What do you mean by different recruitment processes, if you don't mind me asking?Not saying this happened in the above circumstances, but there’s loads of times I have really wanted to someone to apply because they have impressed me in person, and then their application form just doesn’t come anywhere near to meeting to standard required.
also open day’s/careers events sometimes have different recruitment processes in place to a VS/TC, and so often people don’t meet the more stringent processes.