Most candidates will apply via Applied, our recruitment platform, and we'll score your application based on job-specific questions, without knowing anything about your background. This is to ensure no bias creeps into our decision-making process and we can treat everyone fairly. We invite our top scorers for interview. This is usually scenario and competency-based with a written task or presentation. Sometimes there is a second interview where there's an opportunity to meet more of your potential future colleagues. 

Generally speaking, no, you don't. We look for transferable skills and potential as we know that subject matter can be learned. There are a few exceptions to this, where roles need a very specialised background, but we’ll tell you on the advert if that’s the case. 

We’ll make sure to get back to you either way, but the speed of that can be impacted by how many applications we receive – because we read every single one. Typically, it’s around one to two weeks after the advert’s closing date.