Tesco interview - What kind of questions do they ask you?

Question

Just thought I'd post it here since I live in Belfast ^^

So I have an interview for Tesco. I've never been to an interview before so I'm kind worried. What if I have no idea what to say? From what people have told me questions for interviews seem hard...and I'm not good with on the spot questions...

I'm pretty sure I won't get the job anyway because I'm only 16, I've never had a job before, I'm quite a quiet person, not confident enough and will probably come across as a complete loser, so I probably wouldn't be too appealing!

Anyway, enough of the negativity. If anyone's been to a Tesco interview, could you please tell me what type of questions they will ask me?

Answer 1

It been 11 years since I had my interview. Even though I still with them.

Just be open and honest with them, and look at the person who is interviewing you, when you answer their questions.

GOOD LUCK!!!!!

Answer 2

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

What are your ambitions?

What do you know about Tesco?

Why do you want a job at Tesco?

Answer 3

I haven't been to a Tesco interview but:

Firstly they would only let you have an interview if they thought you had any chance of being good at the job, so thats a start.

Next, to get anywhere in life you need to have more confidence in yourself. Easier said than done, but be confident.

Now to the questions. They simply just ask you little questions like are you a good time keeper? Can you work well on your own and in a team? They will ask little things like this. They won't ask you any tough questions that you will struggle to answer. Its just the basic, why did you apply, have you had any previous jobs or work experience, etc.

Good luck.

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Answer 4

If Tesco have invited you for an interview you have the job.  They base your whole application on the questionnaire thing you do in your application form.  I can't think of anyone who's gone to an interview who hasn't got the job.  When I turned up for mine I got given my hours already there.

The interview really is nothing to worry about; the usual format is they'll get a group of you along, they wait till they have several vacancies, then a group of you will go in together.  When you go in there you'll be asked to introduce yourself to the group, being at college still its easy, just say hi I'm blah and I'm at college doing A-levels whatever; don't go off on one, they only want a brief introduction and just to check you can talk to other people.  Do just treat it like you're chatting to them, its nothing formal,

They'll ask you some questions, any experience etc. answer honestly, they don't really care.  Try and think of some time you've helped someone recently, any time you've dealt with a difficult situation with another person, held someone's confidence.  The questions will be along those lines; I got 'when was the last time you stopped to help someone'  I couldn't think of anything but 'well I helped a kid who had fallen off his bike' that was it.  No one else did any better; we all got given our hours before we left the room.

They'll throw some discussion questions out there for the group to answer; I can't remember what I got, I remember they were pointless and none of us could really be bothered to answer.  They were fine with that, just try and say a bit if you can, just to prove you can talk to a group of strangers.

Nothing is that difficult so don't stress about it.  If you have the interview you have the job as I said, you'd have to really go some to mess it up.  When you first start work you'll be expected to wear a white shirt and black trousers/skirt; go to your interview wearing something similar to this you'll be fine.

Don't worry yourself about it its fine; they won't mine if your nervous as long as you make an effort to say hi and who you are, and answer the questions your asked to; when if you give amazingly rubbish answers, just force yourself to say something.

I don't know if that's a great help, I can't really think of much more to write, nothing happens in the interview!

Good luck with it anyway, what department are you going for?  Let me know how it goes