Sometimes the Best Ideas are the Old Ideas Just Repackaged

A new company, Ovia, hopes to leverage the internet to help recruiters find top talent:

http://gigaom.com/collaboration/ovia-asyncrhonous-video-interviews/

Using an asynchronous video approach, Ovia can enable candidates to submit video-based interviews to potential recruiters. Already with Fortune 500 customers, this young startup embodies what’s best about the internet technologies: applying them to age old problems. Finding and recruiting talent is a pain (and costly) especially when you have to fly candidates in from all over the place. This solution enables companies to leverage video (which has very established and proven technologies on the web) coupled with web-based software services to replace a lot of the antiquated methods of recruiting new talent.