Interviews and assessments
After the application form, most UK graduate schemes run some mix of online tests, a video or phone interview, an assessment centre and a final interview. These guides take each stage in turn: what employers are testing for, how competency answers are judged, and how to prepare for reasoning and judgement tests.
For a specific employer, our graduate scheme pages list the stages each programme runs, taken from the employer's own careers pages.
10 guides, newest first. How we write and correct them
Situational judgement tests: the 2026 guide for UK graduate applicants
What a situational judgement test measures, the formats UK employers use, how SJTs are scored, and how to prepare honestly, with worked examples and Fast Stream 2027 timing.
Practising Out Loud: Why Mock Interviews Work Even When You Know the Answers
Knowing the STAR method and being able to deliver it under pressure are different skills. What actually improves with live mock interview practice, and what doesn't.
The 15 Most Common UK Graduate Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them)
The fifteen questions UK graduate interviewers actually ask, grouped by what each is really testing, with answer strategies and the eight preparations that cover them all.
Assessment Centres Explained: What Happens and How to Prepare
What actually happens at a UK graduate assessment centre: the exercises, what assessors are scoring while you speak, and how to prepare in the week or two you're given.
How to Answer 'Tell Me About Yourself' in a UK Graduate Interview
A 60-to-90-second structure for the interview's first question: present, past, future, with worked examples for UK graduate interviews and the mistakes that feel safe but aren't.
Watson Glaser Test Explained: What It Is and How to Actually Pass It (2026)
What the Watson Glaser test is, how its five sections are marked, the trap hiding in each one, and a one-week plan to pass it for law and graduate applications.
The 2026 Graduate Interview Has Changed: What They're Really Testing For
AI rewrote the graduate application, so employers moved the real test to the interview. What UK interviewers now probe for in 2026, and how to prepare.
Watson Glaser practice: what UK firms test (and how to prepare)
The five sections of the Watson Glaser critical thinking test, why law and grad schemes use it, and a practical way to practise without burning out.
STAR method for UK competency interviews
How UK competency interviews are scored, how to structure answers with STAR, and how to handle the follow-up probes that trip people up.
STAR method: a tactical guide for UK grad interviews
How to answer "Tell me about a time…" in UK graduate interviews without waffling: what each STAR letter needs, the mistakes that cost marks, and a worked example scored side by side.
Data and tools for this topic
- Graduate schemes, stage by stageTests, interviews and assessment centres per employerData
- How to pass a one-way video interviewFormats employers use, and how to practise themGuide
- UK application deadlinesClosing dates checked against each employer's own siteData