I applied in July 2006.

Got accepted first time to start in June 2007, I'll be on 212, Starting 25th June.

Anyway, my selection itinerary.

Stage 1 (full day) - Manchester

Motivation Paper
Diagramming
Spatial Awareness
Basic Checking
ATCO Chat
NATS Corporate DVD - (hehe!)
500+ Personality Questionnaire

Stage 2 (only guy there!) - NATS CTC Fareham

Computer Tests
Structured Interview (30 quickfire questions, no feedback)

Stage 3 (myself and 2 Scots) - NATS CTC Fareham

Introduction
Teamwork Exercise (bloody boardgame...)
Final Interview Assessment (uggh)
Secondary Personality Questionnaire + Results

End of Selection Process!

Just to copy 321now slightly

I applied in February 2007 and will also be starting on 25th June.

My selection itinerary.

Stage 1 (half day - 7 of us, loads of others didnt turn up) - London

Motivation Paper
Diagramming
Spatial Awareness
Basic Checking
NATS Corporate DVD
Personality Questionnaire

Stage 2 (only guy there!) - NATS CTC Fareham

Computer Tests
HR Interview (60 quickfire questions, no feedback)

Stage 3 (myself and 2 others) - NATS CTC Fareham

Introduction
Teamwork Exercise
4 hour wait
Technical Interview

End of Selection Process!

Has it seriously only taken you a mere 8 weeks from submitting your original NATS application to being offered a trainee ATCO position down at the college in Bournemouth ben-vrs?

Im most impressed!:ok:

Your missing one thing.. the Medical!!

Don't do what I did and have a wobbler and get yourself a unrealistically high blood pressure reading.. thus having to go to my GP for the next 3 days to get a report done!

whoops :)

was 7 weeks exactly from application to job offer :)

Thanks!
 

Hi everyone!

I'm a student in Belfast and hope to apply to NATS when I graduate (July 07) Just want to say thanks for all the advice in the posts!! I'm in the middle of filling out the application form now, think I'm getting nervous already:( !!

Cheers!

Higgy:cool:

Hey Higgy! Best of luck to you.

7?! I think there were about 50 on my stage one!

just to let anyone know, completed my stage one, was harder than i thought it but anyway it was exactly how neodude said it was:
Motivation Paper
Diagramming
Spatial Awareness
Basic Checking
Learning styles questionaire

NO verbal or numerical reasoning.....unfortunately. got my fingers crossed now for the next 3 weeks!

Stage 2
 

Hi, I have recently completed stage 1 (this forum was very useful!) and was wondering for any advice on the HR interview part of stage2. As I have never had an HR interview before any help is welcome. I suppose more specifically, it would be helpful knowing how to prepare for it, such as are they technical questions or the standard 'why do you want this job?' type questions. Many thanks...

Thanks for the info.

I have just had my selection day today! Hopefully everything went ok. I will find out within the next 15 days.

The motivation paper, Spacial awareness (Cubes!), personality questionaire and data checking were all assessed.

Were you at the Marriot in Water Street g_davies24 ?

I was one of the 3 nervous looking guys in the corner who were doing their stage 3. Seemed to go pretty well. Just a waiting game now :ugh:

grizedale, the stage 2 is pure HR - no technical questions at all. Expect a stone faced "thankyou" to each question and no discussion!

You'd do well to read up on standard HR question banks, there's plenty around
on the net, there'll be some ones you can't predict or expect though so don't be surprised if you get one that you hadn't even considered.

There's not much you can do for that interview in terms of preparation, just make sure you can think up situations that you've been in recently that show off your good points :)

PS: hope it goes well neodude ;)

hi
 

i have recently had my stage one tests and they have emailed me a personality questionnaire to do.. does this mean i am through? there was no indication in the email, do they judge you from this or invite you to interview anyway? cheers Pam :}


Jim! hey! how confused am i at the moment - good luck dude! i might not even make it by the sounds of it! :sad: gutted

It means you passed stage 1, well done! However, the questionnaire in itself is a pass/fail thing so think carefully :)

i didnt even understand half of it! haha! oh well i am who i am, so i cant even justify my answers to them.. great! lol! :ugh:

i wish i had known this before! i think i came across as not trusting anyone!! oops... :mad:

Pam,
Overall it's better that you're honest anyway. It will become pretty difficult to hide your personality throught the interview process. First time I applied I thought about the questions and put what I thought they wanted to hear and then couldn't be consistent in the interview becasue I couldn't remember what I said. Failed the HR interview
2nd time around I was honest the whole way and got through - I can't be certain of why I failed first time but it's more than likely the honesty thing.
Good luck:ok:

cheers mate - feeling a little better! fingers crossed! i want this so much :}


best of luck to jim and jerome too :}

stage 2
 

im through! stage 2 on May 21 at a comp centre in hampshire...

if anyone can help with the process i would much appreciate it!

:} yey!

If you read back through all the pages of the thread you will learn lots and lots