Ridiculous tests on Sainsbury's recruitment site

SunReader

You do not use common sense. You follow company policy. The correct thing to do is call for management who is authorised to handle refunds.

Who should then apply SOGA.

mattcanary

SunReader wrote: »

You do not use common sense. You follow company policy. The correct thing to do is call for management who is authorised to handle refunds.

Who should then apply SOGA.

It would depend on whether management have to authorise refunds or not.


Unless you work for Sainsburys you can only guess whether that is the case or not (albeit no would be a good educated guess).

SunReader

SOGA clearly has primacy over Sainsbury's policy. Purposely disobeying the law would surely make the employee a criminal?

Not what potential employers want to hear, but so what -everyone breaks the law all the time who cares?

LittleMissMuffet

Yesterday evening my OH applied for a 12 hour a week job as a general assistant at Sainsburys. At 02:10 today he got an email saying he "did not meet the required benchmark at the initial screening stage for this role". I guess it's an automated reply, or they have people marking tests all day and night!

He filled in all the tests in a very sensible way, and they say there are no right or wrong answers anyway. I'm very worried that, although they obviously didn't say it, he was rejected on the grounds of age. You have to tick a box giving your age group, and unfortunately he just gets into the 46-55 age group. He goes to the gym every day and is fitter than the majority of people!

It does say to apply again if another vacancy becomes available. Has anyone found any way around this issue of age, as I didn't think employers were allowed to ask it at all!

darrenmark

I feel like committing suicide its getting to much for me now, turned down for yet another interview this one was Sainsbury's. telephone interview. Its getting to much now I have worked all my life and for the last 2 and a half years I can't get a job maybe it because I don't have a driving licence but this wasn't a problem before. Now I work for restore for nothing I work like a pig I have to wear a hi vis jacket on my back saying community project I feel like a criminal i get constant text's from work agencies for 1 and 2 day jobs and constantly have to pay for DBS check each year. Some times i feel like ending it but i have to think their is people worse off than me in this world, it sad that this is the only thing that stop me from going mad, I'm 44 and dead in hypocrisy Britain.


And what amazes me is Sainsbury's have got job placements adds all around the jobcentre for free labour but they ask you all the hard question in world for a full time job but they don't ask you nothing when you work for free - Britain is turning into a nasty country.

barpy

SunReader wrote: »

SOGA clearly has primacy over Sainsbury's policy. Purposely disobeying the law would surely make the employee a criminal?

Not what potential employers want to hear, but so what -everyone breaks the law all the time who cares?

It's not criminal. Only gives room to civilly sue Sainsbury's which is difficult to prove. Also, Sales of Goods Act only applies to 'faulty' goods. If you changed your mind, got the wrong product etc the store can refuse a refund. Like I said, the employee doesn't 'apply' Sales of Goods Act. The employee has no authority to decide whether a refund can be issued. It's the manager or supervisor who is in position to make this decision who does it.

barpy

LittleMissMuffet wrote: »

Yesterday evening my OH applied for a 12 hour a week job as a general assistant at Sainsburys. At 02:10 today he got an email saying he "did not meet the required benchmark at the initial screening stage for this role". I guess it's an automated reply, or they have people marking tests all day and night!

He filled in all the tests in a very sensible way, and they say there are no right or wrong answers anyway. I'm very worried that, although they obviously didn't say it, he was rejected on the grounds of age. You have to tick a box giving your age group, and unfortunately he just gets into the 46-55 age group. He goes to the gym every day and is fitter than the majority of people!

It does say to apply again if another vacancy becomes available. Has anyone found any way around this issue of age, as I didn't think employers were allowed to ask it at all!

Maybe he simply failed the scenario tests. At my local Sainsbury's store I have seen several employees who look like they're in their 50s. Employers can ask applicants' age. It's legal.

BunnieJ

When I went to uni, ended up moving into a house opposite a store and decided to apply for for a "customer service assitant" role (information desk/checkouts). I'd done the same job on weekends throughout college and I managed to get an interview. As it was during the holidays I was staying at my parent's when I got invited to interview. I paid £70 for a train ticket to get there and spent a day sitting in a room with other candidates doing maths tests etc. before I even got interviewed (never had to do this before, just had a face to face interview at the job cemtre). When I finally met the manager he just took one look at me (young, well dressed/made up/heels) and said "you do know this a job for a trolley boy?" Let's just say I wasn't too pleased with them after that! :mad: and I didn't get the job! What I can't believe is why they made me sit and do tests all day for pushing trolleys? :rotfl:

Don't even get me started on Boots recruitment website! If anyone else had tried to apply, it's the most awful process! Every year I would apply for any vacancy going in my local stores but I always failed their "suitability test". I've worked in retail previously and my mum even worked at Boots when I was a baby. I gave up in the end. Once you fail their test they won't let you reapply for a year!

Interestingly, when I was unemployed I mentioned this to my advisor (after failing again) and he told me they had so many applications that there was a waiting list for our local store, so they probably had already filled the position and that I would never get anywhere by using their website! So maddening!!!!

the_donchichio

I currently work for Sainsburys and have conducted interviews in the past along with the tests...the answers given by candidates was,at the time entered into an adapted excel file that ' computes' the score of the candidate depending on your answers. It's not perfect but it does to a certain extent eliminate bias, although the verbal side of the interview does allow the sainsburys colleague to assess the candidate.

btw, the colleagues I recommended turned out to be not suitable and subsequently left the company

LucyHigginson111

I was asked once if I was gay, catholic, and how I would solve the national rail dispute. This all in a live interview.