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Reply 1
At least wait for them to tell you that you're going to get an interview before asking...
Reply 2
The standard things. Why do you want to work for Satansbusy?

And you get this test, and the marks are as follows

0 - Security
1 - Sainsbury employee
>1 - Too smart

Its a 25 question paper with 1 mark for putting your name correctly
Reply 3
Noxid

And you get this test, and the marks are as follows

0 - Security
1 - Sainsbury employee
>1 - Too smart


thanks Noxid, but i don't understand what you meant by that...:redface:
Reply 4
i've said what you have to do on here before.

you have to decide from a range of meals what different people would like
then you talk to the interviewer on your own for a couple of mins and explain your choices

then as its meant to be a group interview, you discuss your decisions with the group. It's piss easy.
Reply 5
Noxid
The standard things. Why do you want to work for Satansbusy?

And you get this test, and the marks are as follows

0 - Security
1 - Sainsbury employee
>1 - Too smart

Its a 25 question paper with 1 mark for putting your name correctly


Sorry its a joke. You dont get a test at all, it was just a mickey take about how bad supermarket employees can be (BTW I work for Morrisons)

But the joke is as follows

Get 0 you go on to security
Get 1 you can become a sainsburys employee and greater than 1, you are too smart for the job
Reply 6
When I had my sainsburys interview it just seemed like an informal chat with one of the managers. She was really lovely and they got back to me really quickly to tell me I'd got the job. Although this was 4 years ago...
No offence, but it's very hard to get a job, even part-time! You may apply, but sometimes you never hear.

I sent CVs to a local cinema, Pizza Hut and Sainsburys. I've only heard back from Sainsburys, and even they said they didn't have any vacancies and would hang onto my CV for 3 months.

The only reason I've heard from WH Smiths is because they're desperate and they need people straight away. I think with my previous job at Co-Op, I had to phone them up to get things rolling. It's very hard, especially with little experience.
Reply 8
@ sainsburys you just have a simple chat with the manager. Then he/she gives you a list of different cheeses with info abou them and then you do some sorta role play. It is a complete joke and anyone can get through them. You have nothing to worry about.
Reply 9
you're making it sounds easy....
The cheese thing is just...no. I know quite a few people who've worked for sainsburys and their interviews were the same as mine.

On the application form, the multiple choice questions you answer, they ask you about 7 of those. You give the answer then justify it. As long as you justify it with customer service, quality etc in mind it's fine.

They got back to me within a few hours, they seem pretty nice, although you know you're getting screwed over as a newbie when the guys holding two pages of vacancies but swears the only shifts they have are friday and saturday afternoons/nights.
Reply 11
I worked at saibsburys for a few months, f***ing hated it, go elsewhere! Absolutely hated my boss who had something against me because i didn't want to work every single hour going, and she didnt seem to like students, the store manager was a 'i-am-the-manager-and-therefore-better-than-you-so-do-what-i-tell-you' kind of bloke, absolutely despised him.

Mind you, i loved the day when i handed my notice in, managed to get my own back.

Oh, and as far as the interview goes, the management of Sainsburys have the intellect of a slug (and are about that interesting as well), so don't expect them to ask you anything more pressing than 'How old do you need to be to buy alcohol'.

Actually, a classic moment was in the daydreaming session (as they all were) of the completely pointless 3 day training thing. The question was something like what do we suggest to a customer if we dont have tomatoes in stock? Offer them tinned tomatoes. I merely pointed out that if we didnt have tomatoes in stock then you cant really offer tomatoes as a replacement, had the training woman confused for ages.

Another thing i hated was the constant security checks there, fair enough they need to stop people stealing, but if they got some decent management and didnt employ so many idiots it wouldnt be a problem would it!

Rant over. So if you do it, it will be a piece of p*ss (I don't know anyone who has been turned down from sainsburys) although i wouldnt :biggrin:
I hated working at Sainsburys, I quit after a few weeks. They treat people like crap because they know loads of people will apply. So if they lose you they won't care as there will be 100 other people after the job.
Reply 13
Which Sainsbury's did you work at?
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teenage-monkey
No offence, but it's very hard to get a job, even part-time! You may apply, but sometimes you never hear.

I sent CVs to a local cinema, Pizza Hut and Sainsburys. I've only heard back from Sainsburys, and even they said they didn't have any vacancies and would hang onto my CV for 3 months.


Well, exactly!

I handed out 30 CVs two weeks ago, all written differently to target different types of shop (eg fashion, beauty, homewares etc) and I've only had one reply so far, despite the fact all these shops:
a. were looking for people
b. said they were interested in my application
c. and said they were interviewing this week.

So I have an interview with Laura Ashley (who tbh are my preferred store anyway) this week, but I haven't heard ANYTHING back from any of the other places yet. Laura Ashley got back to me the next day, so I don't see why these other places are taking their time so...

Fingers crossed for me :p:
Reply 15
When i went for mine i got given a peice of paper with certain situations on it, then got given another peice of paper with multiple choice answers, the answers stuck out soooooo bad it was unbelievable. Anyway, you dont fill it in, they ask you what you think is the answer, just make sure u explain your answer!

Another thing in my sainsburys was at christmas they wer taking staff on, but only grade one, so anyone who got too high on the test or anyone who had put their GCSE's down on the CV and they were good wasnt allowed a job! many of my friends were annoyed at that, luckily i got my job the previous summer!
Reply 16
Lofty
Actually, a classic moment was in the daydreaming session (as they all were) of the completely pointless 3 day training thing. The question was something like what do we suggest to a customer if we dont have tomatoes in stock? Offer them tinned tomatoes. I merely pointed out that if we didnt have tomatoes in stock then you cant really offer tomatoes as a replacement, had the training woman confused for ages.

Sorry that just makes you look like an idiot, because you're arguing with her over what is simply her not saying 'fresh tomatos' instead of just 'tomatos'. Contrary to popular opinion, people who manage in supermarkets are not idiots, whatever you may think of them, and really that will have just made you look a little bit stupid and annoying.
people who manage in supermarkets are not idiots, whatever you may think of them, and really that will have just made you look a little bit stupid and annoying



Well of course you would say that you are 100000% bias aren't you.
Reply 18
No. I do not work for a supermarket anymore, and neither will I be in the future. However, I have seen the pressures that managers work under, and I also know them as people. Yes, you do get a share of those who a) mean well but aren't up to the task and b) do a good job but their attitude towards other sucks. However, the vast majority of managers I have worked with are very nice people, trying to make a living just like everyone else. I resent the fact that people seem to think that the second someone works in retail, they must be stupid.
Reply 19
dont forget quite alot of people who work in retail are young, they are only working in retail as a stopgap to get somewhere else.