I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at North Carolina Marketing Solutions (Raleigh, NC) in Jan 2013
Interview
I applied through the career center website and received an email about an interview at the office mere hours later.
I took a cab to the office to interview with the CEO (who informed me he had started off as an entry-level employee just two years ago...). Straightforward and simple interview. The CEO described the process as direct marketing and explained his own career path, as well as detailed the subsequent steps (a full day interview out on the field conducting direct sales).
I was misled by the job posting on the career center website, as this position is essentially sales, not marketing (as the formal title of the position and the company would have you believe). I reported this to the career center. Not surprisingly, I never heard back about the position.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at North Carolina Marketing Solutions (Raleigh, NC)
Interview
Was not expecting this to be a sales position and that is exactly what it turned out to be. I even asked before I drove four hours for the interview and was lied to.
I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at North Carolina Marketing Solutions in Feb 2013
Interview
After applying online through my university's recruiting website, I got a call a few days later asking when I would be free to go in the next day or the day after for an on-site interview. I then scheduled for the next morning, and went to my first round interview. It was overall a professional experience, and the lady at the front desk was very friendly and pleasant. The interview itself was surprisingly with the president himself, despite being a first round interview. The interview experience was basically behavioral, and definitely not too difficult. I was then informed that if I got a call back later that evening, then I would be moving on to the second round interview. I did indeed get a call back, and I then scheduled an all day interview for the following Monday. The second round interview was a job shadowing experience, after which the employee who took me around would determine whether I moved on to the final round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What one word would your close friends use to describe you?