It seems for the past week I’ve written around a common theme: unique ways can anyone can start or expand a business with web video.<\/p>\n
And continuing with that, today’s topic is video resumes<\/strong>.\u00a0 It also happens to be a hot topic as in addition to the staggering number of job cuts that have already taken place, an estimated 1 million additional job cuts <\/strong>are forecasted over the next year.<\/p>\n That will leave a lot of people vying for an increasingly limited number of job openings.\u00a0 Enter video resumes<\/strong>…a market still in it’s infancy…but a market with enormous potential.<\/p>\n Let’s say I posted a job opening in my local newspaper.\u00a0 I receive 20 paper resumes, along with one individual that instead, sent me a DVD.\u00a0 Given that scenario, what do you think is going to attract my attention…the stack of paper resumes or the DVD?\u00a0 It’s going to be the DVD…hands down…if for nothing more than curiosity.\u00a0 The point is that the unique form of media, all by itself, got my attention.<\/p>\n Now if that DVD contains a poorly shot video with audio I can barely decifer, the game is over.\u00a0 However, if it contains a nicely produced video (note I didn’t say professional, just nicely), chances are that person will stick in my mind and qualify for an interview…regardless of their qualifications…simply because that person has already shown me they are unique (i.e. they can potentially bring to the table something different than everyone else).<\/p>\n OK…so we’ve established that video resumes<\/strong> can be a powerful, attention getting tool in a competitive marketplace.\u00a0 But how can an entrepreneur profit from this?<\/p>\n Well, it’s fairly simple.\u00a0 You offer video resume services<\/strong>.\u00a0 You offer to shoot people on video, edit their video and produce their video into both a web-ready and DVD format (by the way, these are skills you can quickly master at either WebVideoUniversity<\/a> or ClubWVU<\/a>).<\/p>\n In addition, as a value added service, you can provide them a unique domain name and setup a simple web page that contains both their video resume and highlights from a traditional, paper-based resume.<\/p>\n Again, this is something that will make them standout to prospective employers.\u00a0 If I receive two paper resumes…one that lists a URL containing a video for the person and one that doesn’t…the one with the URL will have landed my attention.<\/p>\n So what could you charge for a video resume service<\/strong> like this?\u00a0 Well, the average cost of having a paper-based resume written runs between $150 to $300.\u00a0 So you could reasonably charge $300 for a video resume service like I described above.\u00a0 The key would be to make it simple for people; they pay, you show up and video tape them and the next day their video resume (and web site) are done and ready to go.<\/p>\n I have no doubt that out of everyone who reads this, maybe one or two will take action on my suggestions (that’s just the way the world works).\u00a0 But those who do act will make money.\u00a0 So if that happens to be you, drop me a line…I’d like to hear…and share…your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems for the past week I’ve written around a common theme: unique ways can anyone can start or expand a business with web video. And continuing with that, today’s topic is video resumes.\u00a0 It also happens to be a hot topic as in addition to the staggering number of job cuts that have already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}