I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at SGN (Horley, Surrey, South East England, England) in Jul 2017
Interview
Interview process was fine, initial competency based interview and followed up with second interview a few weeks later which included a presentation, desktop exercise and more competency based questions. There was also a personality assessment that I had to complete.
It took 4 weeks to ‘officially’ find out I did not get the job. However, I had resigned myself to a disappointing outcome as the job seemed to have been readvertised on LinkedIn via a recruiter before I had found out if I was successful or not.
Feedback provided was limited and provided little for me to take forward for future interviews. The feedback was sent in an email from a member of the recruitment team, not from someone who interviewed me which was disappointing. Considering I had used annual leave and funded a hotel visit myself to be available for the interviews, I felt it would have been more courteous to receive the outcome and feedback over the phone from the recruiting manager himself.
Thank you for taking the time to write this review, and apologies for the experience you had with SGN.
We are currently working on improving the HR Function at SGN, and as well as looking at recruitment processes, we are also addressing the recruitment culture at SGN. We have identified the need to improve the candidate experience from start to finish, and want potential employees to have a better communicated process whether they are successful or not.
If you do apply again to SGN in the future, you will hopefully enjoy a better experience.