A recruiter reviewing your video submission is checking three things: that you are the real person behind the application, that the knowledge in your answer is your own, and that your spoken language fits what the role needs. Camera quality is almost never one of them. The content and the delivery decide it, not the resolution. And most candidates put their effort into exactly the wrong part. Why do companies ask for a video at all? The first reason is security. A video confi

Recruiters do not browse LinkedIn looking for interesting people. We run a filtered search, and the results of that search are the only candidates who exist for that role. If your profile does not contain the words the search was built from, you were not rejected. You were simply not there. That distinction matters more than anything else you will ever write on your profile. So what does a real search look like? A search starts with a role, never with a candidate. The role co

Your CV has one job, and it is not getting you the job. It opens a door, nothing more and nothing less. Most CVs fail at that door not because the person is unqualified, but because whoever reads it does not know the field well enough to work out that they are. And that reader is a generalist far more often than candidates imagine. What is your CV actually for? A CV buys you a conversation. That is the entire return on it. The interview is where you get hired, so everything t