How much do people who work at tescos get paid?

OP

AT82

You might not even get the job at Tesco.

Tesco is also minimum wage so the pay would be very little for a 16 year old. You can get promoted but there is a lot of competition for places so Tesco isn't really a career.

Well this guy I know pretty much got all E's and D's in all his exams and he got in so I thought it would be easy.

What do you guys suggest I do? I'm pretty much going to get D's in most of my exams because I left revision too late. Am I screwed?

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I have worked at tescos for 18 months and I applied for checkout work. I was also offered 'aisle 1:cheese and butter replenishment' but that didn't really take my fancy.. thought it'd be cold and not quite the hip thing to do working stacking shelves. the job was great to begin with, easy money sitting on your bum all day, but it gets extremely tedious and boring. you can work on shop floor, deli, the bakery, dot com, customer services, kiosk, photo desk and in bigger stores i;m sure there's much more you can do, but you can also train in more than one area (if they ever get round to training u!)

as far as i know tescos doesn't pay minimum wage because I thought minimum wage was £3 something. At age 16 I started on £4.20, you then get a rise after 6months to around £4.50 and a rise again when you're 18 and when you have been working there for a year. Different departments also pay slightly different I think.

As for getting the job.. depends how much work is going but the interview isn't particularly strict just make yourself sound reliable and outgoing and make out that you have some customer experience and you should be fine. However don;t aim for tescos as a long term career prospect.. you will get extremely bored! hope this has helped in some way x

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just to add to my above post i said stacking shelves didn't sound like the 'hip' thing, but i would now choose it any day over checkouts! much more freedom.

Reply 5

OP

The only thing is I haven't got any grades yet, only predicted grades which are all Cs and a couple of Bs, have I got any chance of being accepted?

Reply 6

OP

Miles

Career prospects at Tesco are actually quite good.

I started off at 16, worked on tills - got promoted to customer service desk after a year; then promoted again to customer service supervisor (a few quid an hour extra and had lots of managerial responsibilities). If I hadn't gone to uni I would've been a proper manager at 18. Have just finished a BSc and it's surprising that graduate entry allows people to manage stores within a couple of years!

So did you start off in the summer holidays before you had any results, or afterwards? Also how many days were you working per week?
Thanks

Reply 7

Muse

13

spamking

So did you start off in the summer holidays before you had any results, or afterwards? Also how many days were you working per week?
Thanks

I started in the summer before getting my GCSE results. My contract was 16 hours per week but I used to do lots extra in overtime. As with most places, if you want to get anywhere in life you have to force it yourself - getting promoted is one of them. I trained on the customer service desk in my own time as they wouldn't pay me to train on there during contract hours - soon made friends with senior managers and they realised how keen and competent I was. The career structure is quite well thought out, there's no real minimum GCSE requirement but maybe getting 5 A-Cs is advantageous (who knows lol, i didn't look at grades really when searching through application forms, more so whether they were legible and the answers given for the task-specific questions).

Reply 8

alpesh24

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tesco now have self serve. should they now pay you some money to purchase items as you are basically doing the role of the checkout/cashier staff?

Reply 9

Kubed

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alpesh24

tesco now have self serve. should they now pay you some money to purchase items as you are basically doing the role of the checkout/cashier staff?

That's just...stupid...

Reply 10

Clubber Lang

15

Hi
I been with Tesco part time for about 5 years while at college/uni.

Pay after 1 year and over 18 is currently about 5.80 something - so at 16 I would say its around £4 but goes up after 6/12months plus when you are 17 and 18.

Working on tills gets boring after a while so I would recommend working on the grocery section (tinned foods, drinks, pet food, crisps)

They won't care about your grades as long as you are a nice person - best time to generally get employed is about now as they take on laods of people for the summer rush.

Tesco are growing rapidly so now is probably a good time to join if you want to progress - technology is where they are going for (and are about to open an electrical only store in my city)

In terms of getting promotion they will promote you if you can show you are capable and commited. It also depends on the size of your store - larger ones are morle likely to have slots.

My own store is holding an open evening next week for people who want to get promoted, so the chances do pop up.

The best way to get promoted though is to - LICK ARSE. Just suck up to your current managers and you will find they will be very willing to help you out and give you more repsonsility. It will then make it easier for you to get onto the managers training program when they look for people.

I reckon if you worked hard enough and sucked up you could get promoted on the shopfloor within 6 months. Bear in mind that even the floor managers work long hours and the shifts are really random (i.e one day you will have to do early (7-3 maybe) and other days you will have to do lates 1-10) - so your working week won't be a steady 9 til 5.

Also the job can be high pressured and stressful, plus you do pretty much the same thing everyday - getting the shop full up!

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Clubber Lang

15

Miles

Have just finished a BSc and it's surprising that graduate entry allows people to manage stores within a couple of years!

Someone came to train at our store as a graduate, she did massive hours on the shopfloor over easter as was training as a floor manager, she has moved to another store and is now training as a senior manager.... i imagine that would take a while and will be the bottle neck in her career as she waits to become a store maanger as she will be competing with loads of other people for relativley limited jobs.

I thin jthe good thing about the graduate scheme is that people outside the store ensure you are progressing and your moved are 'forced' where as if you go via the instore route you only really get trained as and when your own managers want you to.

Reply 12

you don;t need exam grades to work at tescos, most ppl apply just after they've sat their GCSEs and so before they have grades

Reply 13

bluenoxid

13

laurah

you don;t need exam grades to work at tescos, most ppl apply just after they've sat their GCSEs and so before they have grades

Tescos requirements will literally read some thing like this

Minimum age - In last year of school, after 30th June of GCSEs

Most of their students come to them at your stage in their lives, so stop peeing around and get an app form in.

BTW Morrisons kicks Tesco rear :p:

And remember its Yesco. "Yes sir, yes madam, three bags packed" :biggrin:

Reply 14

20083

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If you work in Tesco prepare to be treated like something scraped off the bottom of someone's show - and don't complain! (or get your butt to college and actually try and learn something useful).

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20083

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Miles

I remember two chav brats reading my namebadge and saying "oohh you're a tesco supervisor, you must be so proud."

I replied.. "i'm also actually a student doctor. let's see which one of us is more successful in 5 years time"

made my day.

Heh heh, well done!

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OP

Miles

I remember two chav brats reading my namebadge and saying "oohh you're a tesco supervisor, you must be so proud."

I replied.. "i'm also actually a student doctor. let's see which one of us is more successful in 5 years time"

made my day.

The look on their faces must have been priceless :biggrin:

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