Online form, followed by online aptitude tests - all fairly standard. There was then an Assessment Centre. I was shocked and very disappointed that Toyota decided to hold these in person in Derby, especially as mine occurred during the second UK Lockdown and I had been so enthusiastic about the role and company previously. There was no acknowledgement of the personal risk that applicants had to take in attending the Assessment Centres, and the opportunity of a virtual centre was not offered to me. It just screamed an alarming lack of care about employee health and welfare, especially as the Assessment Centre only lasted a couple of hours and could have been easily done online! The Assessment Centre itself was disappointing, although at least care was taken in terms of Covid-19 to provide distanced spaces and masks. After a lacklustre introduction (the HR recruiter managed to put me off the HR job itself within 30 minutes by just being so clearly uninterested in being there!) which couldn't be heard as the recruiter spoke so quietly, there were 3 key tasks for the Centre which applicants rotated in groups between: a mini one-to-one interview, a group task, and a re-take of the aptitude tests. The one-to-one interview was well-handled, although ran through a series of set questions that prevented any real conversation or discussion and was for the most part a tick-box exercise of previously provided information. The group task was pointless, with little instruction or direction from the HR leader and on a topic completely irrelevant from the job - it was a scenario all about operations and production lines that was heavily maths-focussed, rather than relating to HR in any way at all! The aptitude test was again a tick-box exercise... All seemed incredibly pointless to be held in person. Toyota do at least (in theory) refund travel expenses, but have fun trying to actually get them to do this. I was left really disappointed by the company and overall experience. I would advise the Toyota HR team to have enthusiastic and friendly HR leaders running their Graduate recruitment processes, and for the company to consider the ethics of requiring people to travel hundreds of miles for a lacklustre 2 hour tick-box exercise in the middle of a national lockdown. I expected so much better from such a large firm, and I accepted a different role rather than pursue this opportunity.