HMRC Tax Specialist Programme (TSP) 2018

Just tried to do it; but the there was no sound recording! Can’t get it to work. Will try on my husbands mac when the kids are on in bed. As if I haven’t got enough to do the week before Christmas.

No luck on the Mac. Going to do it on my phone tomorrow. Cutting it fine I know! But I’ll have more peace tomorrow. At least I can get a good angle and avoid a double chin.

I was having a similar problem (laptop), but I managed to get it working. Once the countdown begins, right click the area where you can see yourself > settings > then go to the mic settings, one where there's a slider and a red-to-green bar on the left > Just click the slider thingy, wiggle it a little. You should then see that the red-to-green bar has gone down and moves a little with audio. It thens allows for proper audio feedback in the practice question and should for the full answers (although you don't get to see those).

Keep in mind though, that you have to do that little fix EVERY time you re-record, and it only works after you hit record. So I had to do it during the 30 second prep on each question.

I hope this helps

You're all concerning me re the sound - i did mine on a Mac but on practice sound was fine and played back ok - should I have done anything different with the actual recording?

Not holding out much hope on the interview front. That was awful. Didn’t help that the microphone wouldn’t pick up sound on my laptop so then had to mess around doing it on my phone.

This is my first year applying to this. Got through the verbal, numerical and sjt tests with scores of 97%, 94% and 73% respectively.

Just sat the video interview. Been suffering from a flu the past week so it wasn't an ideal time to do it. Think I made a mess of it overall. 3 out of the 4 questions were okay but the remaining one was awful. I couldn't think of an example. As soon as it started recording, I just stared blankly into the webcam for the first 30 seconds of that question. Finally managed to get words out but it just ended up being a nonsense made up scenario that I waffled on for for about a minute. Nightmare.

Honestly I think they should give you more than 30 seconds to prepare an answer. And more than one attempt per answer too. I mean, anything could happen when you're recording. I had to stifle back a coughing fit on account of my cold/flu during one of the answers.

Just want to confirm we have till tomorrow midnight?

that was horrendous. I'm out

Hi, Can anyone please tell me when they read out the questions/situations do you have to answer straight away or can you pause then answer?