Applied online.... got a call about a month later to come take a common sense test that ended up having nothing to do with the job. The only thing I can imagine they get out of it is if you can comprehend what you read and do basic math. If you "pass" the test then they take you on a tour of the plant. About a month and a half later I was called to do a panel interview with 2 or 3 management people of various positions. Overall it was pretty laid back and conversational... they asked a few of the usual HR questions but often side tracked with follow ups about parts of your answers to fill in some details. I had a few interesting jobs before applying so we mostly talked about those and I think they skipped a few of the questions on my interview because they were short on time. Probably all depends on who interviews you... anyways then fast forward another month to month and a half later with no word I get a call with a job offer and then Set a date to do all the paper work, background check, health eval. , drug testing etc.. Pending good results on all pre screens your hired. Overall the process was rather painless but they really need to shorten the turn around on it as I was under the impression I had been passed over because it took so long. They have changed the process since I was hired at the franklin facility to include hourly people on the interview panels but the ultimate decision is up to HR and they are pretty clueless as to what actually goes on in the mill and don't typically show a value in the hourly employees opinion on who should be hired. Also they will only allow basic typical HR questions to be asked and not more technical ones that would at least pertain to the jobs these people would be working, thus allowing a few rather lackluster people become employees who are then fired within 6 months because they suddenly realize that working shift work means you have to work days, nights, weekends, holidays, rain sleet , snow or hail as scheduled and working in a heavy industrial environment means you can't refuse to do your job and put it off on other people because your scared of walking on metal grating 100+feet in the air or working with chemicals. A lot of people who apply walk in and get blindsided because they've never worked in an environment like this and then quit/get fired, leaving us with having wasted time and effort training them and the company wasting the money on all the pre screen tests and paying them while doing both a 5 week pre job training on rules and regulations and however long they last training on the job.