I applied online. I interviewed at Primark (Bristol, England) in Sep 2022
Interview
Had a group interview with them that had group exercises and had a small role play element in the interview as well. There were 8 us. They asked us to make a pair and tell a the other a weird fact about each other and repeat the fact to see if we would remember it. The also had a zombie apocalypse scenario question. Then they asked us to organise some clothes and had us explain about why we had done it that way. Then they pretended to be a customer asking about one thing (for me it was about a refund but they didn’t have the receipt with them) and how we would react to said customer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
List ten things that would help you survive a zombie apocalypse in Primark?
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
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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