However, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) said inexperienced officers had been exploited by “very experienced” offenders amid flaws in recruitment which meant that governors were not able to have face-to-face interviews to select their own staff. Instead, they were recruited centrally through assessment tests and Zoom interviews.
The recruitment department for any sector or section is the PA of the manager of that sector or section. Buggery to centralised hiring.
Of course, this means terfing out all the power skirts. But clearly that’s not going to happen. Except, well, the companies that do so will prosper in a way that those which don’t won’t.
The lesson from this is death to HR.