Bristol meyer squib first round recruitment process

juanveron45

This Monday I have been invited to Bristol meyer squibb for the first stage of the recruitment process for the position of manufacturing process technican.This will involve 2 exercises which I think are apptitude tests and a group discussion.I think I should be ok with the written exercises but its the group discussion thats has me bothered as im natuarlly a shy person, do you have any tips on how to prepare for this please?If you have advice the aptitude test that would be great too?

juanveron45

would still like info on this

Wishbone Ash

juanveron45 - queries for Work and Jobs tend to have a better responses from Monday to Friday. If you hear nothing over the weekend, bump it up again on Monday morning at about 10am.

padser

I have been to 'assessment centre' which included a group interview. When I got my feedback it turned out I wasn't getting an offer based on my performance in the group interview. However I did get some insight into why.

Beforehand I had spoken to quite a few people regarding group interviews and the main piece of advice I had gotten was to make sure that my contributions built on things that other people had said - rather then simply answering the question myself. For example

Question put to the group - Why did Fine Fail get re elected

Candidate A - I think people were afraid of change

Candidate B - I think people were upset over the media treatment of Bertie Ahern.

Now its your turn. Rather then saying something like 'The opposition parties didn't' present a realistic altenitive' try to build on the previous comment with something like 'As X said I think the media thing played a big part in it. While some people were certainly put off him by the allegations over his personal finances it appears that more people felt that he was being deliberately targeted'.

If you do this you are showing that you are not only answering the question but also listening to what other people are saying - and considering their opinions.

Also I would aim to be the 2nd or 3rd most active contributor if possible. Certainly not the most - but also not in the bottom half in terms of the number of contributions.

Keep making eye contact with the people you are talking to - and watch where you hands are (eg put them on the table or on your lap if no table).

Finally the part that I failed on was that I didn't interact with certain members of the discussion. Basically we had already been together for 2/3 hours doing various excersises and having lunch etc so I knew them to a certain extent. There was one girl who I didn't rate at all and her contributions to the conversation were pretty poor I thought. I didn't want to waste a contribution by replying or builidng on her points (as many of them didnt make sense) but I was told afterwards that this was obvious as my head dropped and I was visibly not listening when she was contributing. So just make sure you are visibily attentive all the time.

Best of luck

juanveron45

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