manual assessment at Jag/Land Rover

Gavin2209

I went for my manual assessment for i54 last thursday got a call today asking me to go to the wolves ground next wednesday for interview .
Don't know wether to attend or not ?
My window cleaning business is picking up now got 15 new customers this week if it carries on like this i wont need a job working for someone else .

Thefury_2

@gavin2209, the question you have got to ask yourself, are those potential 15 customers goin to earn you a starting salary of 22k?, are you prepared to be cleaning windows throughout the winter?, will your business provide u with benefits such as pension, healthcare, sick pay?. The job is perm days for 12 months so there would be no harm for you still to do the window cleaning after work or at weekends. At how our economy is, maybe those 15 customers can afford it NOW but however their circumstances may change in the future, when money is tight why pay some1 to do a job u can do yourself. At the end of the day, you have to think of the LNG term aspects and not the short term, it's ur choice and my opinion

Mick_w123

Does anybody know any exact questions they ask at the face to face interview?

minty_fresh

Finally after the 4th call today to manpower I was given a number to call (JLR apparently) who would be able to tell me what's happening (as i had my interview on 1/4/2014).

After around 6 times of calling over a few hours, a women answered!!

Only to be very sharp and say "no it's manpower you need to speak to not us" and put me back through to manpower!

Getting rather silly now to be honest.

mash456

EmmaS123 wrote: »

Halewood is different than Solihull.
There on earlies you start on Monday at 5, the rest of the days at 6:30..on afternoons you start on Monday 1:30 , tue-thurs 14:30, Friday - 15:30 and on Friday on lates you finish 00:30 nights: Monday 21:30, tue-thurs 22:30...and its 4 nights only

Hi Emma,

are you at Halewood? If so how long have you been there or have you just been taken on, thanks.

Timcanpy

Had my interview yesterday, email this morning said I'd failed.

gavinh87

Sorry to hear that Timcanpy, did they say why? Or can you think of anything that went wrong in the interview??

Timcanpy

No they didn't say why.

I had a bit of a hard time with my interviewer. He didn't introduce himself or shake my hand, he walked in silence with me to the interview room. He told me to keep my answers short and use only one example. He was laughing at somebody behind me at one point when I was trying to give an answer. He generally seemed as though he'd made up his mind before we'd even started.

I probably let this get to me and I think I lost a bit of confidence. I should have risen above it but I think I eventually failed to get across to him why I'd be a valuable worker. And at the end, when he asked if there's anything I wanted to ask him, I couldn't think of anything because I, probably wrongly assumed that, as a Manpower employee he wouldn't be able to answer my questions about the actual job.

Anyone with their interviews coming up, I strongly advise you to be prepared to ask a couple of questions when they ask you at the end.

Good luck to everyone in the process. I'll be trying again in 3 months if recruitment is open.

HWDP

As I spoke to manpower (Solihull plant based office) they told me to wait another 3-4weeks. So far its been 3weeks since my interview :-/

gavinh87

Timcanpy wrote: »

No they didn't say why.

I had a bit of a hard time with my interviewer. He didn't introduce himself or shake my hand, he walked in silence with me to the interview room. He told me to keep my answers short and use only one example. He was laughing at somebody behind me at one point when I was trying to give an answer. He generally seemed as though he'd made up his mind before we'd even started.

I probably let this get to me and I think I lost a bit of confidence. I should have risen above it but I think I eventually failed to get across to him why I'd be a valuable worker. And at the end, when he asked if there's anything I wanted to ask him, I couldn't think of anything because I, probably wrongly assumed that, as a Manpower employee he wouldn't be able to answer my questions about the actual job.

Anyone with their interviews coming up, I strongly advise you to be prepared to ask a couple of questions when they ask you at the end.

Good luck to everyone in the process. I'll be trying again in 3 months if recruitment is open.

I see what your saying, the manpower guy that interviewed me didn't' seem to know what I was talking about. I've worked in a manufacturing environment that use the same processes as JLR however when I was talking about them he kept asking me to explain what they meant

You should reapply in 3 months.