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      Executive Assistant Interview

      Apr 19, 2016
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      London, England
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Marks & Spencer (London, England) in Mar 2016

      Interview

      Was put forward for a speculative interview by my recruitment agents. There was no specific role that they were interviewing for, I believe they were seeing what the market was like at that time. It took a while to get a time confirmed, but eventually I was able to go in. I met with an HR manager and one of the senior EA's. They were very pleasant and I enjoyed the interview. Unfortunately that where the positives end. The interview was at beginning of March and here we are 7 weeks later and still no feedback. I have chased my agents many times who in turn have asked repeatedly for feedback from M&S and all they get is "We'll look into it". For such a iconic and well known brand I'm shocked at such a useless process. It's fine if they didn't want to peruse my application but at least say that! I've seen better interview courtesy and feedback in pretty much every other interview I have attended. I was expecting much more from M&S. If this is how they treat perspective employees that presumably they want to impress then I would hate to know how they treat actual employees.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Asked the usual questions: Tell me about your background, What do you know about M&S etc. Conversation was quite casual. Gave me a task to do in 15 mins involving key EA / PA tasks eg how to manage a schedule and a last minute meeting with senior level management.
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