We’re proud to announce that we have closed our 3rd round of funding, raising over £1.5 million! 🙌
These funds will be used to further develop Willo the most user-centric video screening software available.
Read our full press release to learn more 🚀✨
Interviewing candidates remotely for the first time? Here are 7 top tips from
@hrishiptweets
, Co-founder & CTO of
@Flexipletweets
. He's been hiring remotely for years and has offered to share his learnings with us which we are grateful for. 🙌
As we wrap up 2023, we’re taking a moment to reflect on a year of growth, exciting developments, & meaningful connections. It’s been a pleasure sharing so many of these moments with you.
Wishing our wonderful customers & community a
#HappyHolidays
& best wishes for 2024✨💜
Willo has partnered with
@treesisters
, an amazing charity to help deliver on this commitment. TreeSisters is funding the restoration of environments, biodiversity and communities within more than 10 major ecosystems around the globe.🌱
We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved since we launched Willo and would like to thank our customers around the world for adopting our platform.
We're very excited about what the future holds! 🚀
We are delighted to be working with the forward thinking
@PeterVardy
group to deliver an interviewing solution which is enabling them to continue operating remotely.
Their candidates are now benefiting from a unique, fun and flexible recruitment experience whilst at home.
A few of the clever ways that organisations use video interviewing to save time and hassle:
🧘 Employee Wellness
🛃 Pre-Employment Checks
🧐 Site Inspections
🤗 Customer Testimonials
👋 Exit Interviews
Unable to interview on-premises?
We have you covered with our video interviewing platform - built to work anywhere in the world, on any device.
Get setup instantly for free and see how easy and fast hiring at scale can be, even when working from home at
Announcing our $850k Seed Investment round, led by
@1818vc
. 🎉
To celebrate, we’re giving away a big ol’ box of Willo swag to a lucky retweeter.
Just retweet this to enter!
Last year
@Gartner_inc
reported more than 80% of business leaders say they’ve used video interviewing in recruitment – those that don’t risk being left behind.
It was great to chat to Sarah Williams at
@HRGrapevine
about how they can do it.
A Friday shoutout to our friends over at
@doist
and their excellent blog Ambition & Balance. A great read for making work more fulfilling, efficient and balanced 🧘
A lively discussion with
@dougwood87
&
@LevyRecruits
:
☑️ The power of asynchronous video
☑️ Removing the friction of unconscious bias
☑️ Categories video interview work best in
☑️ How to apply asynchronous video to engineering
Well worth a listen 🎧 👇🏼
We've introduced an updated look and feel for 2021, which reflects the amazing things people are doing with Willo.
We are, and always will be a people-first brand dedicated to creating opportunities for everyone, everywhere.
#branding
#NewYear
Our co-founder
@EuanACameron
joined career coach
@clarkeceres
this week to discuss starting a business during the pandemic, the benefits of video interviewing and top tips for candidates completing one.
🔈 Audio:
🎥 YouTube:
We're thrilled that we've just won the Momentum Leader Award for Winter 2023, as well as 7 other awards from
@G2dotcom
We couldn't do it without the support of our amazing customers, who voted us
#1
in the video interview category. Thank you for your loyalty and trust in us💜
Introducing our latest integration with
@Workable
! 🎉
We're a match made in heaven with this latest release, free to all Willo users from today.
Whether you're hiring 2 or 200 employees, it's the platform you need in your life.
Earlier this week we were lucky enough to welcome 3 new people to the team. 🎉
Emma, Tifany and Georgina will be working in our sales and success team to help customers build and develop incredible teams of people using Willo.
Today we're proud to be releasing our latest integration with Lever ATS. 🚀
@lever
is known for candidate experience and making recruiter’s lives easier with their applicant tracking software. We used this same ethos to build our
@G2CrowdReviews
award-winning interview tool.
It was amazing to hear from Alison at
@daytodayfin
- she was overrun with work and had an unmanageable amount of candidates. After switching to Willo she found the perfect candidate in a matter of days. 🧘
A
#remoteworking
success 🚀
Listen to our co-founders
@EuanACameron
and
@dougwood87
talk with recruitment expert Hung Lee, earlier today. A fun dive into the backstory of Willo, starting a business and what the next 12 months look like. 🎧
A reminder to any business struggling to interview during
#COVID19
- we are offering our video interviewing software absolutely free of charge.
Sign up at
Video interviewing is not just for junior roles. It can, and should, be used for c-suite hiring. It’s more efficient, fits everyone’s schedules, and purpose-built for including multiple stakeholders. 🤳
Read the full story:
Last week we spoke with
@christpetron
about hiring developers
#remotely
. Read how his innovative company
@plentyworks
use Willo to hire and deploy global software development teams in our latest case study:
"When I found Willo, it was a game changer."
We are delighted to be working with
@TheHalianWay
in the Middle East. They are now successfully interviewing and placing candidates across a number of IT roles virtually with Willo. 🤝
#partnership
Scorecards are coming 🚀
This highly-requested feature will be launching on our platform shortly & it’s going to take your candidate screening to a whole new level!
👩💻 A great way to hire collaboratively
⏰ Make smarter, faster & fairer decisions
📊 Compare candidates together
⚡ We are delighted to be powering the videos behind The Bickie. Special thanks to
@ticktock_pj
and team for making it happen. We are looking forward to getting daily
#inspiration
Willo Scorecards are now LIVE! 🚀🌟
Elevate your hiring game with our latest feature, designed to empower you in making confident & unbiased decisions. Making your
#hiringprocess
fair & consistent when it comes to evaluating candidates!
We caught up with Natalie
@beyondHRM
to discover how they are helping their clients recruit candidates more quickly and at less cost.
"A video gives the business a real flavour of the person." 🎬
Assessing candidates based on their CV is so 2020!
@dougwood87
is currently LIVE at
#HRTXlive
sharing some 🔥 tips on how to connect with top talent in a more human way.
#async
#hiringtips
An exciting announcement, we are now partnered with
@Greenhouse
🎉
This means users can now interview candidates without ever leaving Greenhouse, but still draw on Willo's powerful video interviewing technology to make it happen.
Thanks to the team who helped make it happen. 🤝
"Willo in the wild" - as parts of Europe begin to open up we hope to share some of these designs in our outdoor spaces soon. ☀️
We had fun creating these with our friends
@Jamhot
.
Woohoo, we won new badges in
@G2dotcom
Spring 2022 report! A LOT of work goes into achieving this from our product and support team, but the biggest shoutout goes to all our lovely customers 💜
.
@indeed
is the number 1 job site in the world. But with so many candidates it can quickly become overwhelming to manage the volume of applications.
Let Willo come to the rescue, in this tutorial we explain how to use video interviewing with Indeed.
Throwback to an amazing day with our development team in Kiev last week 👨🏼💻👩🏼💻 Our first signups can expect to be video screening candidates this summer.
#teamsuccess
We are working hard to support all our users during lockdown and continue to release new features. Last week we launched SMS invites. ✉️
With an open rate significantly higher than email Willo users hear from more candidates in much less time. SMS invites now free to all users.
Writing a CV can be a barrier to people with dyslexia before they’ve even entered the hiring process – it no longer has to be that way.
Find out why in the
@HuffPost
@HuffPostUK
The world’s fastest video interviewing platform
@WilloTalent
, announced that Jan 2020 was a record month in revenue & growth for the innovative start-up.
@scotent
provided more than £20k to help support the eco-friendly recruitment platform
#ScotInnovation
Great work
@schlaf
🙌🏼 We couldn’t agree more.
Video provides a much stronger opportunity to assess personality and cultural fit at scale compared to a cover letter or CV.
Try our video interviewing platform for free at
Reviewing over 100 intern applications tonight.
Asking the candidates for a "personal pitch deck" and a 2.5min video has helped me gather vastly more data points than a LinkedIn profile or resume could convey.
1000x more efficient and impactful. More companies should do this.
We have seen a surge in software development job interviews taking place lately. There are currently 37 roles across 4 continents listed on the platform.
If you are serious about discovering the best talent anywhere then create a free account at
Looking for a better way to hire? Willo can help...
✅ Reduce your time to hire by a third
✅ Candidates answer your questions on video
✅ Collaborate with colleagues and clients
✅ Your branding
✅ Available anywhere, on any device
✅ Free
Were planting 15,000 trees over the next 3 years and making every interview that takes place on Willo carbon neutral. 🌳
Willo users have already helped us plant over 4,649 trees and put us ahead of our target which is incredible.
⚡ Our Zap of the week: Bring video interviews to your CRM with
@MSDynCRMOnline
.
Keep everything in one place with Microsoft Dynamics and Willo by returning every video interview response to your CRM.
Get the free
@zapier
integration 🔌
⚡ Our Zap of the week: Make scheduling challenges a thing of the past with
@Calendly
.
With Calendly and Willo, you can easily automate the scheduling of next-stage interviews using Email by
@Zapier
.
Learn more with Hamish:
Some new brand work from the studio for Scottish tech company
@willovideo
-
With Willo's on-demand video interviewing platform now being used in over 100 countries - we powered up the brand to be the go-to interview platform for a remote first world.
Collect video responses to your questions whenever and wherever you need them. Willo is your always-on video interviewing platform. Because business never stops.
#businesscontinuity
#remotetools
#videointerview
We have observed a change in candidate behaviour over the past 2 weeks. 🤓Previously candidates would record their one-way interviews between 5pm and 9pm. This has now shifted and candidates are recording responses throughout the day; typically within 2 hours of being invited.
Here at Willo, we imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. 👩
Together with our customers, we're working towards a world of inclusive prosperity by breaking down barriers to employment. 🌐
#breakthebias
Unable to interview on-premises?
We have you covered with our video interviewing platform - built to work anywhere in the world, on any device.
Get setup instantly for free and see how easy and fast hiring can be, even when
#wfh
at
@hrishiptweets
@Ford
We thought so too but we have our first
#automotive
client using video interviewing - and using it effectively! Positive change 🙌🏼
⚡ Our Zap of the week: Make hiring your next employee a team effort and collaborate with others using
@usetwist
.
Review and feedback on candidates interviews within your team, without the need for always-on, real-time responses.
@zapier
integration 🔌
Did you know, Willo interviews already produce 93% fewer emissions than traditional face-to-face interviews? By planting trees we aim to restore even more of the planet for future generations. 👐
Wishing all our customers, colleagues, partners, investors and friends a fantastic festive season. ⭐️
Thank you for all your support this year ✨
#thankyou
Over the past year, the team at Sprigg in Glasgow have been using Willo to help grow their team with the right people, keeping up with new demand. 🥗 ☕
Read more in today's
@heraldscotland
Candidate experience is our top priority. That's why we ask every candidate about their experience at the end of the interview process. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Last month alone we collected 223 responses which are currently being analysed to inform our future product decisions.
In the wake of the 'great resignation' companies continue to grapple with challenges of
#hiring
the right skills. Read our latest story
@personneltoday
to explore the crucial role of rethinking
#diversityinhiring
as a key solution to
#staffretention
🌐💡
We had a lot of fun sponsoring the
@InhouseRecNet
Candidate Experience Conference this week. It was great to meet new and familiar faces in person and share how to build the best candidate experience in 2022. 💡
Everyday is
#EarthDay
! 🌎
Businesses can reduce carbon emissions by up to 93% by replacing traditional face-to-face meetings with video or virtual ones. It's a small change which can have a big impact. 🌱
📣 Client Announcement 📣
The team here at Willo® are happy to announce that last week we onboarded Hotjar as a client!
As long-time users of Hotjar's innovative solutions, what a full-circle moment this is! 🚀
#clientannouncement
#customercentric
#willovideo
🏆 Willo Video Interviewing is the
#10
product on Product Club today!
⚡️ Easily interview people remotely on video, for free.
🔗 Check it out today at
💕 Built with love by
@euan_cameron
#startups
I'm proud that
@willovideo
connected over 1,500 people (in 90+ countries) with opportunities last month 🧱
Each dot is a completed interview 😍
#makinganimpact
#startup
Hiring at mega-scale? This latest episode with
@HungLee
is a must-listen. 🚀
- How does the relationship between the hiring manager and recruiter change?
- What makes a good mega-scale project vs a bad one?
- What recruiter skills are needed to succeed?
Here at Willo, we imagine a world with equality for all genders - free from bias, stereotypes, and discrimination 👩
Together with our customers, we're working to break down barriers to employment so our world becomes more diverse, equitable, and inclusive 🌐
#EmbraceEquity