Title of position interviewed for: Production Supervisor
Approximate date of interview: 2/2005
Location: Detroit, MI
Submitted on: 06-May-05
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I will try to be as detailed as possible.
First of all the only reason Human Resources called me is because my
father knows a person in the upper management. First you would have to
apply online and then they should call you if they are interested, but
because of my network in the company, they called me up first and then
I applied online. To be able to start the interview process you have to
have 2 things first of all ( know someone on the inside that recomeds
you or have a Great Resume and experience ).
I will number all the major steps in the selection process.
#1 Take an online test: Here they just ask questions about your
personality, to check if you have the team work spirit, and with what
level of safety are you willing to work. You should answer questions
that demonstrate team work yet ssafety.
#2 I had to do a play role over the phone with ona of the human
resource representatives: First of all, here they give you a package
with information about a ficticious company in which you pretend to be
a production supervisor in charge of like 20 or 30 people. There are
three Parts in the telephone Play role, In the first part I had to
pretend that I was talking with an angry worker and they wanted to see
how I handle it. In the second part I had to pretend to talk with one
of the Labor Union representatives, and she was also upset and they
wanted to see how I dealt with her. In the third part I had to listen
to a couple messages from my superiors and I had to take some actions
after listenings to them.
#3 If you passed the telephone role plays, they called you up to set up
a face to face interview. This consists of 3 parts. First part you have
to give a 5 minute presentation about information they give you there.
You have like 10 minutes to prepare it and you have to pretend that you
are giving it to the people that work under you. The presentaion os
about safety also. The second part is all questioning. They want you to
answer questions with the Acronym "STAR" which means (S- Situation, T-
task, A- Action and R- result). For example they asked me. Tell me
about a time you had to work with people that are from different
ethnicity? You would have to answer like this: S- I was in College and
I had to do a project with people from other countries, T- we had to do
a project on blockbuster video, A- I treated everyone with repect and
avoided racism comments, and R- we all got along very well. Here they
are just going to give you situiations and ask you how would you react
or simple ask you questions. Don't worry this step was the easiest, the
questions are very simple and are the usual ones they ask you in any
other company. Another example was, What is your biggest acomplishment?
How would you describe yourself? Tell me about yourself? Tell me about
a time you disagreed with your supervisor? What type of people do you
find it difficult to work with? How important is safety for you? Tell
me about a difficult task you had to do, how did you handle it?
The last part of the interview process and the most difficult for me
was the Production Schedule. They give you ALOT of information and 45
minutes to complete this task. Here you are going to have to do a
Production Schedule, it is likely that you are not going to finish but
what they want to see here is the way your brain works. That is what
the recruiter told me aftewards, because I freaked out because I could
not put in some projects into the time frame. But He told me that they
just want to see hoy you arrange things and how my brains works. This
part is difficult because there are alot of constrains, for example
(You need to leave 1 day a week for maintanence and stop production,
This person cannot work on this days, you have to leave tuesdays
morniungs for meeting, on may the 23 you have to go to another
meeting..... and so on.... they give you so many things like this...
that by the time you are going to plan the production schedule .. you
already forgot all the things you have to do.
If you pass this part, they are going to place you in a Pool of
qualified candidates, in which thank God I am in. And when a position
opens up they will call you up. But I have been told that this can take
anywhere from 3 to 6 months. So even after they have accepted you, you
better find something else in the meantime they call you up, because it
can take long. Right now I have been told by some friends in GM that
they are having some severe Financial problems.. and they have put all
hiring on FREEZE. LOL so I guess it will take a little longer for the
to call me up and make me a job offer.
For now I have been accepted in HERTZ as a Manager Trainee, hopefully
they will call to offer me the job soon.
Hope this helps........ Good luck to everyone.....
God Bless
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