I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tesco in Sep 2017
Interview
Starting salary 18,000 per annum. Interview is one to one with the store manager, there was a work based ‘twist’ whereby if the interview was successful you are invited to do a shift to get a feel and also to see where you are in your training.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Scenario based questions of where you have shown good core skills. There was then the ‘what could you bring to the role?’ Type questions.. all based around empathy, resilience, innovation, and other core skills.
I applied online. I interviewed at Tesco (Crewe, England) in Apr 2017
Interview
I saw the job listed on an agency website, but was redirected to the Tesco Careers site. I had had to make a profile and fill out a load of information, literally everything that would be on your CV.
You have to upload your birth certificate and national insurance card to prove your allowed to work in the UK, this took quite a while to get approved.
I was interviewing for two jobs at the same time, it was the same position but for at two different stores.
The interview was with a manager from each store.
I was fairly confident as I had worked for Tesco previously and had worked at both stores before.
I went to the store on time and was met by one of the managers who gave me a form to fill out in the staff room across from someone eating their lunch, real awkward!
The form was basically just standard stuff about me, details, name address so on, then another form asking if you have any skin conditions and such.
I was then taken in to another room with both managers and the first question I was asked was the most rhetorical and pretentious question I had ever been asked in an interview and possibly in life! "Who is....(insert name here)" through me off instantly, I even had to ask "excuse me" and "what do you mean" to which I was told "who are you?, what makes you tick?" I was still confused but assumed he meant "tell me a little about yourself" so I did.
Then asked loads of questions about my businesses which wouldn't have been massively irrelevant to the role and how I deal with things, then asked quite in depth questions about my illness that I had listed because he didn't know what it was.
They we're friendly enough but a horrible interview. Got a rejection email before I had even got home.
As an actual customer in both stores, everyone who works their is right miserable and someone incompetent so I don't know what they are looking for in their employees but it wasn't me.
I applied online. I interviewed at Tesco (Londres, Inglaterra) in Mar 2017
Interview
A standard interview really, started off speaking about me and my experience, then moved on to situational questions. The person interviewing me was my potential manager, rather than HR etc, so I think it was more a case of him figuring out if we would get along. I think this was a good approach, as I know that some other people were interviewed by managers that they would not be working for in the future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you gave excellent customer service