I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Primark (Liverpool, England) in Mar 2017
Interview
Arrived ten minutes early as asked. Was escorted by a more then bubbly member of staff to the 5th floor for my interview. Interviewee said hello and kindly introduced herself. First question asked was if i have legal records of proof t work in the UK, to which i had replied "Yes" (My birth certificate and national insurance number) I was then asked to hand all over and patiently wait as she reviews all in her office. When all was done she came and collected me to begin my interview. All was good, calm and overall a pleasant exsperience. Interviewee was well mannered, kind and seemed to be recieving my awnsers to questions asked postively. All smiles and laughs. Remained eye contact, formal body language and smiles with my interviewee throughout. Questions were fair and reasonable for all were retail based. If unsure through never working in retail please do research as it will be needed. my availabilty was later questioned, uniform and job roles explained alongside my pay. Happy with the final results and overall exsperience. I was told i will be told whether or not ive got the job in two weeks, if i am not emailed within two weeks assume i've got the job and im being put through the process. To my suprise i recieved a phone call two hours later to say i had indeed got the job. Looking forward to working in primark soon.
You're helping a customer with an outfit and they want to try the outfit on. The changing room queues are very long and they don't want to wait. What would you do?
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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