No, that's not the question. The question is how on earth TUI was supposed to know that they would get more than 1000 applications when they are looking for 10-15 new FO's.
Still guys, the first part of the election prosess was pretty easy for TUI, as far as I've heard: several hundreds of applications are from european pilots who do not speak a scandinavian language. An other load of applications are from pilots not fulfilling the minimum requirements.
Still, after sorting these out, there should be plenty of applicationes left to make it all look like a lottery with a very few lucky winners.