Our Assessment Centres this year are based in 3 locations:
London, Birmingham and Leeds.
The assessment centre is centred on a typical day of a Graduate
in the Financial Services Industry. Throughout the day you will
participate in an analysis exercise and group exercise and have a
face to face competency based interview.
The analysis exercise will require candidates to analyse a case
study and prepare a presentation of their findings.
The group exercise will require you to participate in an
interactive debate with other candidates.
The competency based interview provides the opportunity to
demonstrate skills and experience across the following
competencies: Judgement, Drive, Execution and Influence. For this
interview it would be useful to re visit the examples you were able
to share at telephone interview stage and expand on these to ensure
you have provided the best examples to demonstrate the competencies
which will be assessed.
The STAR model will be a useful technique for structuring your
competency examples. "STAR" is an acronym for:
SITUATION AND TASK
- Describe the situation/task you needed to accomplish.
- Be specific - don't give a generalised description of what you
have done in the past.
- Be sure to give enough detail for the interviewer to
understand.
ACTION
- Describe the action you took - keep the focus on you.
- What specifically was your involvement?
- Don't say what you might have done, say what you did.
RESPONSE
- What happened?
- How did the event end?
- What did you accomplish?
- What did you learn?
- What would you have done differently?
... and remember:
Answer the question that you've been asked, not one that you
want to be asked.
Preparation is key, come with a good understanding of Lloyds
Banking Group and the market in which we compete in.