EMS Department launches digital interview platform
SMART SOLUTION: More than 300 candidates from all over South Africa and Africa will be interviewed via the new platform.
Friday, 30 October 2020
Covid-19 restrictions have spurred the Emergency Medical Sciences Department to introduce a digital platform for conducting interviews with prospective students.
The department is employing a locally developed solution, which allows prospective students to do an online virtual interview, at their own time and place.
John Meyer, Interim Faculty IT Coordinator: Health and Wellness Sciences, says the platform eliminates the need for applicants to travel to the interview. It also reduces the resources required by the Department to sit through a face to face interview with each candidate.
“Not only will this save us significant time, but it also means that each candidate goes through exactly the same interview experience, consistently, and allows us to be able to automatically interview as many candidates as we require at any one time.”
More than 300 candidates from all over South Africa and Africa will be interviewed.
“We will also be using the platform for virtual clinical simulation and as a video portfolio of learning during the year,” says Meyer.
The platform is compatible with all mobile devices and uses very little data.
The students will have three days to start the interview and will have one hour to complete the interview.
“We are then able to review the video answers of each candidate and decide on the next step in the process. It enables us to do volume recruitment online and will assist us in accelerating the student placements according to our timeframes and requirements.”
Meyer added that the language unit played an important role in translation and ensuring that the English is pitched at the right level for the candidates.
Written by Ilse Fredericks
Email: Frederickskennediji@cput.ac.za
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