basis. (According to its Web site, the list of Boyden clients includes the CIA and National Security Agency.)

The Boyden facility, called the "LifeSize Room," provides HD-quality "face-to-face interviews with prospective employees. Before implementing the LifeSize Room concept, Boyden said in a statement it relied on video services provided by FedEx Kinko's to remote-interview job candidates. Boyden said its new Baltimore HD facility from LifeSize is more cost-effective.

LifeSize, an HD-centric video communications company that works primarily with corporations and job recruitment firms, said this week it is growing its operations in Japan, India and Germany, where it already conducts some business. The Austin, Texas-based company said it recently shipped its 1,000th LifeSize Room

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