Hays Recruiter interview questions

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...

The first open day is pretty standard fare, you come in, hear the sales pitch and take part in a few group activities. The second stage is where matriculation really begins, you sit around a table with 11 other candidates and take part in group activities all of which involve you being able to talk and present yourself so make sure you are good at that. The most entertaining (and hardest) test of the day is siting back to back with the leading interviewer and simulating a call to a client, you will have no idea what to do going in, but you don't have to, listen on the day to what you are told and just do your best. Finally if you get through this you will be invited back for an interview with the directors who you will be working for, at this point the process is yours to mess up, do the relevant research on the people you are meeting and you'll do great