I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Capgemini (London, England) in Dec 2010
Interview
Write out an application form, answering questions about your extra curricular activities, positions of responsibility, teamwork, personal achievement, why Capgemini and why management consulting. This was followed within a week by an invitation to taking an online verbal reasoning test by SHL. After taking the test and passing, I was asked to a telephone interview, which occurred around 2-3 weeks later.
The 1:1 phone interview lasts about 40 minutes and focused on about 5/6 questions which include:
Do you know about the travel requirements of consults?
Tell me about Capgemini
Name a time you worked on a team with working habits different to yours, and how did you deal with them?
Describe a time when you communicated with different audiences
Can you tell me of a time when you had a new idea and developed this idea? How did you develop it and how did you implement it?
I was notified a week later that I had passed the interview, and was invited to an AC 3-4 weeks later.
A week before the AC they send you some information for a case study which you will have to present to a partner in 20 minutes.
The actual AC lasts around half a day, involves meeting Capgemini grads, a 30 minute group exercise (15 minute prep time to read over a lot of information). Then an interview with a partner (including the preprepared presentation and an on the spot case study), then finally a verbal reasoning test similar to the one you took in the first place (except with 2 extra questions for added difficulty/time constraint).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you tell me of a time when you had a new idea and developed this idea? How did you develop it and how did you implement it?