group activities in virtual assessment centres - just wondering if anyone could give any tips on how it works when there are lots of people? Do they break you into small groups? Is it hard to find space to say anything? Is it like on Teams when you can raise a hand? I'm terrified of cutting someone off as I know how nervous other candidates are. Do you tend to split task between smaller groups - or does the whole team work together?
From my experience there was 30 in total all split into 3 group of 10.
We were given a topic/debate question we were then split into sub groups of 5 picking either side (for or against)
You’d discuss pointers in your sub group of 4 others and chose who’s speak on which topic if it were to arise from the other side.
You’d then join your group of 10 and discuss. If an area that my group member said they’d speak about is mentioned but they’re struggling to speak bring them into the convo stating they have points on this area. Bring others into the conversation and don’t take the spotlight. we had an assessor who was watching us discuss our methods in our sub group.
There was the odd person who’d go on a tangent but you just gotta smile and say “that’s an interesting point however we thought…”.
I found my sub team worked together rather than against as we knew what we wanted to say and we wanted our side to look better and more coherent.
If you find you speak at the same time as someone apologise and let them speak you’d be invited to speak after them. Plus they may make a point you can expand on.
This was my experience but I know there are other type of group assessments.
In my one it felt as though some of the candidates were being difficult on purpose and really stubborn on their points which I found quite negative as it showed they couldn’t accept other opinions. Don’t be that person.