Telephone Interview (BT)

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I have a telephone interview with BT tomorrow for a summer internship in their finance department. I'm not really sure what kind of things they will ask as I've never had a telephone interview before, and they said it will last 40 minutes so I expect it will be fairly comprehensive. I've been told it will be a series of questions and will also be judging my level of interest in BT. I've no idea what aspects I need to look into and it's too late to get them to send me any information so I'll just have to get all I can from the website.

If anyone could give me any tips I'd be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.
 
I'm not sure how specific they'll want you to be but it wouldn't hurt to read up on the board and company stategy etc. I worked for them for a few years and they were very big on emails from Directors telling us about their latest visions. Ben Verwaayen came in a shook things up when I was there.

http://www.btplc.com/
 
I've had a few friends who had thelephone interviews for graduate positions with BT this year. Their graduate recruitment is actually run by accenture, dunno if internships are the same.

I'm guessing there will be some questions along the lines of 'what motivates you to work in this industry / for this company?'

'what challenges do you think the company will be facing in the short, medium and long term?'

...erm I've run out of ideas

There will also probably be competency based questions....'tell us about a time when you:

1 - something about being a leader
2 - something about working in a team
3 - something about customer focus
4 - something about meeting demanding deadlines
etc etc


A word of warning - two people on my course got emails from BT offering them a job. Then 10 mins later another one saying they hadn't been successful.
 
In my interview for my apprenticeship with BT the Q's they asked regarding the company were the products offered and what the share price was, plus the usual stuff of "why do you want to work for us?". So brush up on the products mentioned on bt.com and have a quick look at the share price on the morning of the interview and that should about cover it.
 
I work for BT (though not in anywhere fancy alas), and they seem to be hot on 'convergence' at the mo, with products like BT fusion and the new video on demand top box that'll soon be coming out. Check out Ben Verwayens latest pronouncements (he actually seems a good guy, my mate had terrible trouble with BT broadband, I emailed Ben direct and the next thing my mate was fending off calls to help sort out his problems left right and centre).
 
Just had it. They didn't ask me anything about BT at all, and I had a list of questions with bullet point answers none of which came up either.

I think I managed to do okish though.

Thanks again for the help guys :)
 
Questions like "when have you had to ask for help?", "when have you been in a leadership role?" etc
 
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