I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Youth Villages (Arlington, MA) in Nov 2015
Interview
To apply for a job you go online and fill out a pretty generic application.
You then get an email or phone call asking you to come in
They call this an "open house interview". You come in and check in in the main building and are walked to a conference room (this is the same room you'll have weekly meetings & CPR and random movie nights when you're hired)
They explain GL and the different programs on campus. Different managers come in and split people up. I had my interview in a group home.
we went to their office and they asked me questions like, "what would you do if..." and "tell me about a situation when..."
Most people are hired on the spot. The turnover rate is crazy fast.
There will then be a two week training in Woburn
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me a lot of questions about how to prevent crisis situations. "A girl was mean to another girl and she seems really agitated"
You go through two different interview processes where they ask about previous experience and a bunch of scenario questions. The second one involves a one hour observation. I was offered a position the same day as the second interview.
The interview for this position was straight forward. I met with the cottage supervisor as well as program manager to answer questions about my education and experience. There is only one round of interviews for this role.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Youth Villages
Interview
3 interviews
Phone, 2 in person
A ton of situational questions
The interviews aren’t very hard. They are going to ask about previous experience with children and the why behind working at youth villages. (Why do you want to work with children with mental illness and behavioral issues?)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you ever told your supervisor something that you didn’t have to tell them? Give an example.
Teacher Counselor applicants have rated the interview process at Youth Villages with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Teacher Counselor roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 20 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Youth Villages overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Youth Villages as a Teacher Counselor according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 17%
Phone interview: 15%
Drug test: 15%
One on one interview: 15%
Group panel interview: 11%
Skills test: 11%
Presentation: 7%
Other: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Personality test: 2%
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