Royal Drawing School interview questions

I filled in an application online that was detailed and took me some time. I got a call back over the phone a week later inviting me to a two-stage interview. The first interview was online over Microsoft Teams with three members of the team: the manager, a hr staff member and a member of the office team. It lasted about 40 minutes with many questions asking me to give examples of a time I dealt with a situation when I demonstrated certain skills. I was prepared with examples and background knowledge of the institution. I had my own questions as well. I felt rather awkward online, the connection would get disturbed, but overall it went okay and I was invited to the next round a week later. The second interview was in person on-site. I arrived early and was brought to a empty studio room where a panel of three were. The interview was half talking and half computer tests. The talking lasted over half an hour and the questions were quite similar to the ones I had been asked during the first interview on teams. I was calm, talkative and good-humoured. I think I went into my advocacy for the arts a bit too much because they tried reminding me that it was an admin role that I was interviewing for. I felt several times that I was being caught out, but I would just go along and adapt with it. It was a pleasant interview overall. I was given a tour of the site and offices. Then I was taken to the admin office where I was given 30 minutes to complete some computer tasks. I struggled with the time pressure to complete all the questions before time ran out which brought my interview down I believe. I was told that I could expect to hear about the outcome early the following week. I would have had to prepare quite a bit if I did get it, so the sooner the better. I waited and didn't hear back after a week, then early the following week I still hadn't received anything. Close to the second week mark, I emailed to ask when I could expect to hear back if they had shortlisted candidates. I finally got an email, sent separate to mine that looked like it was sitting in the drafts for a while, saying that I had not been successful and there were candidates with skills better suited to the position and good luck with my job search. I thanked them for their time and asked for feedback but received nothing once again. It was disappointing. Considering it was quite an involved interview process, the least I could have received was an email not long afterwards, rather than me chasing them down two weeks later asking about it.