So my pre-screen was scheduled for the 9th of October at Liverpool John Moore's University :)
On the 8th of October I finished university for the day and met up with my mum to catch the bus up to Belfast International Airport. We were dead early so we had loads of time to kill lol We ended up having dinner and then sitting in Starbucks watching the planes. Our flight was uneventful and was only about 30 minutes long! We then got a taxi from the airport to our hotel for the night, we had actually stayed in this hotel during the summer when we travelled around England for a week and it just so happened to be 10 minutes walk from the uni! I eventually got to sleep although I do remember hearing a group of women coming in from the pub and they were so loud!! Banging doors and everything but thankfully I got back to sleep!
After breakfast the next morning we started walking to the university at about 8am, I had my Iphone out to make sure we were going the right way lol We found the building and the room so my mum waited at the entrance to the building were there was a reception area (but there did not seem to be any staff there anyway lol) while I went into the room for the presentation.
We met Nick, Jason, Becky and Louise from Yummy Jobs and they gave a presentation about the program which included all the roles, where you would be living, costs of the program etc It just made you even more excited to go!! We were then asked if you had gotten in contact with them previously about getting an earlier interview to come up to the front. This was my case since I had a flight that day so there were about 10 of us who needed an early interview so we were the first interview group at 11am with Becky and Louise!
We had to walk to another building about 5mins away but it seemed to be that everyone walked over at once so it was ok :) In the building where the interviews were taking place there was a room where they had a cafe so most people gathered there to wait for their interviews :)
So we got into the interview and we handed over our CV's and our picture (which was just an extra copy of my passport photo) which they would write on during the interview. The room was set up so that Becky and Louise were sitting at a desk and we were all facing them in a semi-circle. Generally the questions were just thrown out and anyone could answer them but there were a few questions where they went round the semi-circle.
The Questions asked were: (in no particular order since it was so long ago lol)
Why do you want to do the program?
How would it benefit you from doing the program?
What are your top 3 roles?
Do you have any visible tattoos or piercings?
Are you available for both program dates or just one?
What is your realistic and dream job?
What challenges do you think you would face when you are out there?
And finally just for fun...What Disney character do you think you are most like?
For me I know I was too quiet for the first two question because I didn't get a chance to speak before they moved on, which was my fault because I didn't speak up quickly enough but then again you don't want to talk over people! Everyone was really nice and we had a bit of a laugh both before and during the interview :)
At the end it was really hard to tell if you had done well or not since you didn't know what they were looking for! But one thing I did notice was that Becky asked all the questions while Louise wrote down things on our CV's and also Louise seemed to be looking at the other people who were not speaking at the time. So I made sure I was smiling and listening to other people and nodding in agreement. Although I was doing that naturally anyway! :)
So that was the pre-screen interview! We also found out that 1700 people applied, 500 got through to the pre-screen stage, about 300 would get through to the final interview and about 220 people would actually get to go to Florida! When I found this out I was so pleased to even get to that stage since the majority of people had been cut!!
We were told we would find out if we got through to the final interview stage on the Friday :O So it was a pretty short wait!
More next time ;)
Have a Magical Day!!
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