The Recruitment Society’s event, held in London last week, entertained guests with African chants and US rock 'n’ roll as the team from Conducting Business demonstrated their new candidate assessment tool.   

Richard Jones and Adrian Bawtree want to set candidates music performance tasks to test communication, leadership and inter-personnel skills.

The musically minded pair composed the idea “over a beer or two" after meeting at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, said Adrian Bawtree. "We saw it as another way to take recruits out of their comfort zones and see how good a communicator they are."

The talk started with a series of relaxation exercises, including an audience medley of Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Oh When The Saints.

Volunteers then took turns using body language to convey emotions to the crowd –self conscious, shy, sexy – before the self-styled ‘Dogs Society’ planned and performed songs and chants, whilst the audience analysed their prospective qualities.