For the first day we all met up and were shown a slideshow about the company and it's values. Afterwards we were lead to the main area with lots of seating with different interviewers - I was interviewed by a lovely, polite lady who took time to listen to me speak about my work experience and other information. About a day or two later I had an email explaining that I had been accepted with information on the next meeting. Our next meeting consisted of meeting one another and doing some ice breaker activities where I met one of my main supervisors and managers and others who would be working with me. During this day we also had to write down information in our staff handbooks that we were given and do a few activities based on real situations with customers, such as serving, complaints, etc. - this went okay but I feel like there should have been more time given to learn about different situations as some of us were confused and felt slightly judged by our activity outcomes that day.
Overall I felt the actual interviewing process went well but I felt the activities day fell flat with me, but mainly because I'm not an extremely sociable person with new people.
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
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
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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