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Actually... not a fan of the name CandidEight.  The term "candidate" stirs up in the mind political figures, not so much professionals.

I also think the use of "eight" meaning 8 questions is limiting.  Why only 8 questions?  Why not more?  Why not less?  Why not as many as people want, whether that be practicing one question that is a tough one every time, or many questions?  The number 8 for you is only a gimmick and while gimmicks aren`t necessarily bad things, they don`t get you as far as good content will.  Don`t limit your content because of a number.

I like CandidEight because it`s clever.  I just don`t think it fits.

Actually, there`s a bigger need that doesn`t seem to be met that I`m familiar with, and that`s the whole idea of job interviews. There ought to be a way to learn how to do those interviews better. Problem would be how to make money at it, though. So maybe scratch that.....

Actually CampSteve,  with the new direction the idea has taken by narrowing, the name would probably need to change to reflect "mock" interviews or interview practice so some brainstorming is in order.

CraigL, you mentioned doing interviews better, the site would definitely help the interviewee get better and the interviewers could definitely use the site to get better by seeing how people react to different questions. There could be a forum for HR types and they could help by offering the questions. There are many possibilities. Check out the links in my last couple of posts. This could work.

So far the idea is to have a site that people come to to learn to interview better, be it job interview, college entrance, maybe even pitching a sales script. They would upload their videos to Youtube (thereby saving storage and bandwidth on the site), post them to the site, and then be voted on by the community. The questions would be posted by the users. Contests would be ran monthly to award the best video. There would need to be a very active forum for interviewers and interviewees also.

Am I getting close?



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Get Out of Debt

I like the general idea, it seems the "job interview" part is the setback. What about more of a type of audition? For talent scouts perhaps for look alikes? Or, you could offer specialized search services depending on the clients needs, sticking with the interview type questions, the video etc. but more specialized to what the client wants.




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LauraJean
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Hey laurajean, In just a few short posts the original idea has changed to more of a social site whos purpose is to help people become better at interviewing. You would post a video of yourself answering interview questions and the community would comment and vote on how well you did. You would view videos and get  ideas on how to better answer certain questions. There would be forums to ask and answer questions and professional interviewers would log on to help. As CampSteve said, if the focus is on helping people learn to interview better, the employers will follow.Keep the comments coming.

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Get Out of Debt

Wow! This is a great idea. Me being a college student I think it would definitely help me with my interviewing skills. And I`m not the only college student that believes this. Maybe you can have a more focused niche geared towards college students in particular. Students are more into the social networking thing anyway. I think you should definitely have a list of guides like what to dress, formatting your resume, how to respond to certain questions, etc. Anyway I`d give the site an A plus as far as usefulness.

Thank you for the comments. College students will be a big part of my target demographic. The site will feature articles as well as video sharing. I will have input from professional resume writers, image consultants, HR pros, etc. I have the basic layout of the site done, the videos can be posted, the forum is up. I should be able to go live in about a week. I`ll be sure to let you know when we start the beta testing of the site so that you can be one of the first. I have high hopes for this site.

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Get Out of Debt

See what I have so far InterViewables.com

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Get Out of Debt

Maybe a side-ways skewing of the idea...

How about a `presentations development` and practice site?

This could be for job candidates, sales-folk, presenters, lecturers, seminar folk, and so on....

Just a thought...

Nick
BAM

Interesting concept: "Test run your PowerPoint presentation." LOL! Can you imagine some of the commentary? I dunno...thinking about it, people likely wouldn`t put up a presentation. Fear of public-speaking is already bad enough.