Interviewing for a Shop Assistant

Why you need us!

Your shop assistants are the face of the business to your customers so recruiting the best available can make or break your company. Interview Quizzes helps you find the best employees for your particular needs with the least demand on your time. And all for only £19.

According to "Retail Economics", in 2019 there were 306,655 retail outlets in the UK and all of them are looking to recruit good retail assistants – we are here to make sure that you get to the best of them first!

How we can help

We understand that your business needs to be unique if it is to prosper on the high street and therefore your requirements are unique as well. You might run a bakers, a barbers, a butchers or a thousand other types of shop/store but you know better than anyone what skills you are looking for in your helpers. You choose the competencies you need and our programming will create an online test that reveals each applicants strengths and weaknesses.

10 things that make a great shop assistant

• Mathematical ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide
• Command of written English to prepare and execute customer orders
• IT skills - shops are ever more dependent upon computers
• General knowledge to talk intelligently to customers
• Affinity with the products being sold
• Innate desire to get on with people
• Ability to smile when faced with difficult customers
• Patience – silly customer questions are part of the job!
• Good team player
• Fit enough to stand and walk around all day

First things first

You advertise your job online or in the local press and people respond.

Construct your unique interview quiz

You are free to choose whichever 4 categories you want but here are our 4 suggested tests for the job of a sales assistant:

1. English (Basic)
2. Maths (Basic)
3. IT
4. General Knowledge

Pre-Interview

As we see it, there is absolutely no point in wasting your time on interviewing candidates who don't possess the core abilities to do the job so we aim to weed these out early on. You send them the unique quiz that we have created for you and ask them to play it online. When they do, their results are recorded for you so that you can compare each potential employee with all the other applicants.

Some of the potential employees won't bother to play the quiz but with that lack of recruitment enthusiasm both you and us are happy to let them go and find a job elsewhere! Others might say they haven't got a computer but if they haven't got the initiative to find a device they can use for an hour then do you really want them to work for you?

When the results come in, some of the candidates will have performed very badly and at that point you can decide whether it is worth offering them an interview.

The applicants that show potential can be invited for an interview.

At the Interview

When it comes to the job interviews you will be armed with a single page list showing the results of the online tests. This will highlight who is good at what and it will be the best possible tool to help you formulate the right interview questions to ask.

Conclusion

We can't decide who is best for you but we can provide the tools to help you MAKE BETTER DECISIONS, FASTER.