Recruitment of interviewers responsible for hiring 15,000 volunteers for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games began this week and continues until 7 December.

Neil Campion, the Games general manager of volunteering, tells Recruiter the Games organisers are looking to recruit 300 volunteer interviewers to interview the Games volunteers over 38 weeks between April and December 2013.

“We want people with good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills. We want people who can work in a fast-moving environment, think on their feet and make quick decisions,” says Campion.

Campion says that although the ideal candidate would have a recruitment or HR background, this is not essential and applicants also include people with experience of mentoring, coaching and training, as well as people with leadership skills. Many people, such as counsellors, will also have valuable experience of face-to-face interviews, he says. “I am comfortable that those without a recruitment background will have the right skills."

He says he has worked to ensure that the selection process for volunteer interviewers was open, and not just to people from an HR or recruitment background, pointing out that interviewing for volunteers lasts only 20-25 minutes and the people wanting to work at the Games are volunteers. “It is a very different process to recruiting paid staff,” says Campion.

Campion adds that he also recognises that those working in recruitment “don’t have much time” to volunteer their services.

Campion says there will be opportunities for 120 of the interviewers to get involved in training the Games volunteers, either providing the training itself or working in a support or admin role.