Talent Management and Assessment Centre Practice

This assignment details the importance of staying positive, confident, and motivated during an interview or assessment centre test. It emphasizes the need to possess an accommodative and instinctive approach towards assigned tasks, use formal language for effective communication, and reach the interview location early to demonstrate punctuality. The assignment also references various studies on talent management, career development, and assessment centres, providing a well-rounded understanding of the topic.

MANAGING PEOPLE
AND CAREERS

Table of Contents
COVER LETTER ...........................................................................................................................1
CURRICULUM VITAE .................................................................................................................2
INTERVIEW PRACTICE...............................................................................................................8
ASSESSMENT CENTRE PRACTICE...........................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

COVER LETTER
Daniel Jones
ACD street, Thames,
England, UK– WQR 2XT
(003)-23-222
[e-mail]
April 15, 2019
Nick Jones
Director, Human resource
THG sports
The NBC tower
455 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
9th floor, Chicago, IL 60611
[e-mail]
Dear sir,
I'm writing in order to apply for the position of sales executive at THG sports which is a
subsidiary of renowned Marcus Evans group. I have acknowledged for this job vacancy through
an advertisement which was posted on official website of company on 13th April, 2019. I am
capable and skilled due to which I am confident that all challenging and complex work at
workplace will be pursued by me with positive attitude. To have a successful career in sales a
person is required to have excellent convincing capabilities. Due to my high expertise, I am able
to develop an organic growth structure which will helps the company in attaining their
objectives. I am confident that I posses those capabilities which are required by me to be a good
sales executive. I prefer to use innovative approaches that I can properly guide my subordinate
and peers while performing business activities. By this I am able to manage difficult and
complex situations in a simplified manner. Also, due to my friendly, corporative and polite
nature I feel that I am capable to build a strong relationship with clients and subordinates and
seniors. Due to this, I feel that I am the suitable candidate for the position of sales executive in
THG Sports.
I posses high interest in research due to which I am capable to analyse the changing preference
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of customers and market in a proper manner. This will helps me in training ambitious
candidates regarding sales, due to which they will be capable to became good sales manager.
Beside this, I have interest in observing market strategies of different companies so that I can
improve my sales and marketing skills in a proper manner. At the time of my post graduation, I
have carried out 6 months internship as a sales personnel for a XYZ company. I have good
experience in lead and strategy development, due to which I am confident that I will be able to
develop aspiring candidates as next sales star. Job position offered by your company requires
persistent, goal driven and motivated candidate which entirely suits my working profile. Sales
tactics performed by me are legendary. During my previous job career, I have formulated an
ability to pitch my customers in a convincing manner.
When I had to sale new service or product, I have adopted a consultative approach to sales
cycle. In cases if candidates will not be satisfied by my explanations, I will remain analytical
and calm so that they can openly share their issues and queries with me. Also, you need
someone who can manage your business and relation with clients and prospects in a desired
manner so that repeated business can be achieved. For this purpose, I believe that hiring me is a
good option as I can enhance the experience of customers by providing them in-depth detail
about products and services. I have attached my CV so that information about my educational
qualification can be known to you.
I am thankful for your consideration and time. Feel free to contact me at (003)-23-222 and my
e-mail id is [e-mail]. I look forward a positive response form your side.
Thanks and regards
Daniel Jones
CURRICULUM VITAE
General information
Name- Daniel Jones
Address- ACD street, Thames,
England, UK– WQR 2XT
Contact no- (003)-23-222
Email id- [e-mail]
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Career objective- My career objective is to work for an organisation where I can contribute
towards organisational goals and targets along with further enhancement of my skills and
capabilities.
Educational background
Educational
qualification
School/ College University Grades
MBA XYZ college, London London University 3.8
BBA XYZ college, London London University 4.2
Secondary education EFG school, England Recognised board 4.3
High school EFG, school England Recognised board 4.2
Work experience – 6 moths internship at JYP group
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities (College)-
 Managing team of 8 people
 Member of Interaction Club
 providing knowledge to poor children in free
 Keeping a record of late Coming and Absence Report in lectures
 Maintaining academic and sport report of students
 Updating Monthly basis MIS Report of all candidates
 Maintaining Personal records of students
 Helping executives while preparing Audit presentation and other documentation
Roles and Responsibilities (Internship)
 Reaching required sales target
 Performing appropriate market analysis
 presenting data and information through presentation
 Converting figures and sales into data
Computer proficiency
 MS PowerPoint
 MS Word
 MS Excel
 HTML
 SAS
Skills and abilities
 Self motivation and fast learner
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 group working skills
 Strong analytical abilities and logical approach
 Strong observatory skills
 Good verbal and non-verbal communication skills
 Adaption to change in trends and technologies
 Appreciable problem solving skills
Technical Knowledge:
 Taxation
 Company Law
 Securities Law
 Labour Law
Personal information
Father's name: Nick Jones
Mother's name: Staffy Jones
Nationality: British
Date of birth- 25 June, 1996
Interests: Listening music, hiking, soccer
Natural Abilities
 Driven and energetic
 Sense of urgency
 Competitive nature
DECLARATION:
I declare that all provided information about me is accurate to my knowledge and all
the certificates issued by recognized board/university will be produced by me when required.
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APPLICATION FORM
Why do you want to work for us?
Marcus Evans LTD is a very famous business organisation having an superior corporate
reputation and share in the market all over UK. Being the business organisation based in London,
organisation is acknowledged to provide the best quality management training courses to the
candidates globally to develop strong managers with an organic growth structure. The
organisation mostly focuses on the importance of the human resources both in the terms of staff
as well as the corporate clients. The business organisation develops such policies and procedures
in which they focus on providing training to the employees to sell better. Also, the organisation
focus on teaching to create a effective working environment that helps the candidates in running
their businesses successfully in the future. This reflects that organisation works towards
satisfying the internal human resources so that can efficaciously succeed and satisfy the external
stakeholders and customer's of the business organisation. I am also looking for a organisation
where I can develop the tactics to use my skills and competencies in effective manner. I am
highly attentive and have strong analytical skills which are necessary to gain the knowledge
provided by the training programmes of Marcus Evans LTD. It promotes the atmosphere where
individuals can freely work in a team environment and develop a sense of connectedness among
themselves. I have worked in teams in past and excelled in the task assigned to us collectively.
Thus, I feel that this organisation totally matches with my behavioural attributes and skills and
will help me developing my capabilities and will complement my ideas and beliefs.
Tell us about a time you worked in a group to achieve an objective (what did you do and
what was the outcome?)
While I was in college, they organised a program for the World Youth Skills Day in the
auditorium. A competition was also organised by the college management. The students were
expected to work in a team of 10 members and were required to prepare a power point
presentation of 10 minutes. The presentation was to be based on the success achieved by any
multi-national business organisation of our choice. The presentation was to be carried out in
front of the whole college during the function. We decided to complete all the tasks and needful
preparation accompanying to the presentation in 4 meetings. In our first meeting, we
accumulated and discussed all the essential material for the PPT. Also, the allocation of tasks for
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every person was done in effective manner. I was allotted two tasks, one task include making all
the arrangements for the group meetings and second was to prepare the Presentation finally. Both
of them were challenging tasks. The complexity to arrange meetings was very tough as every
person had a different time table which make it difficult to arrive at a same time when all the 10
of us were free. By having individual conversations with all of them, I was able to arrange
meetings post which the persuasion and views in the relation to the subject matter were shared
and organised effectively. When all the essential data and numerical figures were successfully
organised, the team created a Power Point Presentation. At, the time of presentation in front of
the whole college, the college management praised us and also mentioned the in-depth
knowledge on which we worked.
Tell us about a time when you identified a new approach to solve a problem. (what did you
do and what was the outcome?)
When I was going through an internship program at the National Skills Society for a time
span of 9 months, I was once given a task to manage a team and to enhance the skills required to
manage the team in successful manner. I was required to provide every essential information
regarding regarding the project “impact of globalisation on marketing function of company” to
individuals in the team from non technical background. I had the time of one week to carry out
this task. I knew that if the data was presented in the technical terminology, it would not be
easily perceived by group. Thus, I planned to conduct a deep study about the survey and note the
results in an organised manner. This helped me in converting the technical data into feasible
language that could be easily interpreted by any person. Further, I decided to make a Power Point
Presentation so as to present data accumulated by me in a well organized manner for the team
members. I also made use of pie-charts, bar graphs and histograms so that data could be easily
analysed by them without much knowledge about subject matter. On final day of presentation,
the non technical working group was impressed by me. They complimented me for applying the
difficult task in a well organised manner and wished me luck for my future endeavours.
Tell us about a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and complete
a number of tasks in a short amount of time. (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
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During my graduation days in the college, I was given a project to be made upon a multi-
national company of UK and its working patterns. Also, I was asked to carry out some specific
task to improve the project that I submitted in the last semester. It was challenging for me to do
the precedence of the assigned tasks as I had my exams in the next coming weeks so I had to
manage my study in effective manner as well. Yet all these 3 tasks were urgent and required to
be carried out on urgent basis. Thus, I decided to ascertain time required for all the three tasks
and then decide their superiority while doing things. After calculating the individual time for all,
I decided that I will complete the old project first and then I will make certain modifications so
as to meet requirements of college management. Next on order list decided by me was the new
project that was allotted and lastly I decided to study for the exams. In this manner, I prioritised
all the assigned projects and successfully managed to complete every task in effective and
efficient manner.
Tell us about a project you worked on that required you to persuade others to your point of
view. (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
During my tenure at ABC college, as a part of my college assignment, I was made to
work with the group of 4 students in a team and we were asked to present “the effect of non
governmental organisations on welfare of society”. When the the topic was given to us, my team
mates thought that presenting the information on subject matter in form of written report would
yield positive results. They were of this view as in past, one of the teams in previous batch also
applied the same approach and attained maximum marks in class. I had a contrastive thought as I
considered about presenting the data in visual form by way of bars, charts and other statistical
tools and techniques. I planned to make a 1 minute demo of how I wanted the task to be
executed. When I presented my views in front of group by way of a PPT, they were confident
with my approach and I was eventually successful in influencing them to carry out the task
according to my view and belief.
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INTERVIEW PRACTICE
At the time of my graduation, my class was asked to attend a college seminar in which
different professionals and delegates from different backgrounds have came forward to discuss
their experience and views about interview process. The persons who were speaking during
seminars have focused on some specific points which are mentioned below:
 It is essential for students to bring their academies and work related documents during
interview. This will helps me in gaining attention of interviewer in an appropriate
manner.
 Proper gesture and body movement will helps me in impressing interviewer due to which
I can get competitive advantage over other candidates.
 I need to be have full confidence and positivity while interacting with interviewers.
 I am required to reach at interview location early then the scheduled time so that I can
show my sincerity regarding job and punctuality towards time.
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ASSESSMENT CENTRE PRACTICE
At the time of carrying out my graduation in the college, I attended a seminar that was
organised by the college faculty on the topic of interview and behaviour required to be
maintained during the process, for the help of the students and on the next day another seminar
was organized which helped in defining about the assessment centres. The major points reflected
in the seminar were:-
 When I went through the test at the assessment centre, it was required by me to stay
positive, confident and motivated to present the assigned task in well organised and
effective manner.
 Furthermore, it is was also important for me to possess an accommodative and instinctive
approach towards the assigned task that will help me in commencing the task in
accordance with the time as soon as it is assigned to me.
 Moreover, I should use formal and well-mannered language for making a good
conversation so as to be able to convey my views and thoughts in an efficacious manner
and leave an everlasting impression on the team.
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