If you are preparing for an Assessment Center for a management
trainee program then you definitely have to watch this video and even if you're
preparing for a regular interview this will still be relevant because all that
an Assessment Center basically is is one huge interview and in this video I want
to share with you five things that you should not do an Assessment Center is
basically like a mega interview so instead of having one two or even three
interviews that are conducted on several different days during an Assessment
Center all the tests and interviews happen within one whole day or sometimes
even two days if you want to find out what kind of tests you are likely to
encounter during an Assessment Center then you can check out my other video
and I've listed the link to the video above here a bit about my own personal
background I started my first career at a multinational bank as a management
trainee and when I went through the assessment center I got to know all of
the candidates and they were mostly highly educated and they came across as
very smart but there were certain people who did certain things that were a bit
off-putting and they just gave off the wrong vibe and in this video I want to
share with you how you can avoid this I'm not suggesting to you to present
yourself as someone who you are not on the contrary I think you always should
be genuine and try to present the best side of yourself uncertain you already
know what you should do during an interview but sometimes we get so caught
up in the details that we forget about how we come across to the other person
so now I want to tell you specifically what not to do things that could
potentially turn off the interviewer number one saying I don't know at some
point during the Assessment Center you will get a question that relates to
estimating a number or doing a calculation and it seems very
complicated and you feel like you don't have enough time to come up with a good
answer but you should never say I don't know even if you don't know the answer
you should try to derive an answer based on all the facts the information that
you have at that moment later on the job you will encounter many situations that
ambiguous and complex and for which you feel like you don't have enough time for
and what the Assessors want to try to find out is whether you will be
committed and resourceful enough to tackle the problem nonetheless number
two don't make excuses for your work but give assumptions instead you might be
asked to work on a case study together with other team members and there will
be missing information but instead of saying for example I couldn't calculate
the profit because I wasn't sure about the cause there wasn't enough
information for me to work with rather than that you can say something along
the lines of this is the profit I came up with assuming that the cost are ABCD
and also never put blame on any of your other team members because this may
reflect badly on your ability to work as a team number three don't ramble
rambling is not professional it gives the impression that you are not able to
focus so when you are doing your presentation let's say that your
presentation has five parts and you have ten minutes don't spend five minutes on
one small part where you talk about the issue that your group had to find a
specific number number for bad body language there are many details related
to this including eye contact gestures and body posture but what I would say is
the worst thing of all is coming across as disengaged
so this basically means looking tired looking bored or sleepy or basically
looking like you don't care about what's happening in front of you and believe me
your team members as well as the Assessors will notice so this is very
important number five never ridicul the interviewers questions there may be
questions that you find an easy or you think this has been asked to me multiple
times why are they asking it again or questions that just don't make sense but
never ridicule the interviewer although you might not outright say oh that's too
easy or why are you asking
again or the question doesn't make sense but your facial expression will give
that waste so really pay attention to that and don't signal in any way to your
interviewer that you find a funny strange or awkward so these were the
five things that you should try to avoid at any cost during an Assessment Center
or an interview remember that often times people are not solely judged based
on their skills although I believe that everyone the interviewer Assessors are
trying to judge and assess their candidates as objective as possible
they are after all humans so the way that you relate to them as well as to
other candidates in the Assessment Center will affect their decision so
what do you think about these tips is there anything that I missed out or
anything that you would like to add and if you feel like you need more
information about Management Trainee programs things that I haven't explained
yet then please feel free to check out my other video on management training
programs and I have listed the link above here I hope this video was useful
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