What are the recruitment procedures for these programmes?
Rather than the traditional selection via CVs and letters of motivation, the process incorporates a certain number of tools and tests that aim to rationalise the companies’ identification of high profiles during the pan European recruitment drives with candidates of different nationalities and cultures. The first stage is usually the highly detailed online application form which may or may not include aptitude tests that are a primary eliminating factor. The candidates are then pre-screened during a phone interview, followed by a traditional face-to-face individual and/or group interview, held in one or several languages. After this stage, the remaining candidates then spend a day or two at an assessment centre, where around a dozen or so graduates are closely scrutinized for their performance during various assessment exercises.These exercises frequently include personality questionnaires, tests to measure their numerical, verbal and abstract thinking skills, role plays, case studies
