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Lesley Curwen looks at the fast-changing process of getting hired for a job

Lesley Curwen looks at the fast-changing process of getting hired in companies, big and small and asks will the face to face interview survive?

The face-to-face interview can be life-changing.  
But it comes with risks attached, of  bias on the part of the interviewer, or nerves on the part of the candidate.  
Lesley Curwen looks at the fast-changing process of getting hired in companies, big and small.
Large companies are increasingly using recruitment tools including artificial intelligence to weed out the weakest candidates, in order to find the right candidate for the right job. But there is resistance in some quarters from some small employers  who believe in the old ways of sifting through CVs by hand to produce a short-list.  
So can the traditional face-to-face interview survive longterm? 

Producer Smita Patel 
Editor Penny Murphy

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