I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Marks & Spencer in Sep 2014
Interview
Filled out a basic application, Passed the online assessments, the main one took about 45 minutes to do, it would take people varying amounts of time to do the assessments, it just happened to take me quite a while because I wanted to be sure to do it right. You get a response of an interview time and date if you're successful.
The interview is up to an hour, mine was around 45 minutes. I had to do a role play with an interviewer followed by a one-to-one interview (where they ask you questions) with the line manager.
The role play is designed to assess your abilities in how you would provide customer service. The role play is basically where you play the role of a customer assistant and your interviewer will play the role of customer, You'll be provided with all the information you would need for the role play on laminated cards. The interviewer gave me about five cards with information on and then left the room for five minutes for me to read through all the information. The cards had info on about the delivery services, product list (mine was to do with men's button shirts, the kind you'd wear as part of a suit) etc. The interviewer then came back into the room as a customer needing help with something. My customer scenario was a lady looking to get a buttoned shirt as a birthday present for her Dad.
The advice I'd give - as long as you smile and always be helpful towards the customer, you should be fine. Some of the cards have offers and promotions on them, make sure you tell the customer about these! Utilize all the information given to you, go the extra mile for the customer by letting them know all these things.
The interviewer will then give you a feedback sheet where you write about how you did in the role play, they will leave the room and the line manager will come in to do the one-to-one interview that. I don't remember all the questions I was asked, but these were some of them, all together there must have been about 10 questions.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
What do you think the role of customer assistant involves?
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Marks & Spencer in Sep 2014
Interview
Brought up to a tiny room, then given a minute to prepare for a role play. Happened so fast, i mentioned everything on the cards, offered alternative to the desired product, mentioned ordering online and going to other stored. Upsold through 3 for 2 and drinks and dessert. I mentioned everything yet didn't get the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The whole experience was difficult, i didnt even get to the personal questions.
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Marks & Spencer (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Jul 2014
Interview
I had applied online in July and had to do an online questionnaire which then determined if you would go on to an interview or not. I passed this in the same day and booked my interview for 2 days after, it was an interview for an hour and I had to do a role play with the interviewer while the other wrote, I was given information on a fictional store and had to sell to and help out a customer, it was a bit hard but i got through it all though I kept on repeating my self (My downfall) after that the interviewers left the room and then another interviewer probably a manger cam in and then asked me some question, why do you want to work for M&S etc. it went really well and she was very surprised by my answers, they then left the room again and I was in there for a good 10 minutes, they later came in and said I wasn't successful. I was just annoyed that I spent an hour of my life in a really hot room and didn't end up getting the job
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