Assessment day tips
Our assessment days are intense, but they are designed to give you lots of opportunity to share with us your aspirations, talk about your experiences and show us why you could be a successful Hewitt consultant. There will also be time to hear from a number of people the opportunities that would be available to you and what it is really like to work at Hewitt.
When you arrive you will meet some of our recent graduate recruits who will help to put you at ease. It wasn't so long ago that they were in your position so they understand how you will be feeling. You will also hear from one of our trainee consultants, who will talk about their work and study experiences so far, and an experienced consultant who will tell you more about our business, our work and some of their client experiences. There will be further opportunity for you to talk informally to more people over lunch and during an office tour.
Interview - No assessment day would be complete without an interview. You will meet with two of our assessors who will use the opportunity to find out more about you as an individual, your experiences and aspirations. Just relax, be yourself and be ready to quiz your assessors about life at Hewitt. Personality is a big factor in building successful relationships with clients.
As in life, variety is key because some relationships work better than others.
What else we expect of you at the assessment day:
- > Turn up the same way as you would for a day at work, e.g. smart, on time and ready to work with other people! We have a relaxed business smart dress code, but also wear suits for meetings with our clients. Dress for the assessment day in the way that you feel most comfortable, jackets and ties are optional, but being smart does create an impression, and that is important in a consultancy where clients form opinions.
- > Be familiar with our business. In the same way as our clients would expect us to know public information about them, we will expect you to be aware of the information about our business on this website. It's fairly brief, and there's no trick elements that you have to search for.
- > Consider what else you want to know and test our managers on before you decide that we are the right place for your career.
- > Be yourself. Don't try to pretend to be different to the real you. The real you may be just what we are looking for. There are no right answers to many of the exercises, so don't try to out-think yourself and imagine things not mentioned on this website are being looked for. We are not looking for a single type of person, we are looking for variety and a range of people who can help our clients.
- > Don't hide your weaknesses and be ready to talk about them, everyone has weaknesses and awareness of them is important in reducing exposure to them and playing to your individual strengths. (David Beckham couldn't kick very well with his left foot so he didn't pretend to be a left winger, he asked to play on the right. Someone else can play on the left.)
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