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Advisor at Corporate Executive Board
Posted May 26, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 6 weeks)
The interview process begins with a prelim 30-40 mins telephonic discussion to gauge the match and some competency based questions by the HR team. Within HR team there is a coordinator role that organizes and provide details of the interview. This coordination of hiring process is professional and works well until the final round.
The round two is a face-to-face competency based interview with someone in the line organizationand the HR. This part was also well conducted and professional. The time gap between these two rounds depends on the availability. Until this point I was not informed on which practice line I was being considered for.
Final round of interview consists of role play/ case study mix and competency based interview with hiring manager. CEB provides a presentation pack one needs to read through and present it in a role play to CxO. The good part of this round is that after every role play there is a feedback session. In my case it went very well.
While the concept is vert interesting this part of interview was not well organized overall. The hiring manager came late for interview, seemed to be playing the role of CxO even after the role play session was over and repeatedly dropping in sentences to the effect on who had the power in the office i.e. hiring manager. This did not make me feel welcome as a potential employee and made me wonder if I'd like to work for such a manager. Perhaps it reflected on my approach for the rest of the interview.
The outcome of this round was not provided for over a month by HR even after several mails and phone calls. Finally when I got hold of HR I was informed that while I was a fit for CEB overall my "impact" in first 15 minutes of interview was not as strong as hiring manager wanted. The HR promised to come back to me for a research oriented role that could be more suitable and have a final interview with hiring manager as I met all the other criteria. They never came back.
Tip1: The above is something one should keep in mind if you are interested and appearing for the interview. I took a slower approach since extent of being aggressive in the first meeting is cultural. It's a small detail that can be learnt quickly on the job but it clearly did not work for me in such a job market.
Tip 2: In the role play slide description CEB provides an example of slides one could cover. Seems like they prefer candidates to go through the same slide instead of other slides that the candidate might find more interesting. I enjoyed the final interview and it requires preparation.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Presentation.
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Marketing Associate at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Aug 5, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2008 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 1+ week)
Interview was very easy with simple questions on how would I sell A, B and C.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Development Associate at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 weeks)
Telephone interview was handled by a retained search firm based in Richmond who have impressed me with their level of professionalism throughout the process.
It is mandatory for all job applicants to take the 'Hogan' behavioural test, at least in sales anyway.
1.1 interview was with the Head of New Business Sales. Overall a very intellectually stimulating experience where abilty to sell and communicate at a high/strategic level is extensivley explored
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I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Research Associate at Corporate Executive Board
Posted Feb 22, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2+ weeks)
By all accounts mine was a singular experience and not that enjoyed by most joining CEB who have a fairly standard process. So if you want to know what a potential interview process with CEB is like this wont apply.
I had a fairly singular set of experience so missed most of the steps and generally was 1:1 interviews about what I had done and how I could help them to start a new business line.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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