Reckitt Benckiser » hardwork http://www.myrbopportunity.com Reckitt Benckiser, RB, the company that makes Vanish, Airwick, Finish, Veet and many leading brands… whatever you’d like to call us, we’re one of the world’s fastest-growing companies in household, health and personal care products. We want to give you a window into our world and see what ‘opportunity’ means to us. We’re one of those places where no two days are the same, where you’re expected to put your money where your mouth is, challenge the status quo, and do it fast. Whatever ‘it’ is. Our bloggers will be sharing with you their thoughts and experiences to give you a real understanding of the breadth of global opportunity here and the diversity of RB, Many will be people who are on graduate or management trainee programmes and some will be well established in their careers here. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:33:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Our magical sales convention in … http://www.myrbopportunity.com/2010/05/04/rb-brazil-sales-convention-in http://www.myrbopportunity.com/2010/05/04/rb-brazil-sales-convention-in#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 22:01:28 +0000 Nicole http://www.myrbopportunity.com/?p=4933

Take a look at this short Power Point presentation – it´s explains a little bit about how exciting the RB sales convention was.

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Exciting sales convention, you ask?
Yes! After a lot of hard work we managed to have a lot of fun . . .

Just click on the red box here to find out where we were taken . . .  You’ll see what I mean!

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Five years after going through the RB Graduate Assessment centre myself I participated as one of the Assessors yesterday. It felt odd being on the other end of the process but I thoroughly enjoyed it and it gives me great satisfaction to know I’ve inputted into this year’s intake.

We deliberated hard on a couple of the candidates (in this photo) but we found what we were looking for.

I have to say it really is a gruelling process for the candidates to get onto the RB grad scheme. Before this final RB assessment centre they all had to go through a telephone interview and previous assessment centre with our recruitment agency, and this day was very stretching.

From 9am to 5pm the day was back to back with a mixture of assessments, both group and individual exercises and interviews. Each exercise is designed to test a specific RB competency and the day is scheduled to allow all the assessors to see all the candidates to ensure a fair decision is made.

It’s critical that we get the highest possible calibre of graduates into the business as we are looking for our future senior leaders so expect to be really pushed!
If youre coming to an RB assessment centre my tips would be:

 

-Relax, it’s your time to shine and we want you to succeed, so don’t let nerves get the better of you.

 

-It’s a cliché but be yourself and act naturally. Its very obvious when candidates try to second guess what we are looking for and then ‘perform’ to deliver, and it always goes against them

 

-The harder you find it the better youre doing as we will keep challenging you to see how you perform under pressure. Take it as a compliment and thrive under the challenge. You shouldn’t find the day easy!

 

-Take each exercise as it comes and again, try not to second guess the competency being tested. Some candidates yesterday second guessed and then underperformed. It was a shame as had they not had this in the back of their mind they would have excelled

 

-You’ve worked hard and achieved a lot to get to this stage, enjoy it!

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