I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Monica Vinader (Birmingham, England) in Nov 2018
Interview
emailed for a group interview
trail shift in LONDON ( I'm from Birmingham) highly, however, I still went
2 weeks I had to wait for my response, and I was not selected for the role as I was not a 'good match' for the store, this was firstly a Christmas temp position.
I have been selling jewelry since the age of 16...
At the trial shift you are given a quick brief of names of products and types, tried to learn them within 20 minutes, you approach the shop floor and it feels like the staff are in some competition, whenever I would try to serve a customer a staff member would intervene and take the customer away before I would be able to discuss further how to help them. The staff just seemed hungry for the commission, stealing customers from each other isn't a good sign for 'teamwork'
By the time they responded to me I was already into my 4th shift elsewhere. not impressed with the hiring process. At the end of the trail shift I was for some reason having another Interview with the manager there, something I was not prepared for.
Applied for a Sales Associate position and was put through an unnecessarily grueling 3-round interview process. Three separate rounds for what should be a straightforward entry-level sales role is completely excessive and shows a lack of respect for candidates' time. The company clearly doesn't value efficiency or understand appropriate hiring practices for this level of position. Would not recommend wasting your time here when other companies can make hiring decisions without dragging candidates through multiple unnecessary interviews.
A group interview- mainly asked about what you knew about jewellery, MV and to act out a sales scene. It was relaxed, not too stress, this was in 2021 so things may have changed now. A lot of the peeps applying are uni students.
Didn’t get back to me for a long time and didn’t give me any feedback. I have done interviews for retail roles before and have lots of experience, so found this surprising.
