The chief assessor and a former applicant give tips on how to acquire through Whitehall’s graduate scheme assessment daySo you’ve jumped through the hoops and vaulted the hurdles to reach the assessment centre for the civil service’s sought-after graduate fast stream. What should you expect from the day? An assault course for the brain? An aggressive starvation Games-style tournament with your fellow applicants? A bewildering psychological personality test? None of these (but maybe a pinch of them all) suggests Philip Wilson,the chief assessor and chief psychologist on the fast stream team, who has been involved in the assessments for six years.
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Source: theguardian.com