The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Target (Lake City, FL) in Feb 2012
Interview
I met with my recruiter through an University Career Fair and learned about the Distribution Operations Intern position. This position is essentially like the Group Leader position but you spend most of the 10 weeks working on a research project to improve Distribution Center efficiency. I expressed interest in the position and I was contacted the next day by her to complete a personality and skills assessment (you can't really prepare for this kind of test, but definitely have a calculator nearby, a tab of Google open, and allot yourself the full amount of time). The next week by HQ Human Resources contacted me to set up and phone interview. This lasted about 45 mins.
Around a week later I informed that I made it to the On-Site Interview, was thoroughly informed of the day-long process. It was out-of-town in their Perishable Food Distribution Center in Lake City, FL but they reimburse you for Gas, Meals and a Hotel depending on the distance and location.
The On-Site Interview lasted around 5 hours. The was a tour of the facility, a presentation by HR, and 3 interviews (2 were 1:1 the other was 1:2) with the exception of the interviews you spend the first part of your day with a group of 3-4 people that may be interviewing for the same position, or others.
The next day I was extended the offer for Internship and I happily accepted.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Target in Dec 2011
Interview
Target recruiters came to campus and spoke to several different classes and asked students to forward their resumes to the campus career services if we were interested in a job or internship. After career services forwarded the resumes to the recruiters the Target recruiters emailed a list of students back to the career services that they wanted to interview. Two weeks went by and the recruiters conducted face to face interviews with the students they called back. After that a phone interview was set up and you were emailed a skills test that took around 2 hours to complete. After the 30-45 minute phone interview the recruiters took 2 weeks and an offer was made. The recruiters gave 2 weeks to accept or decline the position. After the offer they gave you 24 hours to take a drug test. Overall everyone was very friendly and the experience was very positive.
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Question 1
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