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      Trainee Planner Interview

      28 July 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Solihull, England
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Arup (Solihull, England) in July 2016

      Interview

      I did initial phone interviews with the recruiter and then was invited for an interview in the Solihull Office with the senior planner of the rail team and the rail leader. The process took about 1.5 hours and it was a somewhat relaxed setting, but it seemed like the role was just a thought and that if they were to hire anyone, it would be the first person to ever come into the company ad a trainee planner.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      What is the biggest problem with doing works on the railway in terms of planning? Give us an example of when you have worked on a project and used up 95% of your resources and needed to find out a solution to continue the work? What are your career goals? What did you most like about project management (in your studies and placements)? Tell me about a situation in which you ran out of time on a project and how you handled it? Tell me about your education? What do you know about Arup? Have you ever used Primavera and MS Project? If so what have you used them on? Have you had experience in planning out the design and construction phase of a project?
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