Hi
I went for the assessment day in Feb and although I was pretty nervous it was quite enjoyable.
They were about 20 of us on the day (which was quite a large group apparently) and when we first got there we heard a bit of spill about Virgin as a company. We then had to tell the group our name, where we are from and what we do and they asked us a few questions about that.
The first task was to find out information about the other candidates and write the answers to the questions on a piece of a paper on the wall. This was quite funny and we then sat back down and told the group what we learnt about each other.
We then all read out a sentence about Virgin (so polish you accent!) and then did a group task. We split into two groups and had about 10 everyday items per group. You then had to decide how to entertain a plane load of runway-bound passangers for 8 hours. This was quite funny again.
Then the interviewer told us what working for Virgin would be like and then answered any questions we had. This bit also made me chuckle as both the interviewers spoke as though 'tricky dicky' was an old mate. It was like "Richard thanks you for coming today".
Then decision time...... eek:
I didn't actually get through to the afternoon (I perhaps laughed a bit too much and they thought I was piss8d!) and to be honest I have no idea what they are looking for as 99% of the girls and guys are on the day were really nice people and very clued up. They only picked 4 to go through to the one to ones.
I'm sure they change their methods of interviewing from time to time so please don't take this as gospel but just enjoy it.
I'm definitely going to give it another go in August!:
