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This is an "all day" "Assessment Center" style interview. The chairman of the company gave you different tasks to see if you could handle them. The "assessment center" style interview is very efficient because the employer is going to know your strength and weakness right away instead of questioning "what is your strength, your weakness. etc". For the employer, they got to know what is the job look like here and what do they need to do on daily base. Warren buffet is also a big fan of the assessment center technology. Here is what he thinks about the "assessment center" style interview: Buffett is a great example of someone who cares more about behavioral data than a resume. During his hiring process, he aims to find out three things: is the person smart, does the person have energy and do they have integrity. Buffett’s interviewing process isn’t just someone sitting and answering questions. Instead, it is full of hands-on activities to see how the person is really going to act if they are hired, according to CBS News. To find out if the person is smart, Buffett gives them puzzles or a tough situation to see if they can figure out a solution. To find out if they have energy, he asks candidates to give a 10-minute presentation and, after they are done, gives them two minutes to figure out a new way to present that same information in a five-minute presentation.
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Private Equity Analyst

Interviewed at International Alliance Associates

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Aug 18, 2014

This is an "all day" "Assessment Center" style interview. The chairman of the company gave you different tasks to see if you could handle them. The "assessment center" style interview is very efficient because the employer is going to know your strength and weakness right away instead of questioning "what is your strength, your weakness. etc". For the employer, they got to know what is the job look like here and what do they need to do on daily base. Warren buffet is also a big fan of the assessment center technology. Here is what he thinks about the "assessment center" style interview: Buffett is a great example of someone who cares more about behavioral data than a resume. During his hiring process, he aims to find out three things: is the person smart, does the person have energy and do they have integrity. Buffett’s interviewing process isn’t just someone sitting and answering questions. Instead, it is full of hands-on activities to see how the person is really going to act if they are hired, according to CBS News. To find out if the person is smart, Buffett gives them puzzles or a tough situation to see if they can figure out a solution. To find out if they have energy, he asks candidates to give a 10-minute presentation and, after they are done, gives them two minutes to figure out a new way to present that same information in a five-minute presentation.

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