Interview report...
Mar. 24th, 2009 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reymonkeyWell... I'll be surprised if I don't get the job.
I can also tell who probably is not going to get the job, because it's just not good to, when asked if there are any questions, ask about the drug test, the frequency of drug tests, and the specific timing of drug tests.
They did a batch of eight people, in which I was the only woman, but everyone that was in their office was female. Even down to the intern or whatever in the background who we only glimpsed. I was the best dressed. I was almost the only one who spoke, the other two who did being the drug test guy, and another guy who had worked for them before and was looking to be rehired after a space of years I guess, and was therefore already chummy with the office people. They taught us the very basics of some handheld scanner things and let us play around with them, counting poster-sized photos of store shelves, which is a lot more informal than the practical test I expected. I... did not get 100% accuracy on any of them, which bummed me out a little, but the woman doing the interview thing (did I mention we have the same name, too?) and the district manager were walking around kind of checking up and said I was only off by 1 or 2 percent. They weren't too stressed over it, especially since I was willing to own up to it. I said it'd been a while since I did inventory and they both went oh you have inventory experience!!! They asked where, which led to me chatting with the district manager about RShack because her husband used to work there.
Yeah, I think I'm in.
They also did the brief private interview with me first, and it was all pretty friendly and I was told I scored really well on the online assessment when I first applied. My only concern is the car, because it's driving to different locations all over the place, but it's running pretty well apart from some minor fanbelt issues that I need to muck with. No reimbursement for gas, and it's part time, but the job pays $8.50 an hour and that's more than I was making before. At my last job, I mean.
So. Yeah. I don't want to count inventory the rest of my life, but the job doesn't sound half bad after all.
I can also tell who probably is not going to get the job, because it's just not good to, when asked if there are any questions, ask about the drug test, the frequency of drug tests, and the specific timing of drug tests.
They did a batch of eight people, in which I was the only woman, but everyone that was in their office was female. Even down to the intern or whatever in the background who we only glimpsed. I was the best dressed. I was almost the only one who spoke, the other two who did being the drug test guy, and another guy who had worked for them before and was looking to be rehired after a space of years I guess, and was therefore already chummy with the office people. They taught us the very basics of some handheld scanner things and let us play around with them, counting poster-sized photos of store shelves, which is a lot more informal than the practical test I expected. I... did not get 100% accuracy on any of them, which bummed me out a little, but the woman doing the interview thing (did I mention we have the same name, too?) and the district manager were walking around kind of checking up and said I was only off by 1 or 2 percent. They weren't too stressed over it, especially since I was willing to own up to it. I said it'd been a while since I did inventory and they both went oh you have inventory experience!!! They asked where, which led to me chatting with the district manager about RShack because her husband used to work there.
Yeah, I think I'm in.
They also did the brief private interview with me first, and it was all pretty friendly and I was told I scored really well on the online assessment when I first applied. My only concern is the car, because it's driving to different locations all over the place, but it's running pretty well apart from some minor fanbelt issues that I need to muck with. No reimbursement for gas, and it's part time, but the job pays $8.50 an hour and that's more than I was making before. At my last job, I mean.
So. Yeah. I don't want to count inventory the rest of my life, but the job doesn't sound half bad after all.
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Date: Mar. 24th, 2009 09:42 pm (UTC)I can also tell who probably is not going to get the job, because it's just not good to, when asked if there are any questions, ask about the drug test, the frequency of drug tests, and the specific timing of drug tests.
Ahahaha. That's really sad.
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Date: Mar. 24th, 2009 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 24th, 2009 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mar. 25th, 2009 12:14 am (UTC)I, uh, I usually try not to ask too many specific questions about drug tests.
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Date: Mar. 25th, 2009 02:04 am (UTC)