Thinking of Applying To Marks & Spencer

Truegho

I am contemplating applying to Marks & Spencer for a Customer Assistant. However, I am unsure what their recruitment process is like. I mean, I know you have to ring a number (obtained from their website) and spend 20 mins answering questions. But what I want to know is it fairly easy to get into the company, or is the telephone interview just the start of a long recruitment process (e.g. necessity to attend open days etc.?).

I do have some limite retail experience, and did indeed work for Marks before, but many moons ago, so I am sure their recruitment process has changed.

So if anybody has been through their recruitment process, please let me know, as I am very keen for a career in retail.

Thanks

Nicolefury

If you do the telephone screening and are successful, you get invited to come to an interview which is actually a roleplay. Once you pass the roleplay and providing there is a job available, you get offered a role, have to undertake 2 days off the floor training and one day on the floor training.

When I joined 2 1/2 years ago, from initial questions to starting it was around 2 weeks. The role play has changed massively since I started though and is meant to be harder than what I had to do (recommend products from cards to an imaginery customer)

Googlewhacker

Whatever you do don't come here moaning if they don't reply to you.

santacruz_2

If you pass the online screening then they offer you an interview and you chose a time for that online after doing the
questionnaire. There are usually 2 people interviewing and you have to do a role play which I find really stupid..but I
passed them. And they ask you a few questions, its easy really, sounds harder than it is. They offered me a job there and then both times
I went for an interview (xmas temp jobs)