I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Aquinas Education (London, England)
Interview
The general application process was insanely draining as this company made you promises on when they would email only to never follow through on such deadlines, and when they sent you correspondence, for example confirming an interview, the location was missing and you had to ask for the address and didn’t get a reply till a mere few days before. The process involved consistently chasing them for an answer. But the unprofessionalism didn’t end there - in both of my application stages (interview, presentation) there was a staff member on their phone while I was speaking, or looking completely disinterested, disengaged, and afterwards not bothering to say a simple goodbye or a thank-you for one’s time. I also don’t think I was the problem since after sitting on their phone in my initial interview I passed to the next stage. I understand being busy and having other things to do in the office but things like this aren’t really impressionable. If you don’t have the time to give to graduates, don’t invite them for interviews or create ‘new’ departments for them, and more importantly do this after they spent their time preparing for you only to then be treated like a fly on the wall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you bring to the company, why you want to choose this company, what you think you would be doing within the role.
I interviewed at Aquinas Education (London, England)
Interview
The interview process I experienced was very poor due to basic lack of communication and cancellation of plans. Initially, we were meant to have a phone call, which I prepared for. My point of contact did not call me (I did not have his number), and did not apologise for not calling. We went through to an interview process. The first interview went well. I was then told they would like to do a 2nd interview. We organised a date. I then tried to organise a time, but my point of contact did not respond until after the proposed date. He apologised and still wanted to meet me again. And the same happened again. This did not represent the company well whatsoever and I have decided not to move forward any further with this company
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What interests you about working for Aquinas Education?