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Q and A for Psychometric Tests

By Sarah Durke, Employability and Education Projects Officer If you’re looking for a graduate role this summer or an internship, it’s more than possible that you will come across psychometric tests as part of the recruitment and selection process. Here’s some helpful answers to questions we get asked about these tests. What are psychometric tests? …

Group Exercises: What Do Employers Look For?

By Sarah Allen, Employability Education Projects Officer Graduate employers often use a group exercise during their assessment centre process.  These normally involve a group of four to eight applicants completing a task in a set amount of time.  You will have an assessor recording what you say and do throughout the task and this information …

Three tough interview questions revealed

By Sarah Allen, Employability Education Projects Officer (Social Sciences) ‘Death will be a great relief. No more interviews’ – Katharine Hepburn Sometimes it may seem like the interviewer is part of some cruel joke, asking you cryptic questions that are only devised to confuse. The truth is they need to ask these questions to determine …