The entire process is incredibly long and drawn out. It started with a telephone interview which was fine a quick 15 minuet discussion about what I knew about Hays and my reasons for wanting to work there. I then had a face to face interview with the same internal recruiter. I was blown over with figures about earning potential and how much money I would earn over the next few years along with constant promotions. Then I had an assessment day which was 12 of us being quized on our selling ability and how well we could strip a CV. I then had an interview with the Director of the area I was going to be working within, the interview was terrible I was constantly remarked as being wrong and felt it has gone horribly. I was then offered the position but it was not in the office I was looking to work in so I then had to meet with the manager of that branch. After 3 repeats of the same questions I cant help but feel that it would have been more beneficial to meet the director on my first interview as 5 interviews is alot of time to take out from work. I would like to state that the whole process took 2 months where I would go upto 2 weeks at a time with no indication of how it had gone.

They were not upfront the number of interview stages involved. Interviewed for their intern position and it was a 4 stage interview process with the last being interview with one of their Directors. Last two stages was just a calendar invite to attend a teams meeting with some individuals, no accompanying email or whatsoever to tell you what the invite was all about and I found this very unprofessional for a recruitment agency especially as there was no consideration that such appointment could clash with any prior appointment one already has going on. Interviews were generally OK and friendly until the last one with the Director who from first meeting came across as very unfriendly and towards the end, made me feel I was taking up too much of her time by asking questions at the end of the interview.