The Working At Asda Thread

Hey,

I have a group interview which I pretty much know nothing about at 3pm.

What can I expect in the interview?

Thanks.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1466604

GRoup interviews are called asda magic.

More info in that post...

Hey, thanks!

Sounds pretty cool, what do you suggest as dress wear? Black trousers and a jumper?

No no, formal casual will do, no need for a suit or anything like that. Dress like your going for a nice night out

i got a magic interview thing offered to me yesterday evening... didn't check my e-mails until today, and i've missed it! i've to phone them back at 8 o'clock to work something out, what are the chances of getting it rescheduled or have I missed out?

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Hey all!

I had my group interview today and I had a phonecall saying i've passed that stage and have a one-to-one interview tomorrow.

Please can tell me what sort of questions they are likely to ask and what things they want to hear for me to get the job.

Thank you for any advice you can give me from questions to clothes to anything!

I wore black trousers and a jumper today, what shall I wear tomorrow? I need to take my passport so I shall do so. Anything else?

Well done! ! !

Tbh, at my interview, the guy asked me about 3 questions about myself and then started discussing what hours i would want and that "a boy like you would be good on the chilled department"...

I got the impression that once you're through the asda magic then you're basically in...

And during the magic i said i already had a booked holiday for 8 weeks later so went spent about 10 minutes talking about that.( I was going to work as a mechanic at a bike race where Micheal Schumacher was racing,(the one where he crashed and hurt his neck))


Just go in wearing the same type thing as today and a positive attitude, the hard part should be over...

Thank you!

What questions about yourself did they ask, if you don't mind me asking? And that's all pretty amazing, no wonder they wanted to know more.

Can you start on X number of hours and then say later in the year, you become more and more free, pick up hours? E.g. say you start on 16, 4 hour shifts, 4 times a week, and then later (from February), change those to 8 hours, once i'm more free?

I performed pretty well at the group interview; was confident, always communicating, listening, volunteered and put myself to present, took a natural lead in the products we had to advertise and I think they really liked me!

Also, are you sure I should wear the exact same thing? Yes, it was very smart, but what if they think he's poor and can't afford new clothes?

What questions about yourself did they ask, if you don't mind me asking? And that's all pretty amazing, no wonder they wanted to know more.

Can you start on X number of hours and then say later in the year, you become more and more free, pick up hours? E.g. say you start on 16, 4 hour shifts, 4 times a week, and then later (from February), change those to 8 hours, once i'm more free?

I performed pretty well at the group interview; was confident, always communicating, listening, volunteered and put myself to present, took a natural lead in the products we had to advertise and I think they really liked me!

Also, are you sure I should wear the exact same thing? Yes, it was very smart, but what if they think he's poor and can't afford new clothes?

I would assume you have missed out, you have effectively wasted their time, and there's a good chance they have already found anyone they need.

TBH MHorman summed it up, just general questions to find out a little about you. The manager who interviewed me asked about what was the most recent thing I'd done to improve myself and was amused when I said I had no idea what use it would ever be



Depends on the position you applied for. My current role is 2x 8hr shifts per week, but last week i worked 5x 9hr shifts.... As long as you're willing to take the hours (and the store has avaiable hours) theres nothing to stop you taking as many as you want (European Working Time directive no withstanding)



As long as you're not a mong most people will pass the Magic day



Wear whatever you like, the chances of seeing the same person at the one-to-one are slim as you'll be interviewed either by a duty manager or a section leader rather than the general HR types who run the Magic sessions. For both of my interviews I went in shirt, tie and trousers, then took the tie off whilst I was doing my 30 minutes trial

Thank you.

Hopefully i'll pass this one-to-one interview!

Can you tell me what the day consists of? Is there a tour? A training session? Or just an interview?

Depends on each individual store, there will definately be an "interview the person next to you" and group of 4-5 task, some stores will end it there and assess people once they've gone, some will do a store tour. There wont be any training on the Magic session though as theres no point training someone they might not take on.

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Thanks, but I had already done that bit.

Had my one-to-one interview today, went quite well right until the end (get to that in a min) but I PASSED!

My application cycle was something like:

Saturday - Apply online
Tuesday - Group interview
Wednesday - individual interview
Coming saturday - some welcome day?

My first job, ever, and the whole process, from applying to double interview to welcome day in a week...

Right, the one-to-one interview itself was just standard routine questions. I answered every single question really well, linked them to past experiences but then the final question, which I was expecting to be my weak point, made the person think twice. I'm 18 years old, have 11 GCSE's, 6 A-levels but... NO retail experience! So whilst he was smiling all the way through my interview, after the last question he asked "Any questions?" I asked one, and then he said... "If you are successful...blah blah." I knew exactly why he said that, I was the youngest applicant, some people had grey hair! And yeah... I had no experience at all.

So, now is some Welcome day or something on Saturday, it's casual dress, so jeans and a t-shirt, and it's just guna be ASDA policies and health and safety videos as far as im aware, anything else? I'm a Christmas temp atm, so i'll have to leave in January if no vacancies are there or the seasonal people come back, do they usually? I want to keep the job until September, when i'll be heading off to university in a different city. What's the chances of me keeping it?

Thanks for all the help guys, I love you!

I have the induction day next Tuesday, I have been told to expect lots of health and safety stuff.

I'll be working in checkouts, does anyone know how they specifically train you for that and for how long? Will I have to do other stuff aswell?