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Retail store manager

Covers sales and targets, staffing and rotas, coaching, stock and loss, customer complaints and store standards. Suits supervisors, assistant managers and store managers. Follow-ups push for figures, what the candidate did on the floor and how the team responded.

Suits: Retail store manager, Assistant store manager, Shop manager, Store supervisor, Retail area manager

Questions
7 of 17
Length
35 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Junior to Senior
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Sales and commercial sense30%
    • Team leadership30%
    • Customer service20%
    • Store operations20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Sales and commercial sense30%
    Reads store numbers and takes actions that grow sales.
  • Team leadership30%
    Coaches, schedules and manages people fairly and well.
  • Customer service20%
    Handles customers calmly and improves their experience.
  • Store operations20%
    Runs stock, loss, safety and routines to a high standard.
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