Nestlé Online Assessment: Strengths Test Guide

How Nestlé recruits early careers

Nestlé runs one process for graduates, placement students and apprentices in the UK and Ireland, set out on its application process page. You can apply for one programme per recruitment cycle, so pick the scheme before you start.

What the online tests ask you to do

Nestlé describes the online tests as an interactive and immersive stage that brings the company to life through real-life scenarios to read, watch and listen to. The aim is to understand your strengths and how well you suit the role. Expect a mix of answer types rather than one long questionnaire.

Nestlé links a preparation hub that explains its strengths approach and has practice questions. The hub runs on Cappfinity’s platform, and Cappfinity builds strengths-based scenario assessments of this kind. Do the hub’s practice questions first: they are the official rehearsal.

How to prepare

Know your strengths before the scenarios ask

Strengths-based tests look for what you do well and what energises you, not only what you have done. Think through a few real examples of each, from study, work or anything else, because the written, video and interview questions will draw on them. Nestlé’s own FAQ asks candidates to bring a range of examples.

Answer as yourself, consistently

Ranking and rating questions compare your choices across many scenarios. Picking the answer you think Nestlé wants in one place and your real preference in another makes the profile look inconsistent. Read each scenario fully, including any video or audio, before you choose.

Use the five days

Each testing stage stays open for five days. Do it in one quiet sitting when you are fresh, with sound on for the video and audio parts, rather than squeezing it into a gap.

Research the brands

Nestlé suggests researching its brands and following its social channels to understand its goals and culture. That pays off in the written and video answers and again at the assessment centre.

Practise the formats

These are Cappfinity’s standard strengths formats, not Nestlé’s own scenarios. Use them once you have done the official hub, to get quicker and more consistent with ranked and rated answers.

Read more on the situational strengths test and the strengths profile, or see the full Cappfinity practice hub. For the video and interview parts, our strengths-based interview guide and video interview guide help.

The graduate schemes

Nestlé’s graduate page lists eight two-year schemes starting on £32,000: Technical Leadership, Engineering (electrical, automation or digitalisation), Safety, Health and Environment, and HR at UK factory sites; Research and Development Digital and Automation Engineering in York; Sales in York and Crawley; Supply Chain at UK sites; and Marketing in Crawley. Some schemes need you to relocate between Nestlé sites, with relocation support if you live more than an hour or 40 miles away. Apprenticeships run in areas such as technical operations, engineering, IT and digital, sales and supply chain, and placements in manufacturing, product development, logistics and engineering.

Common questions

Does Nestlé use Cappfinity?

Nestlé does not name a supplier. Its preparation hub runs on Cappfinity’s platform and the question formats match Cappfinity’s strengths-based assessments, so that is the format to expect. Your invitation is the final word.

How long do I have for the Nestlé online tests?

Five days for each online testing stage. Nestlé does not publish a time limit for the questions themselves.

Can I apply for more than one Nestlé scheme?

No. Nestlé accepts one application per recruitment cycle.

Is there an age limit?

You must be 18 or over at the start date of the scheme, and there is no limit on how long ago you left education.