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 73.4% 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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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Primark (London, England) in Feb 2015
Interview
I applied online, and after filling out all the sections and the questionnaire I received an email about 2 weeks later offering an interview (usually i get an email saying for every position i apply that i am unsuccessful but this one for some reason it went in :S?!). as it seemed on the phone she wanted more candidates. I went for one to one interview with a manager (but i waited in the canteen for like more than 15 minutes :o because i was the last person. and i knew iwas last because i said on the phone that i cant come for interview at 11am and she offered me at 3:30 which i accepted. so i had 2 interviews within same day thats why) and I talked about general questions.
and by the way. the room was like HELL omfg they turned the heater way upp which made me sweat when i was answering the question :O but i did try my best.
The interview lasted around 15-20 minutes and after that I just left.
the question i was asked that was on the paper i think (because she was reading it from a paper and writing my answer on the box provided)
1-Why primark?
2-What are the main Primarks Competitors?
3-What would you think of Primark as a customer?
4-Tell me about a difficult situation and how you asked others for help?
etc
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Did you do any presentations at either school or college?
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
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