I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ALDI (Stourbridge, England) in Jul 2017
Interview
I applied for the position of store assistant and the first was a series of online questions, some basic maths and situational questions, all of which were multi choice.
Within a few days I received an email inviting me to an individual assessment. This consisted of an interview with the area manager during which I was given another 10 multi choice questions with 5 minutes to complete them. Just basic maths stuff again and being able to pick out correct barcodes and products.
For a job interview it was fairly relaxed. I initially had to go through my life history and then I was asked why I wanted to work at Aldi, and what qualities and abilities I could apply to the role. There was also one scenario based question about a customer dropping some eggs on the floor and what you would do.
Later that day I received an email inviting me to a store experience day. Mine was a week later and consisted of 2 hours in my local store where I spoke to the manager, assistant manager, and worked with some of the staff doing various roles to see if it still appealed.
Although I was told it may take a few days to hear if I was successful, I received an email with a job offer within hours.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
After going through my life history I was asked why I wanted to work at Aldi and what skills and abilities I could bring to the role as I had no previous retail experience. Other than that it was a general chat and explanation of the role.
Applied online and a month later was emailed to come in for a 20 minute assesment.
The area manager asked me to tell her about my self (hobbies & what I am doing at the moment), what I know about the company, why I want to work for Aldi, how will I get there (bus,car etc).Also she asked would the contract hours be acceptable, am I flexible and can I do weekends as well. Lastly she asked me 2 situational questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A customer is paying for a ham and says she has been overcharged for it. You realise there are two sections for the hams; discounted and the non discounted hams and she has picked up the latter assuming it was on offer. How would you handle this situation?