I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Enterprise Mobility (Honolulu, HI) in Dec 2012
Interview
Met the recruiter at a job fair and gave her my resume. Two days later she called and did a preliminary over-the-phone interview, which I passed. I then got invited for the first round of interviews to the HR office. Interview lasted about 1 hour, next up is the interview with the area manager.
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Enterprise Mobility
Interview
Pretty simple. Applied through their website, using the usual application processes. Got a call from the local Recruiting manager to set up a phone interview. We went through the process pretty quickly.
The phone interview was on the shorter side, basic questions "Why do you want to work for Enterprise?" Name a time you faced adversity in a previous job and how did you handle it?" Blah-blah, nothing out of the ordinary. If you've had any job interviews before, there are no curveballs to be had here.
So after that, I apparently did well enough over the phone where the recruiter wanted me to come in for an in-person interview a couple days later. The sit-down was pretty much the same thing. Standard behavioral questions with the recruiter. If anything, she asked similar types of questions, but asked me for additional experiences aside from what I told her in the phone interview. So make sure you have enough options handy to deal with that, if you're used to using your favorite stories like I am. Of the three interviews, this was probably the most in-depth and required the most out of me. The Recruiting Coordinator in my area was a really nice woman, so it was easy to relax into a more conversational style back-and-forth, rather than the strict Q&A mode. Again, we hit it off well enough that she invited me back for another round two days later.
The third phase was an observation, of the branch inside that main management office, followed by an in-person interview with the area manager of that region. The observation was interesting, though it was a fairly slow day (at the slower time of day to boot) so I didn't get the best taste of the going-ons. But everyone working there was friendly and easy to talk to and you could get a taste of the culture of the workplace easy enough. Then after about an hour of observing, I went into the in-person with the area manager. Like everyone else he's an easy guy to talk to. Similar cookie-cutter questions, "Tell me about Job experience X" "Name a time where you ______". It was not as in-depth at the 2nd interview (first in-person) but there was a little more intimidation factor, talking to the Area manager (aka, one of your future bosses). So it was still a tough interview.
I was honestly surprised I was offered a job on the spot by the Area Manager at the end of that final interview. I expressed how much I appreciated the offer, but asked for a couple days to review everything and make sure I had my affairs in order elsewhere before making an official acceptance. He was very accomodating to that, and I ended up calling and accepting the job a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No specific questions, but throughout the process you may have to answer similar questions repeatedly, so have more than one "story" or experience to draw on, to avoid repeating yourself across the multiple interviews.