Had a telephone interview before being invited to the centre for an assessment day. There were two others interviewing that day as well. We watched a presentation on Explore, was shown around the centre, and then we completed a short Maths and English assessment. Following thing, we had our one to one interviews where we were asked questions on our CV and some scenario-based questions. We then spent some time on the success maker software to get a sense of how the lessons work and finally they observed our interaction with some of the children as they began to come in.

Both telephone interview and one to one interviews were quite relaxed and laid back like a friendly chat. The staff/management doing the interview were great and really easy to talk to, it was easy to share the information they wanted regarding competencies, skills, personality and conduct. The phone interview was about your previous experiences and how it is relevant to the role. The face to face interview in the centre asked about working with children and motivation for teaching as well some role play where your asked to tutor a child doing some basic maths questions and correct mistakes positively and guide a child to complete a question using their own familiar methods e.g. methods used in school. There was a little maths and English test as well which was quite easy.