P&G - Marketing or Consumer market knowledge

Procter & Gamble ([url=http://www.wikijob.co.uk/wiki/procter-gamble]Procter & Gamble | WikiJob[/url]) is a good company that make pretty much everything you can buy in the supermarket. You'll be getting a lot of freebie products from your job, which should be pretty interesting generally.

[U][B]Graduate Jobs at P&G[/B][/U]

[B]Hours:[/B] P&G have moderately flexible working hours. You are hired to work 40 hours/week which in practice usually becomes about 50 to 70 hours/week.

[B]Salary:[/B] Graduate training salaries start at between £25 - 27K. There are reasonably good benefits including company pension scheme and healthcare (but not dental) although there is no signing on bonus and no bonuses until you've worked for the company for at least five years.

[B]Travel:[/B] Unlikely to be out of the office much during your first 2 - 3 years, and even after this.

[B]Dresscode:[/B] Employees wear business casual for internal meetings and business wear for external meetings.

[B]Career progression:[/B] P&G employs a team of people to plan out career moves within the company. Its important for you to promote
yourself with your manager to ensure your career path is being planned in the same way you have planned it.

[B]Secondments:[/B] Secondments to European HQ's (e.g. Geneva) are
common after 2 - 5 years although not usually during graduate training.

[B]Holiday:[/B] Graduates get about 25 days per year (differs slightly between 20 - 25 depending on areas of company) and one additional "comapny" day - everyone gets this off. If you end up working on a Saturday or Sunday (which you are likely to have to do at some point) you can claim back 1.5 holiday days in lieu of the 1 day worked - which is actually a great way to build up extra holiday/get paid more.

....I don't know exactly what you'd be doing working in marketing/consumer market knowledge. CMK - this sounds like you'd be analysing a lot of consumer surveys and finding out what extent products are known about/understood by the general public. What kind of people buy what, etc. Marketing would probably be deciding what marketing/sales techniques to use to sell certain products, using the information drawn from CMK as your guide....

If you find out more on this please do post it up here. P&G is a good place to work and plenty of 2.1 + quality grads work there, so it is (moderately) fun! If you get an interview here, don't forget to use [url=http://www.wikijob.co.uk/wiki/procter-gamble-interview-questions]Procter & Gamble Interview Questions | WikiJob[/url] to help you! Good luck!

Ed

Has anyone applied to, or is anyone working at Procter & Gamble? ..would be good to get some input from interviewees / current trainees...

Hey there!

I have just finished my online assessments. Applied for Branding & Marketing. The tests are different for each division. For the former, there was a personality test and a logical reasoning test. The latter only had a personality test. Very odd since Marketing sounds rather numerate from the description. Perhaps they have a 'real' test later.

A friend works there and it seems like they are quite good to their employees (ranked one of best places to work on Fortune) so am quite excited about the place.

Are you applying too?

Hi guys,

P&G is indeed a great company to work for! I recently went through the entire application process, and am willing to share pointers with serious applicants. Good luck!

Hi guys,
I have applied for Assistant Brand Manager position, just before Xmas. I have completed personality and logical reasoning test. But it's been a month now and I there is still no response from them. Have any of you had the same problem? I tried to contact them, but couldn't find any tel phone num or email address of their recruitment team anywhere on website. Any help would be very much appreciated. THnx

Stenacity - can you tell us about your interview process on this thread? That would be incredibly useful!

Hi, I am applying through a special university process called the warwick challenege. I have just submitted my application and have been directed to a screen which says I have to complete the P&G Management Success Drivers Assessment and a Reasoning test. Are these tests similar to what accounting/banking firms use etc? Does anyone have any advice on this area??

Thanks

Re: interview process, please refer to the WikiJob page on P&G Interview Questions. I posted most of the questions that were asked of me during my interviews. Other useful information on the Online Questionnaire, Reasoning Test, etc. can be found on the Application Process page.

Best advice for applicants heading into the interviews: As with any behavioural interview, practise, practise, practise! Look at the behavioural questions I posted, and formulate an example for each. Practise your examples with a friend. Make sure your answers are in the STAR/SAR/PAR (Situation-Task-Action-Result) format, and emphasise what YOU did and what YOU achieved versus what your colleagues did and achieved.

And as a word of caution, 1) do not make stuff up, as you will be asked very detailed follow-up questions; and 2) make sure you have more than one example lined up for a question, in case your interviewers ask you to draw from your other experiences.

Hi Stenacity,

Thank you for giving us very valuable advice with regards to the P&G selection process. I would be grateful if you could answer the following question: Does the Reasoning Test include questions involving logical patterns, similar to those included within the online test that everbody has to go through prior to being invited for the Reasoning Test? Or is it purely numerical and verbal reasoning questions?

Thank you very much.

Hi laurac,

Apologies for the late reply. Yes, the written Reasoning Test includes a figure-based reasoning section identical to the online test. It's basically more of the same. If you did OK on the online test, you shouldn't have a problem with that part of the written test. Hope this helps.

Hi!
I've applied for CMK in 3 different places, so I'm trying to muster up the confidence to do the 3 assessments. Can anyone give any advice or examples of the questions? I'm wondering how much time I should put of for doing these assessments. Also do they include a reasoning/logic part?
I've been reading (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1182325.html) how others have been fairly ill-treated by the whole P&G application process.

I've also heard that if you fail the test you can't apply for a year so I'm really nervous =(
After reading the tips on this page I feel confident in preparing for the interview (if it goes that far) but for the actual assessment I feel unprepared.

Any advice or insight would be much appreciated!

//Mike

Hi Mike,
I've applied for a CMK position before and taken the assessments. The first one, the management success drivers, is fairly painless as long as you answer truthfully. The questions are mainly about your past employent and how involved you were. Such as: In comparison to others, how many times were you recognized for developing good ideas? much more often, more often, about as often, less often, or never. OR, to what extent have friends/colleagues come to you for advice? a great extent, a large extent, as often as others, a less extent, or never. Etc... Like I said, as long as you answer truthfully and have examples to back it up you're ok, because apparently the interviews ask the same stuff and want specific examples. (I haven't made it that far yet, but here's hoping.)

As for the reasoning screen, it's a timed test of about 15 questions concerning shapes and numbers. You can't start and stop, like with the success drivers, and it takes about 30 mins or so. I highly recommend taking it in a place with no distractions, especially if you are easily distracted.

Also, if you are applying for the same position, just in a different location, they use the answers from only the original assessment, so don't worry about having to take the assessments 3 different times.

I hope this info is useful to you.
Nina

Hi stenacity,

How well does one have to do on the online Reasoning Screen? I think I may have missed 2-3 questions out of the 15, so I'm a little worried...

Thank you!

Hello to all the above peers! :)

Since I haven't had a lot of experience in the reasoning screen before, I have no idea what do u guys mean by 'numbers and shapes..' Can someone explain the rule more clearly please? Is there anywhere I can download the test to practice as well?

Many many thanks!

Hi! I just applied for that position on my country and I was wondering if P&G finally gave you an answer or what. How much did you had to wait for the acceptance/reject message? Thanks a lot!

Hey, I have been invited for the P&G commercial career academy(MKT&Sales) 2010. Is there anyone who attended this before? Can you please enlighten me with how the process is like or any advice on what to expect? Thank you very much in advance. Any feedback is appreciated!

Hi guys,

I've just received an email about P&G Management Success Drivers Assessment. I applied for R&D job, any idea what sort of questions I will get ?

Thanks
Zohreh