I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Virgin Active in May 2016
Interview
Fit for VA day followed by 1-1 interview. The VA day was a group interview where you had to prove your skills as a coach. We did and instructed a variety of exercises, designed a group circuit class and had to come up with people who we thought would be good ambassadors to invite to the opening of a new gym. The interview process was very quick. I applied at night, recieved an invitation to come to the VA day less than 24 hours later. The interview was on the Friday, my follow up interview was 3 days later on the Monday, and my first shift was on Wednesday of the same week!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to correctly and safely instruct a variety of basic exercise movements.
Thank you for your review, it's great to hear about your positive experience! We do our best to create a positive environment and turnaround the process relatively quickly, so I'm pleased to hear we met your expectations on this case. I hope you're still enjoying your role with us. All the best, Jeanette
Positive experience
Average interview
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Virgin Active (Sydney)
Interview
I submitted my application online, received a follow-up call, and was then invited to attend a recruitment day. The recruitment day involved a series of activities including a tough work out.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Virgin Active (Londra, Inghilterra)
Interview
Informal interview, the interview went pretty well honestly I think I did pretty good. Then I received an email saying I was unsuccessful. No feedback.
So I can't really say why that happened.
I had the bad feeling that the guy just didn't like me because I was very keen at asking questions instead of being passive.
I think interviews should always be 50-50% is not just a selecting process, the other part has to take a decision too.
I felt like a number, and I think they only like people who commit to their company without asking and at any condition.
I was about to refuse the job anyway because of their bad business model ( for us PT). Please stop telling candidates that you had 50-70 sessions after 2 weeks, this is not only a lie and unrealistic, but disrespectful. Your PT have an average of 15 to 20 sessions per week, and they pay is very low.
A PT who can generate good numbers would surely work for himself and keep all the money. The fact that some people can be extremely successful doesn't mean that your business model is fair.
Please reconsider it.
Very low pay rate, basically working full time for nothing, and long and too selective employment process, this is not worth. You can be better than that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you generate clients? (they only care about numbers)
I applied online. I interviewed at Virgin Active (Londra, Inghilterra) in Feb 2018
Interview
There with 4 others candidates. Fitness Coach Manager and another Manager there. Introduction and then the F. Coach involved us in some sort of game where the purpose was to interact with each other. So, I’d suggest speak, interact, share your ideas with the others as this is part of the assessment. The Managers then showed us the gym. After that the F. Coach Manager asked what qualities we needed to greatly perform the role we applied for, and again, speak speak speak and show what your thoughts are about the entire thing.
Then practical assessment. In the Gym floor. 3 body weight exercise to perform each and teach the others.
I did all this 11 days ago, and I heard from them just today, while I was told they would have let us know after 4 days.
Other than that the F. Coach Manager who assessed us was very nice and tried his best to make feel us comfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which qualities I needed to greatly perform the role I applied for.
