Towers Watson

The application process is a critical first stage – you need to provide us with key information and answer honestly and accurately. Please ensure that you provide details of your education from secondary school level to most recent study including results whilst completing the application form.

The assessment of your application form falls in the following 4 parts:

1. Entry Criteria
   We’ll review your application carefully against our minimum entry requirements. It is very important that you complete the application form accurately and carefully and submit all relevant supporting documents. Failure to provide necessary information may result in your application being unsuccessful. Unfortunately if you do not meet these criteria, your application won’t be progressed to the next stage.
2. Cover Letter
   We are particularly interested in your reasons for applying to Towers Watson, how your skills and experience would help our business, and to know more about your background. Think carefully about the content of your covering letter as it should consist of no more than 3 paragraphs.
3. Long Answer Questions
   We’ll ask you some long answer questions which will have a character limit, so think carefully about the information you provide. We want to know more about how your skills and experience would help our business and how you have been developing yourself. It may help to think of STAR (Situation, Task, Action and Result). Make sure that you tell us HOW you achieved things and avoid being generic. Answers such as "I want to be an actuary" won’t get you your dream job.
4. Spelling and Grammar
   We pride ourselves on the quality of our work – which is why we also look for attention to detail in your application. Make sure that you check spelling, grammar and avoid text speak.

Our graduate and vacation roles at Towers Watson involve numerical analysis and attention to detail. To help us assess your ability in this area you will be asked to complete an online numerical and inductive reasoning test. We’d encourage you to take practice tests in order to gain an understanding of the layout and format of the questions.

Please be aware that if you are invited to the Face to Face Interview, you may be asked to complete a similar test again as verification of your original results.

The telephone interview is an opportunity for us to get to know each other a little better and for us to find out more about your skills and experience. Our experienced staff will be looking for what you’ve achieved and how you have achieved it. It may help to think of STAR: Situation, Task, Action and Result when answering questions where the interviewer is looking for examples from your past experience.

Remember to personalise your answers – if you talk in generic terms such as “we did this” and “team working is always important” we won’t get to know about you and the contribution you could make to Towers Watson.

The face-to-face interviews help us to get to know you even better and of course are also designed to help you understand more about Towers Watson, the work we do and the type of people we employ. Because we pride ourselves on our culture and cohesive team, there are a number of interviews with a variety of people from Human Resources and the relevant line of business.

Know about current issues related to Towers Watson before you arrive see our Corporate website, broadsheet newspapers and actuarial websites.

Remember help is available:

Reference checks are normally undertaken towards the end of our process, however, you may be asked to provide names and contact details for referees during the interview stage.