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Royal Navy recruitment process
The stages of an application to the Royal Navy, what happens at each one and how to practise for the online tests.
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The Royal Navy recruitment process, stage by stage
Five stages, in the order we have them for the Royal Navy. The role and the intake can change them: the emails you get from the Royal Navy say what yours are.
Stage 1: Online Application
A form with your CV: your education, your work history and usually a few questions on why you want the role. Answer those in your own words, and check every date and grade before you send it.
Stage 2: Defence Aptitude Assessment
Sent by email, with a deadline that is usually a few days away. The score decides who goes on to the next stage. It is the one stage you can rehearse in advance.
Stage 3: Selection Interview
An interview, by video or in person, about your experience and why you want the role. Have a few examples of your own ready to describe.
Stage 4: Medical & Fitness Checks
The email that invites you to this stage says what it involves.
Stage 5: Admiralty Interview Board
An interview, by video or in person, about your experience and why you want the role. Have a few examples of your own ready to describe.
About the Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the United Kingdom's naval force and the oldest of its armed services. Its fighting arms are the surface fleet, the submarine service, the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines.
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Interviews and assessment centres
What usually happens at each, what we know and do not, and how to get ready for every stage.
What are the Royal Navy interviews like?
We do not know the questions the Royal Navy asks, and the invitation to each interview says how it will run. Most large employers interview twice: a short first interview, often recorded on video, and a longer final one in person or on a call.
In a recorded interview a question appears on screen, you get a short time to think, then a minute or two to answer, with no interviewer on the call. Expect questions that ask for an example: a deadline you met, a problem you solved, a time you changed someone's mind. The final interview goes further into why you want this role and what you know about the business.
What happens at an assessment centre?
An assessment centre is a day of exercises with other candidates, watched by a team of assessors, in an office or online. Most run a group exercise, a case study or written task, a short presentation and an interview.
Some employers also have you sit a shorter version of the online tests again, to confirm the first result. Every exercise is scored on its own, so a weak start can be made up later in the day. We do not know whether the Royal Navy holds one: if it does, the invitation lists the exercises and the times.
How do you prepare for each stage at the Royal Navy?
For the online tests, take timed practice tests of the kinds your invitation names, and work through the solution to each question you miss. The other stages are about what you have done and how you explain it.
For the interviews, have three or four examples ready from your studies and work, each with what you did and how it turned out. For the assessment centre, practise talking for a few minutes about something you have only just read, which is what a presentation exercise asks of you.
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We do not have the timings for the Royal Navy. At most large employers it takes from a few weeks to a few months from application to offer, and a graduate scheme with one start date a year can take longer. Each invitation has its own deadline, and that is the date to plan around.
We do not keep a list of Royal Navy vacancies: the careers site of the Royal Navy has what is open now. Most large employers run graduate programmes and internships with a yearly intake, and recruit for them through stages like the ones on this page.
At most employers the application ends there, for that role and that intake. Many let you apply again after a waiting period that their rules set out. So the time to practise is before you open the tests, not after.
Many large employers accept only one application at a time, or one a year for the same scheme. The careers site of the Royal Navy states its own rules, usually beside the application form.
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