Interview and selection day: content, schedule and selection criteria
Pleased to meet you! Here are some useful tips and information for your interview or selection day at Volkswagen.
What’s important to us and why we conduct interviews and selection days
Using our application process, we want to find out whether you fit into the team not only in terms of your technical expertise, but also personally. In our interviews, we’ll ask you various questions which you should answer using specific examples if possible. Ideally, these are examples from your own career, but you can also use other situations for this. What we want is to get to know you as a person so that we can make an assessment.
Example questions
- What values generally guide you?
- How do you approach complex topics?
- How do you respond to challenges and difficulties?
- How do you go about dealing with other people?
- In what form do you take responsibility?
- And how do you deal with self-reflection?
We also want to know what compliance and integrity mean to you personally, how you uphold them, and how you make sure that others uphold them.
Selection Day
If you apply for our StartUp Direct or StartUp Cross career entry programme, for the PhD programme or a job for experienced professionals and we like your application, we invite you to our selection day (for professionals or management entry) so that we can get to know you a little better.
Interview
If you apply for one of our entry opportunities for those at school (such as vocational trainings) or university (such as internships) and we like your application, the department invites you to an interview to get to know each other.
What happens during the interview with Volkswagen?
Your interviewers come from the department for which you are applying. It usually starts with you introducing yourself based on your career so far. You have about 5 minutes to do this. We then go into your career more closely and ask you, for example, about successes, failures and how you dealt with them. Depending on the entry level, we also ask you how you react in certain situations – and ideally you can give us actual examples. We’d also like to know a little about your professional goals.
Online or on site? This is where the interview takes place
The department decides whether the interview takes place online or whether we invite you to come to us.
- If the appointment is at our plant, we of course tell you in the invitation where to find us. An initial overview of how to get there is available here. Open directions
- For an online appointment, you need a computer, smartphone or tablet with a microphone and webcam, or a headset with integrated microphone, and of course a reliable internet connection. In case you have technical issues for whatever reason, we give you a dial-in phone number in addition to the dial-in link. Tips and hints for online interviews
German or English? Which language is actually spoken during the selection day or in the interview?
The selection days and interviews usually take place in German. For applicants from abroad, we also offer English as an option. If you apply for a position in a department where only English is spoken, the selection day or interview will be in English anyway.
And finally
We’re very much looking forward to meeting you.
