5mo
Thank you for your feedback. We are sorry to hear you came away from our placement student recruitment day feeling this way.
Our aim in all our recruitment activities is to ensure that candidates are given a fair opportunity to show their potential to work with us.
We have hosted software developer placement students for over 15 years and around 75% of students on our placements go on to take graduate roles with us. We are proud to offer the opportunities to students from a range of Universities and course types. However, over this period and due to the diversity of applications we receive, we have recognised the need to ensure that we don’t only hold an online interview, but that we offer the opportunity to come to our office, meet our developers and current placement students and spend time taking part in activities designed and delivered by internationally recognised agile practitioners. As these activities are ones we undertake with our own staff and also provide to other organisations on a paid basis, we intend for this to be an experience that would not normally be available to you.
We ensure all staff are trained in observing the behaviours, communication and capabilities across all attendees throughout the activities. There were 10 staff involved on the day with each staff member observing a maximum of 2 students at any one time. Staff then collaboratively consult over lunch, taking into account observations from both the larger and smaller group activities and the initial application, cover letter and CV, to ensure each candidate has been fairly considered. We do not provide a preference to particular personality types and the nature of the activities and their use in workplace environments means they are specifically designed to support mixed teams of individuals to ensure this is the case.
Our team takes the time after each recruitment event to give constructive feedback to each attendee ensuring they can take something away and to learn from the experience. We hope you received yours and found it useful, but if you would like any further clarifications please do not hesitate to contact us. We thank you for your feedback and will thoughtfully consider how this can help shape future events.
