Every career is unique
On average, people are living longer, more varied lives than ever before – and we believe in a career that supports you through yours.
These days, there's no longer a standard path through life. Today, there are as many options as opportunities – and we’re excited about what this means for you and our customers.
Choose Aegon
We want to help you live your best life at work too.. Find out what roles we have available, understand our three Aegon behaviours and check out our hints and tips to support you through the application process.
Hints and tips pre-interview
We want you to be your best when you meet us for an interview. It's a conversation where we aim to learn more about you, and we recognise that you'll also want to learn more about us. This way, we can explore our joint goals and see where we align.
Here are some hints and tips for the interview, some FAQs, and some sample questions that are typical of the type of questions you’ll be asked.
So, to help you begin:
- Carry out research on Aegon in the UK
- Understand our ‘best life behaviours’ which we need to demonstrate as part of our roles. They're fundamental to our organisational culture, the way we work and to our future success. Our three behaviours are:
- We tune in
- We step up
- We’re a force for good
- Prepare some questions to ask your interviewers. These can be about the role and/or about Aegon. We'd recomend writing these down pre-interview.
- Be ready to discuss your CV in detail, we’ll want to understand more about your experience.
- If your interview is in one of our offices – plan your journey. Make sure you know the interview location and how to get there on time, considering any potential travel delays.
- If your interview is virtual – find somewhere quiet where you won’t be interrupted. It's always safest to check your technology works in advance of the interview.
FAQs
Your application will be reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team, we’ll be in touch with you by phone or email to update you on the status of your application.
Dress appropriately, we operate a smart casual dress code which allows our colleagues to dress professional while still being comfortable and not overly formal.
Please reach out to your contact from the Talent Acquisition team who will be able to discuss and support you with your request.
We have free visitor parking available at our Edinburgh, Witham and Peterborough offices. There are no parking facilities available at our London Leadenhall office.
Please reach out to your contact from the Talent Acquisition team.
You can withdraw your application via the candidate portal.
All of our virtual interviews are conducted via Microsoft Teams.
The interview process can vary depending on the level and type of the vacancy we are hiring for. Our standard interview approach is competency based. We’ll let you know in advance if there are any specific assessments being used as part of the interview process.
Interview question examples
We want you to feel comfortable in any interviews and be clear on what we're looking for in an Aegon colleague. In the spirit of 'no surprises' and to help you feel more confident, here are a selection of the type of questions you might be asked. They are grouped around the three behaviours we all work to here at Aegon.
- Tell me about a time when being curious in your role (such as identifying a problem or driving a solution) has led to a successful outcome.
- Give me an example of when you have strived to better understand the needs of those either internally or externally to your organisation, and what the outcome was.
- Tell me about a time when you had difficulty implementing what you thought was a great or even brilliant, project or initiative? How did you identify the stakeholder you would need to connect with around this project or initiative?
- Tell me about a time you feel you were able to exceed the customer’s expectations in some way?
- Tell me how you strive to consistently achieve in your current or previous roles?
- Give me an example of how you have collaborated with colleagues. What role did you play? What role did your colleagues play? What was the outcome?
- Tell me about a time when you came across a problem or obstacle. How did you address it? What was the outcome?
- Give me an example of a difficult piece of work or project that you have worked on. How did you ensure you saw it through to completion? What was the outcome?
- Give me an example that demonstrates your focus on continuous improvement. What was the situation? What was the outcome?
- Tell me about a time when you've needed to ensure a focus on society and/or the environment when carrying out your job or a task. How did you go about it? What was the outcome?
- Tell me about a time when you haven’t necessarily agreed with a course of action, and how you dealt with that.
- Give me an example of how you’ve actively sought out help and/or expertise to progress your development and/or something you were working on.
Equal opportunities
We welcome applications from everyone – regardless of age, gender, disability, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Menopause friendly accredited
We've demonstrated to an independent panel of experts that we actively support menopause at work across five accreditation pillars. Find out more about our accreditation.
Level 1 Disability Confident
Helping people live their best lives includes doing what we can to set up our candidates and colleagues for success. We welcome applications from individuals with disabilities, including those who are neurodivergent or have mental health conditions.
By making a commitment to this scheme, candidates and colleagues can be confident that we put reasonable adjustments in place where they’re needed and offer ‘Disability Confident’ eligible candidates an interview when they meet the essential requirements for the role (note: some exceptions may apply in high volume recruitment circumstances).
