After submitting an online application form I was contacted for a phone interview. This was fairly short and mainlys asked why I had chosen Ipsos and how my skills would contribute to the company. After the interview I was asked to complete some very easy verbal and numerical reasoning exercises online. After that stage one is invited to an assessment centre, which has all the standard elementes suc as: interview, presentation, group work.

I applied online and was contacted by phone to be invited to the assessment day with only two days notice. The day ran from 9-5 and included two reasoning tests taken onsite, a group exercise, a brainstorming exercise, an individual interview, and a work task where we were given 1.5 hours to prepare an individual presentation based on data provided. It was the longest and most exhausting assessment day I have attended. However, I found the interview to be the easiest part - the format was quite informal, the atmosphere was relatively friendly and non-intimidating, and it was mainly talking through my CV, less competency-based than I expected.