I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Primark (Wolverhampton, England) in Aug 2016
Interview
Applied online on the Monday and received a phone call offering me an interview by the Friday. Interview was scheduled for the following Tuesday but had to rearrange for the next day due to family matters, Primark were very understanding and interviewed me on the Wednesday despite saying they were just interviewing Monday & Tuesday. Went to customer services and was taken downstairs where I was asked to wait in the canteen until the manager was ready to see me. We went through into his office where the interview took place (lasted about 20 minutes). Was told that I'd hear back by Monday latest and if I was successful I'd have to attend an induction day on the weekend and then start work the weekend after.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
What's most important to you; customer query, stock floor, replenishment?
The interview was straightforward, with a few basic questions about holiday availability, teamwork, previous experience, and examples of when I demonstrated key skills and qualities such as communication, reliability, and customer service.
simple, asked questions about day to day scenarios that could occur at the shop and what you would do in those situations then asked about availability, said they are always happy to give people their first job
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what you'd say to someone who wanted to try something on but fitting room line was long
good experience, asked standard questions such as in STAR format eg teamwork, resilience, etc and was fairly short, around 25 minutes, did not get the offer unfortunately but may be due to my availability
Retail Assistant applicants have rated the interview process at Primark with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 71% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Retail Assistant roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 34 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Primark overall takes an average of 16 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Primark as a Retail Assistant according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 14%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 11%
Personality test: 9%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
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