The process begins with an online application, followed by an invitation to an assessment day.

The assessment day starts with an initial reception where you meet all the other candidates. This is followed by a schedule brief from the Hiring Manager. You will be given a personal timetable, which consists of the times and rooms for each interview and activity of the assessment day.

There are two interviews:

• One behavioural interview
• One technical interview

A final group assessment follows the interviews.

The behavioural interview involves drawing relevant examples from your past experience to demonstrate your approach to different situations. The technical interview is slightly more intense than the behavioural interview, as the interviewers are trying to gauge exactly how much you know and how far your skills extend. You will be asked to elaborate on the technical skills listed on your CV and to demonstrate them.

Your group assessment will require you to assert your problem-solving and teamwork skills. For my group assessment, I was blindfolded and given four differently shaped and coloured objects. As a group, we were told that for each candidate there should be five of each shape in five different colours, and that between us, two objects were missing overall. So, we had to work together to figure out what the missing objects were. I was one of the people with a missing object. We were given 45 minutes for this exercise, but it didn't take that long.

The technical interview was the most demanding part of the day in comparison to everything else.

During the fixed part of this interview, I was shown a computer motherboard and then asked to demonstrate my knowledge of its architecture by:

• Identifying all the main components
• Identifying the function of all the main components
• Describing the typical boot-up sequence of a computer (CPU, BIOS, etc.)

The rest of the interview was a discussion directed by the technical skills laid out in my CV.