Recruitment Process
Our thorough recruitment process is designed to help you decide whether we're the right company for you and helps us to ascertain if you’re the right person for us. Whatever the outcome, there's something positive to be gained.
It can be confusing to understand what happens when and why it can take some time for us to get back to you so we have put our recruitment timeline below so you can see how it all fits together:
| Timeline | |
|---|---|
| Applications | September 2011 – April 2012 |
| Deadline for Investment programme applications | November 4th 2011 |
| Investment Interviews | November/December 2011 |
| Investment programme assessment centres | December 2011 |
| Deadline for all other programme applications (excl. European Internship programme) | December 31st 2011 |
| Interviews for all other programmes (Investment Internship can sometimes be earlier) | January to mid–February 2012 |
| Assessment centres (Investment Internship can sometimes be earlier) | January – March 2012 |
| Deadline for European Internship programme applications | April 30th 2012 |
| European Internship programme interviews & assessment centres | February or May 2012 |
| Internship Programmes Start | July 2012 |
| Graduate Programmes Start | September 2012 |
The process starts with an online application. If your application is successful, you'll be asked to take part in a competency-based telephone interview. For many of our business areas you’ll then be required to take one or a series of online tests. These vary from numerical or logical reasoning to language. The results of these could determine if you are invited to attend one of our assessment centres, but we’ll explain that in more detail at that stage of the process.
If you’re invited to an assessment centre, this will be tailored to the business area you want to join and will be held at one of our offices. For some business areas there may then be a third round of interviews or a more in-depth assessed exercise.
To find out more about the different stages of the process from applications to assessment centres, just click on the links on the left.
Please note for some of our programmes we begin interviews before the deadline while others are after the closing date, so please refer to the above timeline for your programme.
Every application form we receive is viewed by a member of the recruitment team. We don’t have an automated screening system. This means it’s a busy time of year for us, so please allow four to six weeks before we get back to you. If your circumstances change, please email us at graduate.recruitment@fil.com.
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