8:12Kaiser Woodland Hills employee stories
HealthcareSeveral staff, one visit, one film. The long cut lives on the careers page and the short ones go out on LinkedIn.
Employee testimonial videos
Your own people describing the job honestly. It is the only recruiting asset a candidate believes, and the only one your competitors cannot copy.
Filmed across four Kaiser Permanente medical centres and for Kern County. Interviewed, never scripted. Or build your own estimate in two minutes.
Kaiser Permanente
Employee work we have shipped
Staff talking about their own teams, filmed where they actually work.
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5:25Kaiser Fontana family medicine
DepartmentA single department speaking for itself. Candidates are choosing a team, not an employer brand, and this is what that looks like.
4:29Kaiser High Desert team film
LocationLocation matters in hiring. This one sells the place as much as the job, which is the point when you are recruiting into a harder market.
5:00Kern County staff stories
Public sectorPublic sector hiring against private sector salaries. The employees make the case that a job advert cannot.
How an employee story day runs
Six steps from scope to delivery, and about four weeks from filming to the final cut.
Scope and shortlistWe agree who you are trying to hire, then help you pick employees who will speak well. Tenure and seniority matter far less than candour.-
Consent and paperworkEvery employee signs a plain-English appearance release before the day, and anyone who would rather not appear simply does not. Nobody is volunteered by a manager.
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Location and scheduleYour floor, your site, your break room. We book short slots so nobody loses a working day, and we scout the sound before we commit to a room.
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FilmingOne crew, half a day for three to five people. Interviews plus b-roll of the teams at work, which is what makes the film feel like the place.
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Edit and reviewYou review a cut, HR and comms review it together, and every employee sees their own section before it goes anywhere.
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Deliver and protectThe careers page film plus vertical cuts for LinkedIn and job ads. Raw footage stays with us, access limited to the people you name.
Which employee film do you need?
Four formats, and most HR teams buy two of them.
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Single employee story
One person, one honest account
- Length
- 1 to 2 min
- Runs on
- Job ads, LinkedIn, careers page
- Cost
- $3,500
Batch day
Three to five employees in one visit
- Length
- 1 to 2 min each
- Runs on
- A whole careers page in one shoot
- Cost
- $8,500–$15,000
Culture film
The team as a whole, not individuals
- Length
- 2 to 3 min
- Runs on
- Employer brand, campus, events
- Cost
- $12,000–$18,000
Recruitment ad cut
The same interviews, cut for paid
- Length
- 15 to 60 sec
- Runs on
- LinkedIn, Indeed, Meta
- Cost
- $750 each
Batching is the whole trick. Five employees filmed on one morning fills a careers page for the price of one and a half separate shoots, and every job-ad cut afterwards comes out of footage you already own. Ranges follow our pricing page.
What employee testimonial video production means here
Employee testimonial video production is the filming of your own staff describing what the job is actually like. It covers single employee stories, batch days that fill a careers page in one visit, culture films that speak for a whole team, and short cuts built for job adverts and paid recruiting.
Candidates have learned to discount employer branding, and they are right to. What they have not learned to discount is a person who sounds like they are telling the truth, including the parts that are hard. So we interview rather than script, we let people say the job is demanding, and we cut the answer that sounds like them rather than the one that sounds like the careers page. A film with one honest sentence in it outperforms a polished one every time.
1Who is it for?
Health systems and hospitals, public sector employers, manufacturers and skilled trades, professional services firms, and anyone hiring against a better-paying competitor.
2What do you get?
One careers page film plus individual cuts and vertical versions for job ads, with raw footage archived and access limited to the people you name.
3How long does it take?
About four weeks from filming to the final cut. Filming is half a day for three to five employees.
Every employee film we make
Six formats, and most HR teams buy two of them.
What employee testimonial videos cost
Real ranges rather than a call for a quote. Half a day covering three to five people is the unit everything is built from.
| Package | Typical range | What it covers |
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| Single employee story, half day | $3,500 | One interview, b-roll, one master plus cutdowns |
| Batch day, three to five employees | $8,500–$15,000 | Back-to-back interviews at one site, an edit each |
| Culture film from a batch day | $12,000–$18,000 | The combined film plus individual cuts |
| Second site, same project | $6,000–$8,000 | An additional shoot day at another location |
| Job ad and social cuts | $750 each | Vertical and short cuts from footage already shot |
| Multi-site employer brand programme | $18,000–$25,000 | Three or more locations filmed across one campaign |
Building your own scope? Pre-production runs $1,000 to $1,500, a shoot day $6,000 to $8,000, and editing $2,000 to $4,000 per finished film. Cutdowns are $750 each. These match our pricing page and budget estimator.
Why employees agree to do it with us
Nobody is volunteered
Every person signs a release in advance and anyone who would rather not appear simply does not. A reluctant employee on camera is worse than no film.
We interview, we do not script
Staff reading HR copy back to camera is the single most common way this format fails. We ask questions and cut to what they said.
Honest beats polished
We keep the sentence where someone says the work is hard. Candidates trust the film more because of it, and they self-select better.
Short slots, not lost days
Twenty minutes per person, booked around the work. Nobody spends a day waiting to be filmed.
One visit fills a careers page
Five people in one morning gives you a combined film, five individual cuts and a year of job-ad creative.
Kaiser has done it with us four times
We have filmed employee and recruitment stories across four Kaiser Permanente medical centres, plus Kern County.
Testimonial pages teams use next
The rest of the testimonial cluster, and where each format sits.
Testimonial video production
The full service page: formats, process and pricing.
Customer testimonial videos
The external version, aimed at buyers.
Testimonial video ads
The same interviews, cut for paid hiring.
Healthcare recruitment videos
The clinical version, for hiring physicians.
Video case studies
The longer film with results on screen.
Testimonial video cost
Every format with its real range.
Where we film
Irvine Los Angeles San Diego San Jose San Francisco New York and nationwide for multi-site systems. Back to all industries.
What clients say about working with us
Kaiser Permanente, Kern County, CSU Channel Islands and Optum have all put their own staff in front of our cameras.
They impressed us with prompt responses, ensuring we met all filming objectives without missing a beat. The quality fully met my expectations.
7 Hills Productions went above and beyond in terms of quality, professionalism, responsiveness, and timeliness. They captured our vision perfectly.
They did an amazing job providing a great product. Very easy to work with, we decided to keep working with them for a year-long campaign.
Employee testimonial video FAQs
How many employees can you film in a day?
Three to five in half a day, and up to eight or nine in a full day. Each person needs about twenty minutes on camera plus b-roll of them working.
Do employees have to be scripted?
No, and they should not be. Staff reading HR copy is the most common way this format fails. We interview with agreed questions and cut to what they actually said.
What if an employee does not want to appear?
They do not. Everyone signs a release in advance and opting out costs nothing. A reluctant person on camera undermines the whole film.
What does an employee testimonial video cost?
A single story filmed locally is $3,500. A batch day covering three to five employees is $8,500 to $15,000, which fills a careers page in one visit. Our pricing page and budget estimator have the full breakdown.
Can we use the footage for job adverts?
Yes, and it is the cheapest thing you will buy. Vertical and short cuts are $750 each from footage already shot rather than a separate production.
Should employees say the job is hard?
Where it is true, yes. Candidates discount employer branding automatically, and one honest sentence about the demands of the role buys back credibility for everything else in the film.
Do you film across multiple sites?
Yes. A second site is an additional shoot day at $6,000 to $8,000, and a multi-site employer brand programme runs $18,000 to $25,000.
Where do you film employee testimonials?
Across California and nationally. We are based in Irvine and film regularly in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and the Bay Area.
Who owns the footage?
You own the finished films and the licensed footage. We archive the raw material and project files, and access is limited to the people you name.
Start an employee story project
Tell us who you are hiring, how many people you want to film and roughly when. You get a written scope and a number back, usually the same day.
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