There's more than one way to recruit
I am rather mystified by both Mr Sitch’s reluctance to engage with speed recruitment and by his assertion that this is an outmoded and discredited process (Inside Housing, letters, 25 June).
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To take the latter point first speed recruitment is a relatively new approach. Like speed dating it does not exist to provide a scapegoat for failure some way down the line. Its purpose is to expose potential employees to a variety of individuals representing the range of people that a potential employee would expect to engage with as part of their job role.
This provides an opportunity for an organisation to assess a wider range of skills than might be possible at a formal interview where there might be only three people assessing skills, knowledge and abilities from a more limited perspective. I can see no justification for his assertation that it is a process that seeks to humiliate and degrade applicants.
I know a number of organisations which have made very successful appointments involving this method of recruitment. And as for being bureaucratic, it is indeed the opposite bringing a new approach and freshness to what might otherwise be regarded as outmoded interview practices.
Nigel Hunt, Harrogate