I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Public Health Scotland (Glasgow, Scotland) in Nov 2023
Interview
2 stages- first there was a doc with 8 calculation questions (and creating one graph) that I had to submit within 1 week. Next was a MS teams interview with two senior information analysts. They mostly asked competency based questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions-
Describe yourself
Why do you want to work for PHS
They showed a graph (average hours worked by GP and Nurses) and asked to describe the trends in the graphs
What type of tools (R, microsoft excel) did you use to do the math problems in stage 1
What is your style of learning
If there was a difficult colleague, how would you handle them
I applied online. I interviewed at Public Health Scotland
Interview
The interview process included first submitting a CV and answers to questions like "Why do you want to work for PHS?". If successful, the next phase was an assessment based on GP summaries, which involved pulling numbers from an Excel sheet and then creating a chart in R or another similar software. Then the next phase is a formal interview which is competency-based, and they're looking for STAR method answers. They also asked about the chart created in the assessment, as well as an additional technical question based on a PHS publication.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most significant problem that PHS/NHS is faced with currently?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Public Health Scotland in Dec 2023
Interview
Online interview for less than an hour. It began with some administration, followed by technical and competency-based interview questions. Some of the technical questions related to the graph I made in the previous assessment stage.