Just received the email from the ALAEA, they have withdrawn their approval for the selection process. I feel this is both good and bad.
To do it properly and with no internal persuasion the whole saga should be given to an external HR company who deal with this stuff all the time. Surely that would help remove the bias decision making that seems to exist.
Instead of an expression of interest, make it a job vacancy with minimum criteria, and then send it all outside to a HR company that both the company and the ALAEA mutually agree on. Whoever is deemed to meet the criteria and makes it thru the interview etc get a spot.
It needs to be taken away from all the crap and the only way to do it is make sure that neither QF or the ALAEA have a hand in it.
Make it professional and watertight. The last round of selections was an utter joke. How can your superior score you when he is going for the job himself.