What to expect for a Tesco Warehouse Operative Interview (3 and a half hours)?

loubie_lou

piglet25 wrote: »

Thats a bit rude Darenth87, I recall years ago attending an interview for Adsa and it was a full day - maybe they want to get to know the person they may employ? You can't really do that in a formal interview environment.

It annoyed me too! At least he's out there looking for work. I'm sure it's helped/helping a lot of people along the way too and I'm sure they want confident people who are aware how important health and safety in an environment like this is.

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Well done, and thanks for coming back to update us.
I would never have got through such a long interview.
Luckily for me in the past, my job interviews for similar jobs lasted about 5 mins max.
In fact, in some of my warehouse roles, there was no interview at all! (bliss!!!)

good luck

dori2o

Darenth87 wrote: »

3.5 to 4 hours interview for a warehouse worker job?

honestly thats keeping some HR dept nice and busy and employed.

can you remove items from a shelf can you.work safely can you log stock its all basic stuff.if i was told id have to sweat it for 4 hours to even get past first base my pride would tell them to stick it......

I wouldn't put it as strongly as that, and I applaud the OP on their jobsearch and interview, but I can see what Darenth87 is trying to get at.

It's no wonder some peole struggle to get jobs when even for some of the most unskilled positions you have to attend a half/full day interview.

I can understand wanting to get the right candidate, but when I applied for an apprenticeship at what was then one of the UK's biggest employers I didn't attend a half day interview. I had to attend a test, then an interview, and then once I had been accepted I had to attend a medical.

Even for the public sector job I have now, I attended a test/role play which took about an hour, and then came back for an interview once my application had been sifted.

I'm not suggesting every employer should just have a 20 minute interview and base everything off that,of course some positions require much more than that, but I do think some companies make it much harder than it needs to be just to apply for a job.

Simplifying the processes of applying for jobs can only be a good thing for the majority of people.

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Isn't it better to know after an 'extended' interview that the place/job isn't for you?
If more employers offered a days work trial I reckon there would be less quiters/people not understanding what is expected.

All interviews with lengthy processes have usually been committed to employees as much as anything in my experience - if I'm scared of a written test, a roleplay and more then 1 interview as is now expected and the norm for a contact centre role then I shouldn't be applying..rembering the Skype interview I once had and what a disaster that was because no passion was born for the place I was then sent to work at