I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Primark (Freehold, NJ) in Jun 2016
Interview
Submitted an online application. It took almost a month for them to reply and give me a phone interview. The person on the phone interview was nice but messed up the position and location I applied for when she sent the confirmation email. I had to call them back to correct everything, but other than that, the phone interview was easy. My face to face interview came about two weeks later. The interviewer was not at all experienced. He kept asking me what certain words meant in my answers (and also asked me to spell them) and displayed a slightly negative attitude towards me. The questions I was given were all "what would you do in this scenario" question. In fact, I dont recall the interviewer asking me any questions about myself than what my name is. The face to face interview was a disaster for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are ready to leave for the day but there is one more customer rushing to checkout. What would you do?
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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