I applied online. I interviewed at Elsevier in Aug 2018
Interview
I applied online, within two days I was asked if I was available for a telephone interview. This particular role stated that experience was not necessary as training would be provided, thus, graduate applicants were welcome to apply. However, during the telephone interview I felt this was not the case. The rather condescending interviewer knew I did not have publishing experience but continued to ask questions only someone who had worked in publishing would really know (which is what she would say whenever I would answer a question incorrectly), so in the end it felt like a waste of time.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Elsevier (Londres, Inglaterra) in Oct 2017
Interview
Met with two interviewers, one was another Editorial Assistant (found it strange I was being interviewed by a potential peer) and the Operations Manager. Interview lasted about 30-40 minutes and they asked fairly specific situational questions which I'd never come across and found quite difficult. They also specifically asked the names of some of the journals they published. They then gave me a task to write an email response to an angry author who was threatening to withdraw his manuscript. I had five minutes to complete the task before they came back in and took it away whether it was finished or not.