Personal finance site Moneysupermarket.com has welcomed five new specialist IT recruits to the company following an innovative recruitment process.

Candidates whose CVs passed initial screening were asked to make a video outlining their suitability for roles.

Those making it through to the next stage had video interviews on Google+, using Hangout, the social network’s group video chat application.

Alan Cairns, the company’s HR director, tells Recruiter why the company wanted to do something different in the recruitment process:

Anna Armstrong, a recruitment adviser at the company, describes to Recruiter what it was liking using video chat for recruitment:

Read more about Moneysupermarket.com’s innovation in the next issue of Recruiter, out 2 November.