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Best Buy Interview (Help!)
I have an interesting scenario. I am applying to work at Best Buy.
My first interview was with HR, I think, and the second interview was with the Department Manager (who is also the General Manager). During the 2nd interview, the GM asked me if I had retail sales experience, and I told him I didn't, but I have customer service experience.
My third interview is later this week and it will be with the Computer Specialist or the Computer Department Head (or someone of that nature, I can't remember).
I originally applied for an $8.00/hour job as a sales associate, and at my second interview, they told me they may consider me for a part-time computer sales position at $8.50.
Will my third interview be a general interview or will it be a technical interview? I am very confused, as the third interview is usually with the GM.
Also, do you think I got the job since this will be my third interview and I've met with the Department Manager/GM?
Please help :S it's this Tuesday morning (June 29th).
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Hi there,
Just a couple notes on your progress here:
There is NO "usually" with anything above the fast food level.
I have personally interviewed people seven or eight times before final decisions were made. This is rare, but four or five times is very common.
Sounds from here as though they were happy with you on the second interview, but thought of another slot where you would make a better addition to the company.
If they like you there, you may speak to someone over that person before you talk to the hiring manager, which is, in this case, probably the GM.
These may both happen in the same day, or they may call you back in again.
From here, it sounds like you are on track for a job.
As someone else mentioned... relax. These things take time.
Frankly, finding any job at all in an economy like this is getting to be a real challenge, but people forget that it is a challenge for the employers as well.
How? Well, most places are drowning in resumes and the people applying are desperate. This means they are willing to work what they can get.
Every manager hopes that someone with 10 years experience will walk through the door, and now it happens every day. This is why you are fortunate to find an entry level job at all. Most are being filled by people who wouldn't have dreamed of working them only a year or two ago.
An astrophysicist once took my order at McDonald's after General Dynamics closed unexpectedly... ponder that one for a sec.
Anyway, long story short: Everything sounds good.
The interview coming up is likely to be both technical and general knowledge... just to see where you fit in on the tech scale.
Relax. Be yourself. Don't try to be more tech savvy than you are. You will either look stupid (if the person knows what they are doing) or you will get hired for a job that you don't have any idea how to do (if the person hiring is fooled.)
I have interviewed a truly frightening number of people and if I could tell them just one thing before they came in it would be this:
Jobs are very often more about how you fit into the team than what you know, so be yourself.
If you fit in, then you will get the job. If not, then trust me... you didn't want to work in a place you would clash with others anyway.
The rest of your life, please remember that info and it will serve you well.
Please let me know what happens at your interview when you leave feedback.
Hope you like how you look in blue and yellow. :-)
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Take a deep breath, and just go in and look at their products.
Really, just doing that, and being aware of what they sell in their computer department (netbooks, iPads, dells, ectra) will probably be the perfect kind of prep and the only thing worth worrying about.
You can even whip it out in your interview "Yeah, I took a look on the floor and saw that brand..." Or "I didn't see XX on the floor, do you carry them?"
It will probably not be more technical then some questions about your computer experience and if you know how to set up a printer. Even if you flub some of their technical questions, if you take the time to explore their stock and ask about it, you'll prove you're a keener and will do well in the interview.
They are paying yah $8.50 to start hun. They aren't expecting a computer programer, just someone who is not an idiot and pays a bit of attention. You've been through two interviews and proven you are no idiot, throw in a bit of attention and sense and you'll be sailing.
They are putting a lot of energy into you, so they probably want to give you a job. But just because a company likes you doesn't mean they have a job for you. Don't worry too much if you don't get the job. Clearly you've got the interview skills to get A job somewhere.
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