Our interviews

Questions to find out about your actual experience, and how you may behave in the future. For example, "Tell me about a time when you gave great customer service?".

Talking through your CV, beginning with your first role and ending with your most recent one. This is a particularly useful way of clarifying your work history, key achievements, and why you have made particular career choices.

A combined biographical and behavioural interview will give us an all round picture of your skills and experience in one sitting.

This is a good way for us to find out what makes you tick and whether you fit into our culture.

Great if we need to measure your aptitude and skill in particular areas - for example your ability to work with numerical information and your capacity to learn.

We create a work related scenario and see how you handle it - do you demonstrate the judgment and behavior that we are looking for? How do you get on with other people?

We give you an example of a real life work problem - to see how you handle situations.

If we want to measure your ability to influence events and proceedings, we might ask you to make a presentation on a specific topic and then decide: Did you engage us? Did you hold our interest? Did you show a level of creativity in your presentation? Were you confident and articulate?

For roles with a strong element of teamwork, these are useful in assessing did you work together with others to solve a problem.

These are great if we are recruiting a lot of people for similar roles. Usually they last half a day and consist of a number of the methods already explained. At the end we will have a pretty good picture of you and whether you're a good fit to represent the Virgin brand.

• We are a simple bunch here, so we love it when you keep your answers concise and clear.
• You are also interviewing us - we like it if you have lots of questions or challenge our thinking.
• Consider the 5 questions you are most likely to get asked and how you might answer them.
• Relax. We're quite nice really, we don't want to trick you and we always want people to shine and do well at interview.
• Leave plenty of time to get here - we're about 15 mins walk from North Sydney train station.
• Write down the name of your agency or contact at Virgin in case you need it.
• Remember who to ask for when you get to reception.
• Avoid too much garlic for breakfast and stay away from fizzy drinks that may lead to excess gas 'popping up' to say hello. We love nature, but not that much.