Teacher Counselor applicants have rated the interview process at Youth Villages with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Teacher Counselor roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 20 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Youth Villages overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Youth Villages as a Teacher Counselor according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 17%
Phone interview: 15%
Drug test: 15%
One on one interview: 15%
Skills test: 11%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 4%
Personality test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Youth Villages (Douglasville, GA) in Jan 2014
Interview
I contacted the company recruiter for the Douglasville, Georgia campus. I spoke with her, Amanda Jordan and submitted to her my resume, references, and cover letter. I spoke with her on the phone to answer a few preliminary questions about the job. I answered questions about my availability and about my willingness to work odd hours. I was invited, after a few days, by email, to the main campus to tour it and to conduct and in-person interview. This interview consisted of questions about my education and prior work experiences. It also included questions about hypothetical scenarios involving youth and about how I would react/respond to them. I heard back from Amanda Jordan approximately two weeks later, requesting my college transcript and inviting me back to campus for observation of the unit I was applying to work with. After observation, and one last talk with Amanda about how the observation went, along with a question and answer round, I was told I had gotten the job! I went through two weeks of training and orientation and a week of on the job training before I was considered a full-time employee.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you ever encountered a situation with a child that you did not feel as though you could handle and what did you do about it?
You go through two different interview processes where they ask about previous experience and a bunch of scenario questions. The second one involves a one hour observation. I was offered a position the same day as the second interview.
The interview for this position was straight forward. I met with the cottage supervisor as well as program manager to answer questions about my education and experience. There is only one round of interviews for this role.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Youth Villages
Interview
3 interviews
Phone, 2 in person
A ton of situational questions
The interviews aren’t very hard. They are going to ask about previous experience with children and the why behind working at youth villages. (Why do you want to work with children with mental illness and behavioral issues?)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you ever told your supervisor something that you didn’t have to tell them? Give an example.