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Updated May 16, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Summer Intern at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Posted May 16, 2012
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2.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Washington, DC (took 5 days)
I got in touch with a friend who works at CSIS and asked about the best way to get your foot in the door. She passed my resume along to two programs that I was interested in. One of the programs emailed me almost immediately and asked if I would be interested in a summer internship with them and if I could speak with them in the next 4 days. We had a brief phone interview where they asked me to talk them through my resume and what I was working on at my current job. I had an offer in my inbox within 3 days.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Summer Intern at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Posted Feb 14, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Washington, DC (took 3 weeks)
Few weeks after I applied for the summer internship program online, I got an email to schedule a phone interview. The interview was a conference call with me and two mid-level staff persons. It was a typical interview to talk about why you are interested, what makes you a good candidate, etc. They also provided good answers to the questions I had about the company. The interview was informal, relaxed, and friendly.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Internship at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Posted Aug 23, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Washington, DC (took 4 days)
I applied for a job in November and was declined because I was still in school. I followed up to ask if there was anything I could to improve my candidacy and program coordinator told me that I should come to DC to do informational interviews since I was finishing school in Chicago. I did, and emailed her like 5 months later. I had the informational interview, it went well. I later emailed her in may and asked her to review my cover letter for the internship application. She immediately told me she needed an intern I was interviewed over the phone on Friday and got the position on Monday.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Research Assistant at Center for Strategic and International Studies
Posted Dec 5, 2009
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2008 in Washington, DC (took a day)
I sent in my resume and cover letter, and heard back two weeks later. (The announcement had been up on the site for a week or two before I sent in my materials.) It was right around Christmas time, so the timeline might be skewed from their normal process.
The staffer doing the hiring asked for three writing samples, which I sent along via email. I never heard back from the organization after sending these in.
I have been told by a friend who works at the Center that the organization has been getting upwards of 500 applications per position for many of their research assistant positions, and that many of these have been filled without announcements or by moving up interns or bringing back former interns. Hard place to get into, at least if you haven't done the internship first.
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