I found the job advertisement on the GE site and applied with a standard CV and covering letter.

Shortly after, I was invited to complete an online psychometric test. This consisted of a series of business scenarios and choosing, out of four potential responses, what would be the most and least effective.

A few days later, they scheduled a telephone interview with me. It consisted of motivational and competency-based questions, as well as asking me to talk about my degree and IT skills.

The questions that I remember were as follows:

• Why do you want to work for GE?
• Can you give an example when you have faced a problem in a project and how you resolved it?
• Can you give an example of when you have had to learn a new skill?

I'm sure there was one more competency question, but I can't remember it.

I was very confident in my performance in the interview, but unfortunately, they did not continue with my application.

I was expecting them to ask why I wanted to work in this position, but they only asked about wanting to work for GE. I was expecting this, but had done more research into the specific position and plant I would be working in rather than GE as a whole.