Elle Woods was ahead of her time when she sent a video admissions essay for a spot in Harvard Law School, class of 2004. Twenty years later, it looks like traditional written CVs could be a thing of the past, as video-sharing platform TikTok rises as a new player in the job recruitment process.
'Hope hiring' is when you create a list of the skills you think are needed to get the job done, and when someone ticks those boxes you give them an offer and hope it works out, says former Xero MD Trent Innes.