Your time management skills may also be tested through an e-tray
exercise at an assessment centre day, through a personality questionnaire or through gamification, an approach to graduate recruitment in which you are asked to play an online game in order to show your responses in different situations.
James: I completely agree and it was always a frustrating part of looking at a group
exercise at an assessment centre when you had candidates that you knew were great but they just didn't speak.
Not exact matches
Our tips on how to prepare for the case study
exercise will help you show graduate recruiters
at your
assessment centre how well you could perform in the job.
The
exercises and tasks you'll face
at an
assessment centre will vary depending on the employer, and many employers change the structure of their
assessment day every year or so.
At assessment centre there is an e-tray
exercise, group presentation and then an individual presentation on a company you feel KPMG could help.
In most recruitment scenarios you don't meet the other candidates but
at assessment centres not only do you meet them but you may be asked to participate in a group
exercise where you are competing directly with them.
Once you're
at the
assessment centre, you could show the recruiter that you possess these skills through your behaviour in the
exercises or the examples you draw on in your interview.
Whether tackling aptitude tests or group
exercises, a can - do attitude gives the graduate the edge
at assessment centres.
Try to find out which of the three types of group
exercise you'll be given — go to our employer hubs to use our Inside Buzz reports from trainees to hear how they succeeded
at assessment centres (and they obviously did: they're in the job now).
Representatives from these sponsor employers were present
at the
assessment centre and there was quite a bit of opportunity to speak to them outside of the
exercises.
At an
assessment centre, creativity and imagination are more likely to be tested with problem - solving
exercises.
Recruiters will analyse your communication skills in various ways
at assessment centres, for example by asking you to give a presentation, describe a piece of visual information such as a plan or complete a group
exercise.
Many careers services also run practice
assessment centres or group
exercises, so see what is available
at yours.
At an
assessment centre, analytical skills are most likely to be tested via a case study
exercise, either in a group or individually.
All graduates
at the
assessment centre complete all of the
exercises and finish off by writing a business report of their recommendations from the earlier case study.»
The
assessment centre is partly a social
exercise, so do chat with the other candidates
at coffee breaks and over lunch.
Kim Brumley, resourcing manager (associate director)
at BNP Paribas Real Estate, says: «Our
assessment centres start off with a group
exercise, which is a bit of fun, helps to break the ice and makes the graduates feel
at ease.
Some employers use a recruitment process for their internship schemes and programmes that mirrors recruitment for their graduate schemes, and your internship interview could form part of an
assessment centre at which you'll also face tests and group
exercises.
«There's a common misconception among graduates
at assessment centres that it's all about talking, especially in group
exercises,» she says.
An in - tray
exercise might be one of the tests you'll have to complete
at an
assessment centre.
So, you'll be offered some dates to choose from, come along to an
assessment centre, and that's the final stage of the process, and
at the
assessment centre, there will be a role play
exercise with some reflection involved with that, an interview, and a group task.
We cover psychometric testing,
assessment centres, job interviews, group
exercises, presentations, if it's involved in the process we cover it, and look
at top tips, insider secrets, and what you need to do stand out from the crowd and get the job.
Thinking about, as you mentioned, the weighting for the different
assessment aspect
at the
assessment centre, are you experiencing they're all weighted equally, or is there more weighting given to, maybe, the group
exercise, or the interview, or does it just depend on the company and what's more important for them?
A lot of the time you will have already completed psychometric tests by the time you get to an
assessment centre, but some companies make them an early part of the
assessment centre exercises, so it's worth considering that you may have to undertake them
at this point in the process.
Group
exercises have become a mainstay of any graduate
assessment centre because they allow you to be examined on various skills
at once.
Denise is an award winning career coach, best - selling author, and chartered psychologist, and she shares her experience of how to impress
at all aspects of an
assessment centre, from the group
exercises, through to presentations and face to face interviews.
If you are successful
at interview then you will be invited to attend an
assessment centre which will include a number of individual and group
exercises as well as an interview with a Director, all assessed against the NAO's graduate competencies.
Denise is an award winning career coach, best - selling author and chartered psychologist and shares her experience of how to impress
at all aspects of an
assessment centre, from the group
exercises, through to presentations and face to face interviews.
At the
assessment centre there is a group
exercise, a prepared presentation and two competency interviews.