Year 12 Professional Interviews with PGIM
Having an interview – talking about yourself, your strengths, your areas for development, your ambitions and what motivates you – can be very intimidating for all of us, but all the more so if you’ve never had any practice. So it was a great opportunity for our Year 12s when graduate employees from PGIM’s Central London offices came into Preston Manor to run 1-1 Professional Interviews.
PGIM’s volunteer interviewers gave up an afternoon to spend with our students, conducting the interviews then providing individual written feedback.
While our students were a bit nervous beforehand, they impressed PGIM with their enthusiasm. Batoolah Dawreeawoo, who has been key to the successful running of this initiative commented: ‘All the PGIM interviewees were hugely impressed with the students and their overall confidence and found them to be very engaged, competent and talented. It is very encouraging to see the school nurture such bright students and we hope for the partnership with Preston Manor to continue for a long time.’
Feedback from our students was overwhelmingly positive:
‘It was an exceptional opportunity and I have gained invaluable insights with the experience of getting interviewed and have acknowledged my future improvement for any future interview’ commented Shaumika.
Farhan felt the experience was very helpful. ‘The interviewer gave me constructive feedback on how to answer the questions better, and she gave me some ideas to improve my CV.’
What Safiyah liked best was ‘Getting to understand how to develop my sentences to express ideas that I have and things about myself in a professional setting and also learning how to think under pressure and without revising answers. ‘
We would all like to thank Batoolah,Caroline and the team at PGIM for providing our VI Form with such a useful and rewarding experience!