I applied online. I interviewed at AGM Chelmsford (Chelmsford, England) in Jul 2015
Interview
This whole company is a sham. I applied online, as it was advertised as a marketing role, and was offered an interview. This was 5 mins long and consisted of the MD going through a generic, bragging powerpoint about how 'successful' the company was. There was no information about the job itself. I got a call an hour later saying he was really impressed with me (I barely had a chance to speak so this rang alarm bells), and I had an assessment day to attend the following day. I decided to do it because I'd just finished uni and really needed a job.
Turns out the 'assessment day' is literally being taken round to knock on people's doors and convince them to sign up for a charity subscription. Absolutely not marketing, it's door-to-door sales, and I could see why they were mysterious about the job itself. The manager who was taking me round was really patronising, asking ridiculous questions and basically saying my degree was worthless since he'd dropped out of school and was so successful haha. I quit the day after lunch because people were actually getting angry about being harassed (understandably) and I couldn't bear to be involved with it any longer, it was completely embarrassing. Unfortunately we were around a 30 minute drive away from Chelmsford where my car was so I had to wait around all day to get a lift back once they'd finished.
Terrible, deceiving company, literally couldn't have been any worse.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something about running out of washing up liquid in a restaurant (trick questions, every answer was wrong)
I applied online. I interviewed at AGM Chelmsford (Chelmsford, MA) in Feb 2015
Interview
It's not always quick and easy to get hired. The job interview process can be lengthy. Being interviewed once and getting a job offer is typically a thing of the past. Today, many companies have an involved interview process starting with screening interviews, which often take place on the phone, followed by in-person interviews, second interviews, and even third interviews.
In addition to a hiring manager, you make meet with managers, employees, and other staff. How hiring is handled depends on the employer and the systems they have in place for screening and evaluating potential new hires.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at AGM Chelmsford (Chelmsford, England)
Interview
Had an email and telephone conversation with the receptionist on the Friday. Came in and went on a wild goose chase for people to contribute to a charity named Independent Age, which started at 11:00 and finished at 19:00, for which none of the the local people have heard of before.
The "Manager" who was showing myself, and a new employee around to these door-to-door fake? charity contributions was rude, acted like an entitled child, and thought he was the king of reading people and the psychology behind why they said no to their begging for contributions. One "psychological" sales technique they love is to hand people a battered, dirty laminated leaflet with £ signs all over it, but! they can only hold it for literally 3 seconds before they snatch it back off them again, never giving them a chance to actually read it, and take in the information on the leaflet. Thus having to then trust everything that's coming out of this sales gurus mouth.
Was told at the start of the day to feel free to ask questions throughout the day/evening, asked what I felt was an innocent question about salary (the only time I ever mentioned it btw), was greeted by an angry response, apparently asking about salary on the second interview was out of order, and he was "not at liberty" to answer a simple, "so what is the average hourly wage?" question... found out the next day after doing some digging that its commission based off of £10 a month donations by people who are targeted by this company, who live in a council estate area.
There were many incidents throughout the day which would take all day to discuss, including a woman coming out and screaming at the manager for persist knocking, and his response was to have a nervous giggle, and as she walked away say rude things about her like a school child.
One last nail in the coffin was the drive home, as they discuss the day and what they have achieved, rude, foul language was used to describe the locals for whom they pin pointed beforehand to hit with their drivel. Couldn't stand the Manager, for whom ended the night with rude remakes about how "I currently have no career prospects, and live at home with my parents", felt like that was rather uncalled for when I said I wasn't interested in the role they were falsely offering...
Go ahead with the interview if invited! Its certainly a life experience!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No formal questions, just given tasks such as, define marketing, sales etc...