Own your own Sith! Or help someone else own him!

[Sneakytiger]

Have u looked into the job sites like indeed or total jobs,put your cv online ?


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[Mikep1212]

it seems like its become far to easy for companies to mass deny applications via the typical sites, like Indeed and Monster etc..

Guess so!

[sulky_uk]

shame this is in seriously though area.....so many things to say


On a more...wait for it...serious note, yep sulky does serious..or was it sarah?

have you put you CV on linkedin, that according to the RAF's resettlement guide is one of the top 5 ways to get a job post military service( i know you aint a grunt)

create an account, and people will hopefully find you based on your cv etc, also if you friend people it gets you more widely visible to people you may not know.

if you create an account let me know and ill friend you, i have a few connections, as do others on here

[SithAfrikaan]

Thanks Sulky I'll give that a go and report back tomorrow morning!

[suicidal_monkey]

I would suggest Ocado but our head office is way too far from you. We do have a spoke near Hull somewhere but perhaps not what you're after: driving vans, delivering groceries. Not sure there's anything office based in Hull looking at our careers site but I can try digging for more info?

[SithAfrikaan]

That's alright thanks Suicidal, I'll check them out!

[SithAfrikaan]

Hey so a quick update for anyone still curious, I've applied for the Amazon IT Apprenticeship, and today I found out that I've made it to the final round! This is worded as follows:

Hi Jacques,
I am pleased to confirm that you have been successful in reaching the final stage in the recruitment process for the role of IT Apprenticeship Program, which involves a visit of the site, a group exercise, an individual presentation, and a competency-based interview.

I'm obviously super excited, but my question to anyone reading is, any tips for me? Maybe you've had experience yourselves? The pre-screening was a gruelling set of questions so I imagine this "competency-interview" is going to be QUITE interesting!

[BrotherTobious]

Group exercise is basically how you work in a team, so push when you need to, find the quiet one and purposely ask their opinion to bring them in.  Change your role from leader to do and so on.  A few easy moves show you can be a team player!!!

[Penfold]

Firstly congratulations. I'm sure the interview process was as rigourous as it was competitive so no small thing in getting that far.

The last group exercise I did was for Sandhurst which was pretty much as Toby said. The key, apprently, is to strike that happy balance between being confident yet not overly dogmatic or dictatorial. Work with the others, listen to their arguments and reasonsing. If you disagree with someone then tell them calmly and explain why your view is different. Embrace everyone in the group (not literally) and if you don't know something then don't be afraid to stick your headf up above the parapet and say so. Being able to say "I'm not sure about this but this would be my take on it" says a lot about your strength of character.

Hate giving you any credit as you know but you've got a warm, engaging and likeable character. That, coupled with your infectious enthusiam, is going to stand you in great stead.

That's my thoughts on it in any case. Others here have probably done these things a lote more recently and interviewed people so they may have a different take.

[albert]

Amazon have a certain expectation for interviewees. I have the email from applying once. I can send it to you if you PM me an email address.

[SithAfrikaan]

Thanks for the responses dudes! I'll pop you my email Albert!

[DuVeL]

I never had anything similar but wish you best of luck buddy! Keep us posted!

[suicidal_monkey]

Hope this doesn't come too late...!

a visit of the site, a group exercise, an individual presentation, and a competency-based interview.

We use similar sorts of stages in our interview processes. Couple of general things we look for:
- show some knowledge or interest in the company and the role (when given the chance to ask them questions like "what is it like to work here" or "what do you like about working here" - try to find out a little bit about how their teams work. Basically be yourself and have a conversation with them! )
- communication and listening: explain your thought process, and when they talk to you make sure you listen carefully to what they say (lots of people fail to heed advice during the interviews as they are so caught up in thinking about what they are doing/saying). If they challenge your solution, consider their suggestions in case they are checking if you blindly do what they say. Jokes (safe for work ones!) are allowed: we want to know we could enjoy working together
- admit when you have reached the limit of your knowledge and are perhaps guessing a bit, and they might help you
- if you get stuck in some problem then explain what you're thinking and where you're stuck: you can ask for help
- in the presentation have a clear message (3 key points or less - we have crap memories) and be explicit about them. Less text on the slides (if you use slides) allows you to talk more normally and they won't know when you forget something! Use your personality to make the presentation work if possible:D Also remember to look at all the people you are presenting to (don't look at the floor/wall/slides all the time!)

Be yourself and hopefully you'll do fine. I'm not sure what "Amazon IT Apprenticeship" means exactly but if it's similar to some of our positions we tend to look for potential (collaboration, communication, able to ask for help when needed, willingness to learn and to take on challenges) over existing knowledge/ability.

Good luck!

[SithAfrikaan]

Thanks for the tips Suicidal!

[SithAfrikaan]

Just wanted to say a further thanks to everyone that gave me tips here! I was really looking forward to come tell you just how well the day actually went!
It went incredibly!
The short-list was 6 and only 5 turned up. It was the very standard affair, meet, presentation by us in a 1 to 1 (not 1 to 10 like I expected) a tour of the INSANELY SCI-FI AND AWESOME robot-run facility and then finally a group activity for assessment.
I came out of the day feeling great and that it could not have gone better at all.

And Dudes, it went so well that less than 24hours later 10 am yesterday I got the email to say I've been accepted and I start in August (term time since apprenticeship)
I am SO ECSTATIC and excited I can't even begin to tell you, it's a SUPER opportunity for me and I cannot wait for it.

So once again, massive thank for the supports and the messages!