Applied online on Asda's site and was invited to an assessment center about a week and a half later or so. The assessment center is nothing to get nervous about there will be about 20 (well in my case there was) and you split up into groups of 4-5 and play a sort of bingo game. You are all given the bingo sheets with 14 activities on them (have you been on holiday outside the UK etc.) and you have to go round the room and ask everybody who's done what and mark them off, there will be 2 or 3 Asda employees at the back watching everybody to see how you communicate and interact with others. After that we were told to build a capsule for an egg to be dropped from about 2 meters so that the egg didn't break. One of you then has to stand up and demonstrate the product (bonus points for being the one to stand up I would say). The whole process took around an hour maybe less. You are then told to wait up to 3 weeks to hear back (I heard back within the same week). You are then invited to a pretty casual interview, 5 quick easy questions and then gave some information about the work. I was then told I would have to wait up to 2 weeks to hear back but I am guessing I will find out sooner either way
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What did you think about the Asda Magic Assessment center
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at ASDA
Interview
Applied online. Application was long and there were some scenario questions to answer. Recieved a phone call a week later inviting me to an interview. Interview was relaxed. Heard back two days later to say I had got the job
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ASDA (Peterborough, England) in Feb 2017
Interview
Application is through a simple online process where you fill in some basic information. Afterwards, you are required to take an online questionnaire consisting of 44 single and multiple-choice personality and basic situational questions.
I heard back from ASDA around 1 week after applying online saying that my application was successful, during which call I was invited to one of the "Magic Recruitment Events" the same weekend. I wasn't able to do so and had to postpone it until the week afterwards.
The recruitment event that I attended had around 30 people (quite a lot more of us than normal). When we arrived, we were split into tables of 5 with our name tags on the places we are designated to sit.
We were first tasked with playing a "Personality Bingo" where we were given some basic personality traits. You have to go around the entire group of the 30 people and make conversation with them, asking them about what's on the card. If we got one person per trait, you win the game.
After that, your table is given a large stack of straws and is tasked with building a house from them (no glue or sellotape is provided).
To see how you handle changing situations, everyone is given new rules e.g. you can't include red straws anymore.
After the construction is complete, the group has to pitch the idea to the everyone.
During the building process, the HR team will collect proof of right of work and your proof of National Insurance Number to be photocopied.
That concluded the recruitment session.
I was contacted 2 days after the session at around 12pm to come in for an interview at 4pm the same day. I live close by, so it didn't bother me that much.
You are expected to wear smart attire for the interview.
Once I arrived at the store, I asked at the Customer Help Desk about my interview. They were pretty busy on the day my interview was happening, so I had to wait for about 5 minutes for my interviewer to finish his and collect the necessary paperwork.
The interview was a very simple process. The asking question part of the interview took about 15 minutes in total, after which I was taken down to the shop floor to be shown what I could be doing if I did get the job offer.
The interviewer must have seen something (I couldn't tell you what) in me, but after he took me back to the interview room, he simply told me "I would like to give you a job". After which, we made some small talk and had a bit of a joke about the whole interview.
We shook hands (a thing you MUST do when someone gives you a job!) and we went our separate ways.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you think of a situation where you had to take the role of a leader?