Short answer: Sam Nadler says clients usually get a CV, rate and experience, but a minute of video shows how a candidate speaks and thinks. Editing used to require video editors and took too long to do routinely.
Watch this answer from Episode 36 (starts at 2:01) · Episode 36 notes and transcript
From Episode 36: How We Built an AI Video Editor for Recruiters (Remotion + Claude + Codex), starting at 2:01.
Sam Nadler [2:00]: Alright. So just to jump in really quick, a little bit of context. As you know, at Ryz Labs, we help source and provide great candidates of all different types to our clients. Those candidates can be from an engineering background, a data background, project management, product management, whatever, you name it. We are interviewing and sourcing hundreds of thousands of candidates. One little kind of element that we liked to provide some of our clients when it made sense is a little sizzle reel of our of the candidate we're presenting. So, in general, when a client receives a list of potential candidates, they get their CV, the standard, their CV, etcetera, potentially their rate, their experience, their studies. All that is pretty typical. However, wouldn't it be nice to be able to see that candidate, to see them speak, to see their thoughts on certain problems, and just to give you get a little better interpretation or impression of that candidate if you could see a minute of them before you decide whether to interview them or not. So we've done this occasionally when we had, like, a pool of candidates that we wanted a client to review.
Sam Nadler [3:21]: However, the process took a really long time. We had to, leverage our video editors to edit the videos, and it just wasn't something that, we could do all the time. So I created a little tool that a lot gave our recruiters, who, I'm assuming most of them don't have any video editing experience, the ability to cut up these videos and be completely self sufficient, generate links to share with our clients. So, this is all theoretically powered by our Ntrvsta tool, which performs, AI interviews, both technical and nontechnical of candidates. So that's like, we have these videos of these candidates. This product just takes those videos and packages them up into a branded sizzle reel. So it's not fancy, but it puts the power of the video editing directly into our recruiters' hands. So as they prepare these candidate lists, then they can just ship off these videos when they feel it's appropriate. So it's just as simple as I hope you can see my screen. This highlight reel builder.
