Channel 5 wants to make a star out of you. They're doing a new show called 'The Interview' and it's about firms with recruitment and HR problems, and as long as you have a genuine job to offer and don't mind the process being filmed you're welcome to apply - e-mail Nicola.bullard@shinelimited.com and take it from there. Obviously, talk to someone media-savvy beforehand and try not to drop any clangers on camera, they'll come back to haunt you quite horribly and TV loves 'characters' who make fools of themselves on screen.
It's interesting that they're aiming this, according to Microsoft's bcentral site, at small firms wanting advice from HR experts (which you'll get if successful). Many small firms will be petrified by phrases like 'HR' - it sounds so much like something you'd find in a big concern with its own human resources department. The smaller trader is usually busy fire fighting to keep the core business afloat and never mind legal niceties like employment law. Perhaps one day the Government will realise that imposing the same legal framework on a five-person operation as a concern with 50 people in HR only works when said framework is really, really simple; it doesn't seem to be happening now, though.
