The hiring process at Tesco takes an average of 1 day when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Christmas Customer Assistant had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Christmas Customer Assistant roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 1 day).
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tesco in Oct 2014
Interview
The interview process started off pretty simply. I applied for the job in an online application. I then received a phone call the next day inviting me in for a group interview the following week. When I arrived at the interview, only 3 other people turned up so it was decided that they were going to do 1:1 interviews instead. Firstly, we had to sign a 'right to work' document and some relevant health questions. When it came to the actual interview, the lady interviewing me was very nice and asked very straight forward questions. The interview itself lasted no longer than 15 minutes. After the interview she told me that I had done very well and she had no doubt that I would be offered the job. Later that night I received a call informing me that my interview had been successful and that I could come in for a work sample the next week. The work sample was very easy and basically involved following around a member of staff whilst they showed you what the job involved. It lasted barely 30 minutes. At the end of the work sample I was told that I would receive a call as soon as the right to work document came back to let me know what my shift times would be, etc. A month passed and I had not heard back from Tesco so I sent them an email asking when I could expect to hear back. A few weeks passed and my email was ignored completely. I then called on two separate days but on both days customer services could not get hold of the manager. The next day I managed to get hold of the manager and to be quite honest, she was rude on the phone and seemed like she couldn't care less about my job application. She told me she was very busy and couldn't deal with it today but asked for my number and said she would call back the next day. Almost another month has passed and I haven't received any calls from Tesco. I have now given up trying to get hold of them because I feel like I don't want to work for a company that treats me with such a lack of respect. I don't know whether it was just the particular store that I applied for or whether this is a common occurrence across all Tesco stores, however I would not recommend applying for a job here to anybody.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain a situation where you have gone beyond what was expected of you? (not a very difficult question in fact if you have prepared yourself, however all the other questions were even easier than this)
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco
Interview
Had read a lot of previous interview questions on here for similar jobs before. interview was straightforward, asked questions from a booklet and then interviewer wrote down my answers. questions asked were 1) a time you had a complaint from a customer and how you dealt with it. 2) A time you worked in a team 3) A time you worked under pressure 4) a time you changed your behavior from someone else. there were 2 interviewers both seemed chilled out. after interview i was placed at a cashier not on the tills but just by another employee to see how i was around with customers and other employees. will here back from them in a week
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
a time you had a complaint from a customer and how you dealt with it. Was thrown by this question as i didn't prepare for it at all due to not coming across it. my own fault i should have prepared more.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tesco (Londres, Inglaterra) in Dec 2014
Interview
I went to two interviews for two different stores. Both interviews were very informal and laid back.
The first was for the position on a counter. However we were given choices as to where we wanted to work and had to fill in our work availability. Then in a group we were asked three questions and had to go round answering. We were told we would find out the result in a few days time.
The second interview was for personal shopper (dotcom). This time there was only myself and another person in the interview and we were asked to fill out forms and then had to answer two questions, again in the group. Then whilst one of us went off onto the shop floor to see how the shift goes, the other was asked about criminal convictions (if we had any) and some other run of the mill questions. After 10 minutes of being on the floor we were told we would find out the result in a few days.
The questions asked in both interviews were;
- Name a time you had to go above and beyond for a customer
- Think of a time you either gave or received excellent customer service (and talk about it)
- Think of a situation where you had to either adjust or change what you were doing, for somebody else (and talk about it).
- Name a time you were disappointed or suffered a set-back?
The pay in one store was £7.47/hr, for the dotcom shopper it was £7.88/hr.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you were disappointed or suffered a set-back?