London Business Conferences Interview Questions & Answers

After sending in my CV I was contacted by a member of the company, who invited me to attend an assessment day. The email summarized the background information about the role as conference producer and detailed all the characteristics they were looking for in a candidate. It was stated that in order to be considered for the position I needed to have some experience in sales, research and project management, if possible.
There was no telephone interview, and the assessment day lasted only until noon (and was led by a member of senior management).

There are no interview questions doing the assessment morning.

It's always good if you have some sort of sales , research or project management experience as doing well in this job is depended on these skills.

The assessment is purely based on your research skills, so be prepared to concentrate on the task.

As you have only 2 1/2 hours to impress them, make sure that you show your communication and teamwork skills.

First, we introduced ourselves and described our academic and professional background.

We were given an introduction about the values of the company, the role of a commercial conference producer and the progression of previous graduates.

The actual assessment was divided into three aspects.
First, a research analysis test, where we were asked to read through 20 transcripts(oil and gas industry)and extract the most important information from which we would construct our own conference.
Second, a role play exercise, which is a group based activity and makes use of the information you collected doing the research task. Third, we were presenting the structure and content of our conference in individual group presentations (which do'not last much longer than 5 minutes).

A lady phoned to get a general feel of why I thought this role suited me, she also asked me what I thought the role would entail and gave me some background information onto the company. She also asked I have any previous experience within events, research or corporate roles.

Who are our main competitors and what industries do we deal with?

Be prepared to do a lot of heavy research and analysis from day one in the company. This role requires a driven and competitive individual.

In regards to the assessment center, make sure you speak up and volunteer ideas during the group discussion, a large part of their selection criteria people based on this.

We had to read though 20 sets of telephone transcripts which was from a rage of oil and gas suppliers. We then had to extract the most useful to design our on conference. Using the questions on a separate sheet. This included what the main topics of discussion should be and also and also who the primary audiences should be