Lens · Talent
Graduate Recruiter
Sorts thousands of applicants by the same five criteria.
Graduate Recruiter
- Who they are
- Runs a graduate or internship scheme with a high volume of applicants and a published competency framework.
- Decides
- Assessment centre
- Wins them
- Each competency answered with a specific example: situation, action, result.
- Real knowledge of the firm and the scheme, not the homepage.
- Loses them
- Answers that could go to any firm, examples with no result, rules ignored.
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