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Updated Jan 30, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Associate Recruitment Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Jan 30, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 1 week)
You are initially contacted on the phone for a telephone interview, they ask you why you would like to go into recruitment and what motivates you. Then if you pass this stage you are invited to an assessment day. You have to perform a group task where you have to think of a business plan (dragons den structure) and present it as a group. Then a role play of being a recruiter, selling a candidate to a client. If successful you get invited to a one on one interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Presentation.
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Graduate Recruitment Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Jul 9, 2011
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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 Jul 2011 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 weeks)
initially had a telephone interview which was then followed by a group assessment and then a 1.1 interview with the manager, the approach was very friendly and progressive much easier than interviews i have been on before. the telephone interview was pretty straight forward asking why you want to go into recruitment what you know about the areas hays work in and then one competency based question which was describe a time when you have had to use entrepreneurial flair. the group assessment again was straight forward, i beleive they were looking to see who contributed to the group when it was time to ask questions, and then you had a group exercise where you had to pretend you were going to open a sandwich shop and they were going to asses how feasible your idea was for investment. the final interview was quite relaxed , he wanted to know what i learned at university and what i though recruitment involved.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Feb 16, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 (took a day)
The personnel was very friendly and gave me a lot of information
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Jul 28, 2010 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2008 (took 2 months)
Uses of psychometric assessment to complement the interview process plus mock case study presentation of an actual client case to test knowlege, skills, client relationship handling and presentation
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, a Presentation, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test and a Background Check.
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Recruitment Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Jul 15, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2008 (took 3 months)
They found me through Monster and called me initially to promote the job. Following this I had 2 telephone interviews with the same person about a week apart (this was also the person who called me in the 1st place!!). I was told I was through to the face to face interview but had to wait nearly a month for this to take place. This was with the permanent recruitment manager and temporary recruitment manager. I was told a few days later that I was through to the next interview. A 2 week wait for this interview which was with the permanent recruitment manager again and this time the regional manager. Again went well, the NEXT interview was with the regional manager again and the regional director who seemed to hate graduates and gave a big grilling on whether I could manage a full time job after just coming out of university!! - This is a graduate job by the way!! - Then, was told it went well but had to wait another 2 weeks for the actual decision. When I went in and was told I got the job I was given a start date nearly 4 weeks away from then.
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Negotiation Details
Nothing to negotiate.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and a Background Check.
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Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Jul 2, 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 Sep 2008 (took 3 days)
Referred by a friend who was vacating the role. The position was working in a small team, located away from the head office. The hiring process was informal with two interviews and a meet the team session. There were some behavioural type questions combined with standard questioning. The management appeared to be very welcoming during this process.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Consultant at Hays plc
Posted Mar 4, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2010 (took 1 week)
There were 2 interviewers who first asked me for information which was not on my CV, then proceeded to bombard me with brainteasers, which made me feel particularly uneasy. The interviewers seemed relaxed enough, and were friendly but still offered me very little support in answering their strange questions. Applicants should be ready to consider the question form every possible angle and think outside the box.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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