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looby75

thats fantastic news! SOOOOOO pleased for you, and the free travel is brilliant too!

Miss_Scrooge_2

kymbogs wrote: »

I'm feeling pretty cross.

I just had a phonecall with my feedback that I requested from the ASDA interview and it's absolute rubbish.

Elaborate? What did they say?

I attended an Asda group interview years ago. It was a nightmare. I was only 16 and was told I had to bring in a passport for ID. I didn't have one, couldn't cough up £70 for one and certainly not in such a short space of time. I let them know the situation before I attended and the lady on the phone said it would be okay if I bought in another form of ID, so I did.

Anyway, there were about 30 people at this interview. We were required to all sit in a circle while the interview was being prepared and someone came round for our ID. My form of ID was not good enough for them and in front of the whole group I was told I had to leave. The way they spoke to me made me feel I was at school again. It was humiliating and degrading.

My grandfather wrote a letter of complaint to them and they apologised and offered a second interview. Needless to say, I didn't bother again.

Drea

Well done asparagus! We all seem to be getting good news recently!

I spoke to the HR person for the company about the credit check and he said it shouldn't affect things too much for my type of job. He asked me to send him an email detailing the circumstances and he would pass that onto the manager. The final decision is down to the manager so fingers crossed everything will be okay.

Spottiswoode

925dancer wrote: »

Got my email back from the Amazon recruitment agency. I will be invited to an assessment which they're starting in mid July. So a bit of a wait but at least I know I've got that coming up if nothing else happens between now and then!

Hi i applied online last week for a job with Amazon, just wondering how long they took to get back in touch?
Thanks

kymbogs

Miss_Scrooge wrote: »

Elaborate? What did they say?

Hi Miss Scrooge,

Firstly he said my individual interview was fine but that during the group activities I hadn't been "as good as other people".

The first thing we did was to ask 3 questions of the person next to us - what is your name, why do you want to work for ASDA and what would you do if you won a million pounds? So I had a very in-depth chat with the lad next to me and found out all sorts which I relayed to the group. The problem? I only gave his FIRST name. Which was all he'd told me. Besides, the task wasn't "find out the full name of..."... So that was strike 1 apparently!

The second task involved us being split into 3 groups and building a castle out of balloons. After 5 minutes or so, the guy leading the task said he'd just remembered that building regulations meant they weren't allowed to use balloons of a certain colour. Realising that 75% of the balloons we'd had in our packet were that colour (but also realising what it was they were trying to achieve by doing this), I said to the group I was in, in a way which was clearly not serious or remotely stroppy, "Oh no! Right, it's OK, we can sort this out."
What I was told this morning was that I "didn't seem impressed" with the change and that in retail things change all the time etc etc....I said I'm well aware that things change in retail all the time, having had a lot of experience in retail, and that my comment had clearly not been taken in the nature in which it was intended, and if somebody had decided that me saying "oh no" in a jokey way and smiling about it meant that I "wasn't impressed" then so be it.

Some might say that saying something in a jokey way in an interview situation isn't right but the task with the balloons had caused much hilarity and there was a lot of laughing and joking going on. When the message was passed on about the building regs it was delivered in a jokey way and so I responded in kind - to the people in my group, not to the guy leading the task.

Clearly they think that I'm going to have a strop everytime I receive a change in instructions! Perhaps tell the manager to go f&ck himself and kick over the stack of baked bean tins.

925dancer

Spottiswoode wrote: »

Hi i applied online last week for a job with Amazon, just wondering how long they took to get back in touch?
Thanks

I think it depends what role you've applied for and who you applied through (direct or agency).

I applied for 4 roles but have only heard back from the agency recruiting for call centre staff. They sent me an email asking for more info the day after I applied and I sent it straight back, that was on Friday. I got my email about the assessment sessions today.

The agency blurb does say they respond to every single applicant with feedback.

I have heard nothing about the roles I applied for directly through Amazon.

Stew68

Congratulations to Greenst and Aspargusnextleft, very good news for a Friday. I hope you find some way to celebrate this weekend.

asparagusnextleft

Stew68 wrote: »

Congratulations to Greenst and Aspargusnextleft, very good news for a Friday. I hope you find some way to celebrate this weekend.

Got a bottle of Cava on ice right now! Funds won't stretch to Champagne but it's a good bottle of Cava! :beer:

I am so excited about going back to work!

EndlessStruggle

I have had a mad day, I forgot I had to sign on so rushed down there late but they fitted me in so that was ok, forgot to ring back the woman who phoned me last night, got soaked and the job centre told me I will have to go on the dreaded Work Programme after my next appointment, not happy at all, not sure whether to sign off or what. Argh...

Congrats on the job

925dancer

EndlessStruggle wrote: »

I have had a mad day, I forgot I had to sign on so rushed down there late but they fitted me in so that was ok, forgot to ring back the woman who phoned me last night, got soaked and the job centre told me I will have to go on the dreaded Work Programme after my next appointment, not happy at all, not sure whether to sign off or what. Argh...

Congrats on the job

How long have you been unemployed?

Blokey at my 13 week review yesterday said this doesn't kick in until 1 year now and everything else up to that point is flexible and agreed between "customer" and advisor. I nearly kissed him when he told me!