I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Currys (Dublin, Dublin) in Aug 2016
Interview
I received a phone call a few days after completing the online questionnaire asking me to participate in an interview the next day. The first part of the interview consisted of basic questions, tell me about yourself, why carphone warehouse, talk about your experience it was fairly straightforward. The manager orchestrating the interview was really nice and went through the job role answering any of my questions. This lasted about 15/20 minutes. The second part of the interview consisted of me going down to the shop floor approaching customers asking them about their broadband at home and talking about current bundles and deals carphone warehouse was offering for different providers such as vodafone, eir and virgin. The task was set to see how well I dealt with approaching and talking to customers. I had to try and bring people to the desk to find out more information. It was very daunting but once you began talking to customers it was fine. I was on the shop floor for half an hour and then brought back up to the interview room to talk about final details such as pay, hours, training and told I would be contacted within a week or so. Overall it was a good interview process and for anyone that gets through and is worried about the second part of the interview don't be its quite easy you are not expected to know about products just be able to communicate with customers and walk up to them with no hesitation it was very valuable experience from an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about yourself, why carphone warehouse?, tell me about your experience, times you had sell things?, Working within a team - a lot of emphasis of hitting targets
Definitely the easiest interview I had ever done. It was just an informal chat with one of the managers with really simple and straightforward questions and asking about my availability.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Currys
Interview
Fairly easy, staff were friendly and a smooth process. The employers do not make you feel pressurised, it helps when you have previous sales experience but if you show them you are eager to learn and are engaged in tech. they'll definitely want you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself? What are your hours like to work?
Initial group interview and then one to one afterwards. Very relaxed setting and was made comfortable by staff undertaking interview. The whole process was very quick and communication was great.