CareerTours, the fastest growing online recruiting company known for audio & video career “tours” has announced it has acquired an interest in WorkBlast.com, an innovator and industry leader in video resumes. CareerTours will now host more than 15,000 Audio and Video CareerTours on WorkBlast.com.

Career seekers, who can currently create video resumes on WorkBlast’s website, will now be able to learn about career opportunities by viewing video messages (career tours) from organizations with positions to fill. CareerTours.com currently hosts over 15,000 Audio and Video CareerTours that give job seekers an idea of what it is really like to work at an organization.

WetFeet.com (www.wetfeet.com), the leading career resource for job candidates and professionals to research companies, industries and careers, is the first site of its kind to offer a new service that enables companies to recruit top candidates through state-of-the-art, Web-based streaming audio-video content. Corporations seeking to extend their online recruitment efforts now have an expanded Internet tool to reach job seekers through a live-action, video format.

“We’re providing this streaming audio-video technology to give both consumers and corporations the most complete company profiles available online,” Steve Pollock, President of WetFeet.com said. “Now anyone who visits WetFeet.com gets an invaluable visual insight into a company without having to visit the corporate headquarters or have a conversation with a company insider.”

WetFeet.com’s video series adds a new dimension to its extensive company, industry and career profiles, providing job seekers with an additional perspective into the companies they are researching and evaluating that they could not get on their own. By clicking on links for Mitchell Madison Group/USWeb/CKS and Fallon McElligott, WetFeet.com visitors can view video presentations ranging from three minutes to one hour on corporate culture and lifestyle, company tours, employee perspectives and example interviews.

“Fallon McElligott prides itself on delivering heart-stopping creative work to our corporate clients. To attract the best people, our recruiting strategies must be just as innovative and impactful,” Carey Moe, human resources, Fallon McElligott, said. “WetFeet.com has built an incredible reputation among job seekers as the go-to site for researching companies and preparing for interviews. Our WetFeet.com video is state-of-the-art recruiting and gives us a chance to take candidates inside our agency in a way that text alone cannot.”

Jobster, an online job board, is teaming up with social-networking site Facebook to launch a career site featuring video résumés in March. Vault.com another job board, concluded its first video-résumé contest last week, its prize a shot at (what else?) an investment-banking job. Smaller players 62ndview, HireVue and Resumevideo are all launching widely this spring. Workplace bloggers speculate that YouTube plans to start its own video-résumé channel, although the company is noncommittal. Says Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster: “I can see a day when video as part of the résumé is the norm.”

Job seekers aren’t waiting. On YouTube, there are already 1,590 entries listed under résumé. Not all are what you would call serious (”After losing his powers at the end of X-Men 3, Magneto is forced to apply for a job at the local Starbucks”). The best ones, though, are smart, colorful and effective. Benjamin Hampton, a recent graduate of Washington State University in Pullman, posted a 5 1/2-min. video on YouTube last fall, thinking it would be something different to send to employers. (To view Hampton’s video résumé, go to TIME.com. With his brother at the camera, the résumé “took me 45 minutes to film and 30 minutes to edit,” says Hampton, 23. But that was enough to impress Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. The public relations firm interviewed him–in person–a short time ago.

New HR media has opened its virtual doors and will begin offering services designed to help corporations and HR managers amplify their online recruiting strategies via online video. Offering a full line of corporate video production services - New HR Media is actively developing strategies focused on the developing and deploying online video recruitment campaigns for companies of all sizes. The explosion in online video has created new opportunities for recruiters to transcend their culture and opportunities at a higher level. Leveraging online video, companies can now connect with potential candidates on a more personal level, providing more transparency into their organizations and ultimately leading to more efficiency in their recruitment efforts.

With the current competitive landscape of the employment market and the continued difficulty companies face with employee retention, corporate video recruitment is providing an attractive opportunity. The potential is vast. Companies are quickly adopting the new medium as a key component of their online recruitment strategies.

For more information, contact New HR Media today.