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Apprentice SJT

This Situational Judgement Test assesses behaviours critical to success in apprentice and intern roles, including purposeful engagement, creating clarity, meeting expectations and professional credibility, alongside communication, problem-solving and teamwork.

Candidates work through 16 scenarios, selecting the most and least appropriate response from four options for each. The test is untimed and typically takes up to 15 minutes, and is designed for apprentices, interns and emerging talent.

Duration
Approximately 15 minutes
Untimed
Scenarios
16
Format
Video scenarios
Competencies
Purposeful Engagement, Creating Clarity, Meeting Expectations, Professional Credibility
Norm group
2019 Job Applicants
Reports
3 samples
See below

Try a sample question

These are the practice questions a candidate sees before the Apprentice SJT starts. Have a go — the answer and an explanation appear after each one. Nothing is recorded.

Transcript of the scenario

You are writing new content for your company's website to advertise the intern programme to prospective candidates. Your manager should approve all new content before it is published, but you have just found out they are off sick. Your deadline for this work is today and, if it does not go up onto the site, then you will miss the opportunity to attract the best candidates. What do you do?

Select the response you believe is MOST appropriate and the response you believe is LEAST appropriate.

MostLeast
Approach your manager's boss to see if they have the time to review and sign it off
Publish the content you have produced so that you do not miss your deadline
Send an email to your line manager with the content attached and call to make sure they pick it up
See if there is somebody else who can approve the information that you want to submit

Sample reports

Real reports generated for a sample candidate through the same pipeline a live sitting goes through.

PDF
Sample Recruitment Report
See a real example of the confidential report the hiring team receives -- percentile, band and interpretation for each competency.
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PDF
Sample Candidate Report
See a real example of the feedback report a candidate can be sent -- no scores, plain-language development advice.
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PDF
Sample Interview Guide
See a real example of the interview guide -- probe questions for each competency, ready for the panel.
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