Season 7 is 'The Newbies' series of podcasts. The ELiYP team will be looking at the ins and outs of recruiting and integrating new employees into the business, together with identifying some legal pitfalls.

In this first episode, Employment Lawyers Simon Allison and Jack Boyle welcome a new colleague to engage in a discussion about the initial stages of a recruitment process, focusing on the application stage. They give some guidance on how to avoid discrimination and also some top tips around processing personal data. And in this episode, we discover who Jack doesn’t think could successfully apply for the job of Office Ninja (with apologies to Si’s Dad)…