London 2012 Gamesmaker Nursing Interview

[angistraff]

Hello!

I applied an age ago to volunteer as a nurse at London 2012, and found out I have an interview in a few weeks. I am very excited, but also very nervous, as I know they've had thousands of applicants and only have a few hundred vacancies.

I wondered if anyone else had been to one of these selection events and could tell me what to expect? It's a 90 minute session with a 30 minute interview, which seems a long time, and I'm wondering what they fill it with!

Thanks for any tips!

[Toon_RGN]

Hi angistraff I've just had my interview at the Baltic in Gateshead, the interview I had consisted of 4 questions

1 tell me about yourself

2 what can you offer the olympics

3 how do you work as a team player

4 any other personal qualities

I spoke to the medical director whom was at the interviews and she told me that they needed 400 nurses.

When you arrive you register, then have a look around the wall with loads of info about the event and past events, you then watch a short film 10mins, then you have a interview lasting between 20-30 mins, and that's it, a very laid back 1.5 hrs

[ZippyGBR, BSN, RN]

and when it all goes wrong perhaps LOCOG will come begging to the 'too expensive' , 'not relevant' , 'not effnic enuff' organisations who were eliminated in favour of the in-house bid rather than the volunteer organisations who provide provide crowd event cover day in day out year round ....

Enjoy the invisible 'Disney-style' medical cover which will delay effective care and leave the public in the hands of ill trained none experts exponentially increasing the work load of the Volunteer HCPs and the LAS ...