Founded by a guy named Mark Newman when he was just 20 years old and fresh out of Westminster college in Salt Lake City, HireVue provides one-way video interviews where candidates respond to pre-set questions without a live person on the other side.

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He has also courted the unions and party members who, together with the MPs at Westminster, make up Labour's electoral college.

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The college is looking at proposals to shed staff as a result of the merger between Imperial College, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith.

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