No seriously, the only reason i have done this for the last 6 months is cause i haven't been able to find anything else without moving back home (which may be just what i might do)

once again GOOD LUCK SNIPE!!!!!

 

Well, the week is finally over. I feel pretty good about it. I took two tests on Tuesday and I am sure I aced the first one but the other one I am not so sure about. It was timed and I wasn't really prepared for the speed of it. Pretty sure I did Ok though.

The day after was the interview and I think I did really well. I was relaxed and the conversation was flowing.

The third component was the "observed" group activities. I believe this to be the most important part of the process, and if it was, I feel really good about it. I hear that they are looking for leadership ability and qualities. It was four parts with groups of five people with an assessment person watching each section.

The first was a survival quiz. "What would you do if you were stranded" type of questions. We answered individually and then discussed as a group. Even though we didn't do that well on the actual answers, I made sure to take the lead in the discussion and give logical reasons why I believed my answers to be correct (which most of them were even though they didn't agree with me).

Second was a list of 6 people and they were all up for a kidney transplant. Only one could be saved and we had to decide which one to save and why. I was very adament about the my selection and was in the lead with the discussion again. I ended up swaying my decision becasue of a 4-1 vote to save the woman with the 5 kids. I wanted to save the doctor on the verge of a cancer breakthrough.

Thrid was a riddle. We were given very innocuous clues and had to determine names, ages and birth month of everyone at a party. I am pretty good at these sort of things and we got everyone right. The guy watching us said we were only like the 3rd group out of 100 to get them all right. My logic is undeniable.

Lastly was the famous "swingset" test. I have heard about this thing for years and it is somewhat of a legend around my hometown. They put you and your group in a room and tell you to assemble a swingset. The directions are incomplete and some of the parts are missing. Legend has it that the first person to grab the directions gets the job, so I was surprised that no one went for them. The other guys just went about trying to put it together from their idea of what a swingset should look like. To hell with that, the instructions have pictures. I grabbed them and did what anybody with instructons does; I started pointing and directing the action. After only five minutes of that the observer says, "Ok, that's enough. I have seen what I needed to see." I don't know if that is good or bad, but I would feel differently about it if I hadn't had the directions in my hand when he said it.

So thanks for all of your good vibrations. They certainly helped. I will keep you guys posted.

 

Sounds like you did very well. Very happy for ya Snipe, keep up the good work!!!

 

what the hell. all my interviews are on each side of a desk, and they ask questions like "how do you see yourself in five years?" or " What do you think you have to offer this company?" what the crap kind of a job are you going for?