Recruitment session at Nestlé

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Dear Friends

I got a invitation from Nestlé Vevey for Recruitment session for Project engineer position

Its full day program and they have individual interviews and exercises

Please let me know anyone attended these type of recruitment session at Nestlé if yes ?

Please share with us your experience and How to prepare for this recruitment session, what type of question they ask? Exercises? etc.

Thanking you in advance

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Well, i have had a veeery bad experience with Nestle'recruitment sessions. It happened last year and it gave me the feelings that they are not serious.

Maybe you will be more happy than me.

I think Netsle is has one of the worst recruitment process because they think they are big and they are entitled to give a **** on candidates.

brgds,

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Hey,

despite this very bad experience what it was generally about?

what kind of questions...exercises ?

was it a final interview or just the beginning of recruitment process ?

Let us know if possible

I'm going there as well

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Recruitment can be very slow here.

I have not applied for Nestle, but for another big company here. 2 months later they finally replied, and invited me for first interview.

1 month later they came back for a second interview, and said if succesful, there would also be a THIRD interview.

I found another job in the meantime, and they sent me a questionnaire what my impression was, so at least i got the opportunity to tell them that it was too slow.

Wonderful when starting date in the advertising is ASAP

Doc.

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@Doctor

thanks for info... hope it will be more fast...

BTW...in the advert ASAP was mentioned as well ;d

Take care!

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ASAP can equal 9 months to a year here with some of these larger firms.

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I have not been through one of these recruitment sessions. However I have been through the interview process with Nestle before. I guess each department is different.

One thing I will say is that it is slow and they make you jump through hoops. I went for a permanent position, did a phone interview first. Then three weeks later two face to face interviews. One with the hiring manager and another with a HR manager and a department senior manager. I then had to wait another two weeks for them to reject me.

Funny thing is a few months later I went for a contract position. It was a did a 20 minute phone interview and got the job, without any additional interviews.

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Wow, makes my interview seem like a first date. I flew from Seattle to Lugano on a Saturday. Dorked around all Sunday and Monday. Interview on Tuesday a.m. like 10-12:30, brief lunch with director and group leader and that was it. What a hoot.

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Well my latest position, I applied in February, got an acknowledgement response in March. Nothing in April. An update start of May followed by a Telephone interview. Mid may 3 rounds of face to face interviews back to back. A week later got the job. Start in 10 days.

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Thanks for useful info.

Is it normal for them to pay for all your travel and lodging expenses when going for an interview (after telephone one)?

...that may give me an idea whether they want to employ me or its just a standard...

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I guess it depends where you are coming from. I was already a local so for me no way.

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They paid for me for flight plus hotel; flight out here on Saturday, and interview and flight back home on the Monday. I had to pay for my own meals though, and since they paid me out on the spot, I didn't get to charge them for airport parking, but that didn't matter.

Oh, I've just remembered an interview in the UK where they were paying my train fare. Cheeky blighters wanted my return ticket for their receipts - er how was I going to get back home?

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I'll need to take a train too... were you successful with your interview ?

Has anybody an idea how much approx. can get an engineer (1-2 years of experience) for entry position, but kind of specialistic, in Switzerland? (you can send me a private message as well)

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Yes I was successful thanks; that's what brought me here

Sorry, I'm not an engineer so am not familiar with the salary levels in that sector.

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I've searched older posts for starting engineering salaries in Switzerland, but couldn't find the one interesting to me.

Could possibly somebody shed some light about approximate, monthly and after tax, salary for an engineer (1-2 years of experience)?

It's entry position, but kind of specialistic.

Is it more about 4-5000CHF or 5-6000CHF monthly (after tax)? or maybe I should expect 7000CHF ? I need your advice to estimate my strengths better and feel comfortable during interview.

Thanks in advance.

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Difficult to judge, could you provide more information:

What kind of engineer are you?

Is your experience in the field you trained for?

Is this the same type of role?

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Production

Yes - 1 year and 1 more year similar experience

Yes

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I think all the amounts you stated are possible, I think it depends more on the size of the company you are hoping to be employed by.

I guess the more important question you need to start with is how much do you need to live on.

Also once you get a position your salary is going to rise year on year with the prospect of working your way up the ladder.

Not a definitive answer but hope it helps.

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Thanks magic.

The level of living is not that important for me.

I just want to be aware about appropriate salary for this position and to avoid being underpaid from the first entry (as I have noticed it from related posts).

Somebody has any more info ?

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Dear junior,

Did you attendted recruitment sesson ?

How was it ? what is next step ?

Give me some information about your session