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Interviewing at EcoVadis
Welcome and congratulations on reaching the interview stage. We have created this guide to help you prepare and shine during your interviews with us. We want you to feel confident, comfortable, and ready to showcase your skills and experience.
Before Your Interview
Preparation is key to a successful interview. Here’s how you can get ready:
- Understand Our Purpose and Values
Familiarize yourself with EcoVadis’ purpose, vision and mission. Take some time to review our core values. - Explore Our Solutions
Learn about our different enterprise solutions and sustainability assessments. A basic understanding of how we help businesses will enable a more productive discussion. - Review Our Impact
Look into our annual reports, case studies, social media and news releases to understand our global reach and the impact we’re making. - Connect to Your Role
Think about how your skills and experience align with EcoVadis’ mission and the specific role you’ve applied for.
- Key Responsibilities
Break down each responsibility listed in the job description. - Required Skills
Note all the technical, soft, and industry-specific skills mentioned. - Prepare Examples
For each key responsibility and skill, think of specific examples from your past experience where you demonstrated them. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to structure your answers.
- Questions types
- Behavioral: These assess how you’ve handled past situations by connecting impactful experiences to role competencies.
- Situational: These assess how you would react to hypothetical scenarios such as team disagreements, customer feedback or project risks.
- Technical: These are often role-specific and assess particular knowledge or skills such as coding, data analysis or sales strategy.
- “Why EcoVadis?” and “Why this role?”
Be ready to articulate your genuine interest in EcoVadis’ purpose and how this specific role aligns with your career aspirations.
- Demonstrate Engagement
Asking insightful questions shows your genuine interest and helps you assess if EcoVadis is the right fit for you. Examples include questions about team challenges, growth support, team culture, daily responsibilities, and how the role contributes to EcoVadis’ mission. - Expectations
We encourage you to share your expectations with us as you compare EcoVadis to other opportunities. This will help us clarify our approach and work towards meeting your needs, enabling you to make a fully informed decision.
- Confirm Details
Double-check date, time, and interview link/address. - Test Your Technology
Ensure stable internet, working webcam/microphone, and necessary software. - Choose a Quiet Space
Find a well-lit, quiet area free from distractions. - Appearance
Even if you’re interviewing from home, remember to present yourself as though you are meeting in person. Smart casual is our usual dress code.
- Understand Our Purpose and Values
Familiarize yourself with EcoVadis’ purpose, vision and mission. Take some time to review our core values. - Explore Our Solutions
Learn about our different enterprise solutions and sustainability assessments. A basic understanding of how we help businesses will enable a more productive discussion. - Review Our Impact
Look into our annual reports, case studies, social media and news releases to understand our global reach and the impact we’re making. - Connect to Your Role
Think about how your skills and experience align with EcoVadis’ mission and the specific role you’ve applied for.
- Key Responsibilities
Break down each responsibility listed in the job description. - Required Skills
Note all the technical, soft, and industry-specific skills mentioned. - Prepare Examples
For each key responsibility and skill, think of specific examples from your past experience where you demonstrated them. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to structure your answers.
- Questions types
- Behavioral: These assess how you’ve handled past situations by connecting impactful experiences to role competencies.
- Situational: These assess how you would react to hypothetical scenarios such as team disagreements, customer feedback or project risks.
- Technical: These are often role-specific and assess particular knowledge or skills such as coding, data analysis or sales strategy.
- “Why EcoVadis?” and “Why this role?”
Be ready to articulate your genuine interest in EcoVadis’ purpose and how this specific role aligns with your career aspirations.
- Demonstrate Engagement
Asking insightful questions shows your genuine interest and helps you assess if EcoVadis is the right fit for you. Examples include questions about team challenges, growth support, team culture, daily responsibilities, and how the role contributes to EcoVadis’ mission. - Expectations
We encourage you to share your expectations with us as you compare EcoVadis to other opportunities. This will help us clarify our approach and work towards meeting your needs, enabling you to make a fully informed decision.
- Confirm Details
Double-check date, time, and interview link/address. - Test Your Technology
Ensure stable internet, working webcam/microphone, and necessary software. - Choose a Quiet Space
Find a well-lit, quiet area free from distractions. - Appearance
Even if you’re interviewing from home, remember to present yourself as though you are meeting in person. Smart casual is our usual dress code.
Leveraging AI for Your Interview
At EcoVadis, AI tools are integrated into our daily work, always complementing, never replacing, human judgment and critical thinking. We believe it’s perfectly acceptable to use AI as a supportive tool during the recruitment process and set out below a number of scenarios where it is and isn’t encouraged.
Scenario
Guidance
Using AI to better explain your experience in your covering letter or resume
Encouraged
Using AI to fabricate experiences in your resume or to generate a covering letter
Please don’t
Leveraging AI for interview preparation and research
Encouraged
Using AI to provide answers during interviews
Please don’t
Using AI to create presentations and misrepresenting your personality
Please don’t
Enhance your presentations with AI while preserving your unique creativity and personal touch
Encouraged
Ethical Use: AI literacy is a key skill that we are looking for and we’re happy for you to share your experience with us during the recruitment process. Be transparent if you use AI to assist your preparation but please don’t use AI to generate answers during an interview.
Learn More About Us
Frequently Asked Questions
The interview process typically involves 3-4 rounds, including an initial screening, one or two rounds with hiring managers or team members, and potentially a final round with a senior leader. Some roles may also include a technical assessment or a case study. We will inform you of the specific stages for your role.
Interviews usually combine behavioral questions, situational questions, and discussions about your experience and skills relevant to the role. For technical roles, you may have technical challenges or coding assessments.
Yes, absolutely! Sending a personalized thank-you email within 24 hours of your interview is highly recommended. Reiterate your interest in the role, mention specific points from your conversation, and briefly remind the interviewer of why you’re a strong fit.
If you encounter technical difficulties, try to resolve them quickly. If you can’t, immediately communicate the issue to your interviewer or recruiter. We understand that technical glitches can happen.
Please notify your recruiter as soon as possible if you need to reschedule. We will do our best to accommodate your request. You might also be able to self-reschedule your interview via the self-scheduling email, if this was provided.
We strive to provide timely updates. Your recruiter will give you an estimated timeframe for when you can expect to hear back. If you don’t hear within that period, feel free to follow up with your recruiter.
EcoVadis is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace for all employees. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives on our website.
Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.
Yes. As a final step in our recruitment process we will ask you to provide contact details of professional referees as well as proof of qualifications, when it is an essential for the role or to meet regulatory or legislative requirements. We will inform you if we use a third party provider to conduct a background check in your location.
Our recruitment processes do not include AI systems that make autonomous decisions impacting individuals’ rights without human oversight. Inputs and outputs of the system have been validated by humans and answers are based on algorithms that analyse previous data with which the system has been trained. We use SmartRecruiters as our applicant tracking system and to schedule interviews. Gemini is used to summarize notes from interviews and to refine job descriptions and social media messaging. AssessFirst is used to support talent assessment decisions.
For more information please read our Legal Notice on processing personal data.
We wish you the best of luck with your EcoVadis interview! We look forward to connecting with you and exploring how your unique talents will help us guide all companies toward a sustainable world.