Video the star for Moneysupermarket.com hires

Personal finance site Moneysupermarket.com has welcomed five new specialist IT recruits to the company following an innovative recruitment process.

Personal finance site Moneysupermarket.com has welcomed five new specialist IT recruits to the company following an innovative recruitment process.

Candidates whose CVs passed initial screening were asked to make a video outlining their suitability for roles.

Those making it through to the next stage had video interviews on Google+, using Hangout, the social network’s group video chat application.

Alan Cairns, the company’s HR director, tells Recruiter why the company wanted to do something different in the recruitment process:

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Alan Cairns

Anna Armstrong, a recruitment adviser at the company, describes to Recruiter what it was liking using video chat for recruitment:

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Anna Armstrong

Read more about Moneysupermarket.com’s innovation in the next issue of Recruiter, out 2 November.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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