Can you offer a candidate just by Video alone?

Video (Face Time, Skype, Google Hangouts) is becoming more and more common in the interview process. 

I have increasingly interviewed candidates via video who are based in Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and New Zealand (to name a few). Experienced sales people either looking to return to the UK after a few years seeing life on the other side of this planet. Likewise people looking to start a new life in a new country. 

Naturally they would like to have already secured a job prior to taking the plunge across the pond. 

However is video interviewing enough to offer and indeed accept an opportunity? Agreeing to work at a company who's building you have never been to... or indeed bringing on a candidate you have not physically met? 

In my opinion it is important to move with the accepted wider consensus. The quality and effectiveness of video calling is improving all the time. You can still get a great idea of body language, excitement and gravitas even virtually. 

We even have an office in Birmingham who register and interview candidates over video. 

Technologies allow companies to engage and communicate with millions of people from one location. Becoming one of the most effective marketing tools of the 21st century. Why not use this same technology to meet and interview people previously out of reach? 

As the article states the rise of video interviewing is gaining momentum!

VIDEO TECHNOLOGY: REINVENTING THE INTERVIEW

"The rise of video interviewing is an interesting example of the difficulties and advantages of disrupting long-entrenched recruiting behaviours.

The recruitment industry takes a while to embrace new technology and the idea of using video to enhance parts of the traditional interviewing process is certainly not new. In its annual member survey in late 2016, The Forum for In-house Recruitment Managers (The FIRM) revealed that the use of video interviewing among members had grown from 22% in 2014 to 31% in 2016".