Speed dating – the new Hungarian way to do job interviews?

Popular Hungarian job search application Simple Job came up with a really creative idea to organise a collective interview session in the form of a speed dating session, HirBalaton.hu reports. At the speed interviews, each candidate could spend 10 minutes doing a job interview for a certain position at a certain place, then moved on to the next one.

Speed dating is not a new phenomenon. In our changing world, where people have no time for anything, people often opt for having 10 speed dates in one night instead of investing many hours into one date which might not go well after all.

However, have you ever heard about speed interviewing?

The summer season at Lake Balaton is always tough. This is the time when the cities around the lake get conquered by thousands of tourists, the bars and restaurants are operating on a full workload, and life generally gets a whole lot busier over there. It is no surprise that there has been a huge labour shortage for years during this time of the year, and

the food service industry is in desperate need for temporary workers for the summer months.

Simple Job (a job search app) came up with the brilliant idea of a collective speed dating for people looking for workers for the summer, and for people looking for summer jobs around Lake Balaton. The speed interviewing was held at Plázs, Siófok, and