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Touch of video magic

‘I really want to be the world’s number one video interview provider’

When Jane Bianchini took the plunge to form her own job agency, she was already an accomplished recruitment executive.

She quickly developed a strong clientele, sourcing and screening executives for top-line IT jobs. Returns, however, were slashed as her clients demanded cheaper and cheaper rates. Take it or leave it, they said. Then they took their work in-house.

Confronted with these threats, Bianchini could either tough it out or totally re-engineer her company. Two years on, her revamped Alcami Interactive is expanding offshore after twice seeking funding from external investors. How? Well, she has gone from interviewing job applicants by phone to running a tech company with its own online interviewing platform. Job seekers record their answers to a handful of simple questions.

Bianchini named her company after a book by the noted novelist

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