Hays interview questions

Attended the office in the City following a call from a consultant. I interviewed the previous year with 2 other consultants and never heard from them again. Got a call as my CV had come up on the database for a role; as my credentials were out of date re-submitted the due diligence required by most agencies today as a matter of course. The role was an immediate vacancy and we discussed my CV, the client firm and I still had no idea what the role was or who the firm was agencies give very little away about what is going on as you are the person who does the job but you are not the client. As we got to the end of the discussion it emerged that the role I was saying yes to would be disclosed to me by email later that day for where I was going and whom to contact etc so I had to ask what the role actually was and was told 'x'. So I blurted on about my experience in that field, I duly got the email that Friday afternoon and braced myself for the following weeks. On the Monday, it became apparent when I got there, it was another role entirely in a different department.

The interview process is quite lengthy. Initially I had a phone interview which lasted about 20 minutes just asking the usual background questions and why I want recruitment. I was invited for face to face interview in their London office with Luke. Started out as a very informal interview which was nice then we had to do role playing. I had never done recruitment before so I was quite new to this. They grill you on purpose and make it as difficult as possible to see how you fair under pressure. Afterwards I was invited to assessment day which was about 3 hours. There were 8 of us and we started out by introducing ourselves. Then we needed to do the mock phone call in front of everyone again and they don't make it easy. The second task was to write a job advent and lastly we needed to pick a CV from their pool and try and sell a candidate to a client. I thought it was a little unfair how for each task they started at the same end of the table so those being the first few (such as myself) had way less time to prepare than the others. I was then invited back the following week for an interview with the director. Was advised I would hear back either the next or day after if I was successful or not. It's been almost 2 weeks and I haven't heard anything... I tried calling and emailing and nothing. Somewhat rubbed the wrong way as the director said I would be notified either way and they made it sound like the process would be a lot faster than it was but in reality you are looking at numerous interviews spread out over the course of a few weeks...