What Does P&G Look For

• Leadership
  • Envision – Creates future vision, enrolls others, alignment, and Commitment
  • Engage – Builds Relationships and Collaboration
  • Energize – Inspires you to deliver the future
  • Enable – Builds your capability to achieve better business results
  • Execute – Deliver outstanding results
• Strong academic achievement
• Meaningful work experience
• Ability to work effectively with diverse groups of people

• Review P&G’s Success Drivers for additional information
  

Key Points to Remember

• Prepare
• Use your best examples
• Frame responses in CAR (Context, Action, Results)
• Focus on YOUR specific action and articulate clearly
• Communicate results; quantify whenever possible
• Be prepared to be probed—don’t feel defensive
• Be confident, interested, well organized, relaxed but not casual
• Maintain eye contact

Initial Interview

Initial interviews are about getting to know one another. To learn more about your talents and capabilities, our interviewers will ask about your past experiences and accomplishments. Our interviews are unique in that they’ve been designed to predict the likelihood of a successful fit between you and P&G. As part of the interview, you will also have the opportunity to ask us questions and learn more about P&G.

Most initial interviews last around 45-60 minutes, but there are no strict time limits.

• You will meet with a current SuccessWay Co-op before the interview
• Interview may be One-on-One or Panel
• Interview styles vary
• All interviewers look for examples that provide evidence of abilities

In Person Assessment

During the initial interview you will be required to take a Reasoning Test – This is a paper-and-pencil test, lasting 65 minutes. This test is delivered on campus as part of your Initial interview, this test measures your reasoning skills using three types of questions. Click here to learn more about the test and to take a practice reasoning test

Final Interview

At this step, we take time to explore your interests in greater detail and offer you more exposure to our culture and our people. After this final round of interviews, we’ll notify you of our decision. Final interviews allow us to:

• Take time and explore interests in greater detail
• Offer you more exposure to our culture and our people
• Learn more about you personally
• Ask job-related interview questions to discover capabilities
• Explore past behavior, key accomplishments and other information
• Provide P&G insights and answer questions

1-2 weeks after final interview, you’ll receive an email communicating your outcome

Successful Candidates:

• You receive an offer for the specific open position for which you interviewed for
• You are placed in a pool with other qualified candidates and your file is shared with hiring managers specific co-op assignments
• You will be contacted to arrange additional interviews, if necessary
• Your file remains active for one year
• You may withdraw from the process by contacting the SuccessWay Co-op Coordinator

Unsuccessful Candidates:

• You receive an email informing you
• You are eligible to reapply in one year