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- you should refer to those situations when you have an opportunity to be a leader
or worked in a group - you should show your managerial competencies understand
as a leader abilities and other soft skills, but remember show that you were the BOSS
of a project - keep in mind Unilever 5 competencies and try to indicate them in your
answers, all of them or at least few
3) What qualities do you posses that would be suited for the role.
4) Why Unilever
5) Why FMCG
7. why FMCG
and the last question was something like why do you want to become a
leader ( refer to their standards of leadership)
4) Why Marketing?
5) Why FMCG industry?
6) Describe the main competitors of Unilever, and how Unilever has the
competitive advantage.
7) There are many different areas in the marketing programme, where do you
want to work in the most?
Describe a situation where a project didn't go well and how you dealt
with it
Describe a time when you went out of your way to meet customer
satisfaction
Customer Focus - time you did something different from your norm, in order
to satisfy a customer
Bias for Action - time you had to make a tough decision quickly and
convince people to go with your decision
Building Talent & Teams - time you had to assign tasks to people based on
their different abilities
Also, few questions such as why Unilever and what are your weaknesses
time when you had use your analytical skills, did some research and proposed
a course of action;
10) Describe a time when you've been completely responsible for something
Tell me about a time when you leaded a team. What was the task, and what
was your role and what was the outcome.
1.innovation time
2. leadership qualities
4. involve in conflicts
your answer using the STAR approach, however focus on what Actions you took
and give as many details as you can on how you convinced the group to go your
way or how you organised that task and so on. I can't stress enough how
important this is, basically that's the only thing that matters to them.
these will be divided into SIX different categories, and the interviewer will use a
layering technique - asking you about your answer and wanting to develop it further.
There were a lot of leadership and teambuilding questions and including one where
they'll asks you about how you contributed to a situation where the project did not
go so well, and how you reacted in it.
Read up on the latest FMCG and marketing news and be prepared to talk about your
favourite Unilever products and why you so passionately want to be one of their
minions.
Don't just say 'oh because I am interested in the way people think', it needs to be
more specific and related to Unilever.