Week 15 - Interviews at John Lewis & Sports Direct

This week we watched them go off all by themselves to their John Lewis interviews.

The human equivalent of sending our kids to "the dropoff".

They are as prepared as they can be.

We used our free time off from leading the workshop to test out our 'CV handing out' session the following week.

I'd insisted we dumb down our CVs in an attempt to prove that we can find work relying solely on our attitude and personality instead of our skills and experience. 

As far as anyone who sees my CV is concerned, I am currently in my first year of university with 2 weeks work experience and currently doing volunteer work at a local youth charity called Leaders In Community!

After finding the clothes stores incredibly busy we decided to head for the food court. We agreed to only give out our CVs where we deemed we had a 70% chance or more of getting a call back. We based this on our own judgement of how much the store staff liked us.

Some good approaches including me getting tips from the girl behind the counter on how she got the job and getting a meeting with Wagamama store manager in 3 steps.

*For more information on the Wagamama aproach see "Week 16 - 3 Steps to working at Wagamama"

Anhar also had his moments: 

Store staff: "All our recruitment is done online. You'll have to register through our website"

Anhar: "But I'm right here in front of you now. I'm saving you time and money by cutting out the steps in between!"

And then again at Sports Direct, he'd gone in looking for a job and 15 minutes later, he'd come out with job interviews lined up the following week for our candidates to fill 3 vacancies.

This guy is a serious professional.