Assessment Centres at Cotswold Conference Centre, Midlands

At Cotswold Conference Centre, several companies have run extended selection procedures - often called ‘assessment centres’. They tend to last one or two days but sometimes longer.

Usually, these are after the first round of interviews and before the final selection, but they are also sometimes used as an initial selection process for the next graduate intake. In our experience the event will include:

Social/informal time, meet and greet, including other candidates, the assessors, recent graduates and senior management. This is an excellent opportunity for attendees to find out about the organisation and to ask questions in the more informal setting of our bar. A BBQ is often a good ice-breaker environment or one of our experiential ‘Eye-Opener’ activities.

Information sessions, which provide more detail about the organisation and the roles available. A large plenary room is needed.

Tests and exercises for applicants designed to reveal potential using products like Belbin Team Roles and SHL’s OPQ questionnaires & tests.

Syndicate rooms or classroom layout is prefered.

When you need the first impression of your company culture to be business like, professional and service orientated, the venue for the assessment centre is key and can set the framework within which all new employees operate from then on. The new intake are often the future management team so choosing a dedicated conference centre rather than a country house hotel with spa for the selection event says a lot about the company ethos to potential employees.

For further details or if would like to discuss running an assessment centre at CCC, please contact Nick@CotswoldConferenceCentre.com


Assessment Centres at Cotswold Conference Centre, Midlands