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5 general questions and 2 competency questions. e.g. Give a brief overview of your career history, tell us a time when you've had to improve working conditions for the better, what would you do if you were faced with an angry customer.
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Editorial Assistant

Interviewed at Taylor & Francis Group

2.6★
Jun 30, 2017

5 general questions and 2 competency questions. e.g. Give a brief overview of your career history, tell us a time when you've had to improve working conditions for the better, what would you do if you were faced with an angry customer.

Basic knowledge: 1. Could you talk about your journey how you’ve arrived here and what motivates you to get here? 2. What do you know about publication process? 3. What attracted you this role? Competency questions: 1. How do you resolve conflicts at work? 2. What do you think are three most important skills for this job and what’s your strongest? 3. How did you complete the priority task (the written test)? 4. What would you say is the biggest challenge for this role? 5. When there's an issue, are you the kind of person who reaches out to solve it or you tend to wait for someone else to do it first, which approach do you take? 6. Could you share with us one contribution you did to the team? 7. What tasks do you tend to prioritize? What tasks do you tend to procrastinate? 8. What would you do when you feel overwhelmed? Personality questions: 1. How would your colleagues and manager describe you? 2. Share three things about you that are not on your resume
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Editorial Assistant (books)

Interviewed at Springer Nature

4★
Sep 11, 2025

Basic knowledge: 1. Could you talk about your journey how you’ve arrived here and what motivates you to get here? 2. What do you know about publication process? 3. What attracted you this role? Competency questions: 1. How do you resolve conflicts at work? 2. What do you think are three most important skills for this job and what’s your strongest? 3. How did you complete the priority task (the written test)? 4. What would you say is the biggest challenge for this role? 5. When there's an issue, are you the kind of person who reaches out to solve it or you tend to wait for someone else to do it first, which approach do you take? 6. Could you share with us one contribution you did to the team? 7. What tasks do you tend to prioritize? What tasks do you tend to procrastinate? 8. What would you do when you feel overwhelmed? Personality questions: 1. How would your colleagues and manager describe you? 2. Share three things about you that are not on your resume

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