Recruitment and selection process

Application

We will send you an email immediately after you have submitted your application to confirm our receipt of your application.

A member of our recruitment team will then review your application. Your application will be assessed against the skills and experiences that are required in order to successfully perform in the role. The information you provide throughout your application form and within the supporting statement section will be assessed.

We aim to ensure that you are promptly contacted once we have made a decision about your application.

If you are interested in applying for a vacancy, please use the online application facility available in Current vacancies. To assist you in your preparation, a copy of the application form (92kb, 8 pages) is available to download.

Assessment

If after reviewing your application we feel that you have demonstrated the skills and experience we are looking for, we will invite you to take part in the next stage of the assessment process.

We design the assessment process specifically for the role we are recruiting for. There are some common assessment exercises that we may ask you to complete:

• Telephone interview – we occasionally ask candidates to take part in a telephone interview prior to actually coming in and meeting us face to face.
• Face to face interview – no matter what role you have applied for you can expect to take part in a face to face interview. Your interview will be with a member of the recruitment team and the line manager. This will take the form of a competency-based interview that will seek to assess your experience across a range of competencies that are required in the role. We will be looking for clear examples of what you have done and how you did it in the past.
• We most often use at least one other assessment activity in addition to the face to face interview. This will be chosen by our recruitment team and again will seek to measure evidence of your skills across a range of competencies that are required in the role. Some examples of activities that we have used in the past include:
  • scheduling exercise
  • in-tray exercise
  • presentation
  • research exercise
  • written exercise
  • fact-finding exercise
  • occupational personality questionnaire

We will ensure that you are provided with all the information you need before your assessment to enable you to prepare.

After you have attended an assessment day with us we will ensure that we contact you in person to confirm our decision and provide you with feedback on your performance throughout the assessment process. We will also send you a written letter to confirm our final decision.

Contact

If at any point you have a question about your application please contact Barkers, our recruitment advisers, on 0845 330 9903.