Apple recruitment seminar

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PardonTheWait said:
I don't see what's funny.

It's a recruitment seminar. For Apple. It's not a fancy way of saying a job at the Apple Store, it's a perfectly normal way of saying... Apple recruitment seminar.

Are you familiar with the term seminar?
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Wait, what? This is just for sales staff at their stores? :confused: I assumed it would be a recruitment centre for proper roles (eg like grad recruitment centres for work in the business/research side). If it's just for retail work then it really is rather pretentious...
 
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Amp34 said:
Wait, what? This is just for sales staff at their stores? :confused: I assumed it would be a recruitment centre for proper roles (eg like grad recruitment centres for work in the business/research side). If it's just for retail work then it really is rather pretentious...
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Well if they do in fact have an unusually large number of people applying for even a retail position, then doing it differently would might follow.
 
It seems that the ideal candidates are those who have outrageous tattoos and nose rings. Certainly the Belfast story has the biggest shower of odd balls I've ever seen. If you look rather poofy I'm sure it helps too.

I think the terms genius and specialist mean nothing. I once had a so called specialist ask me "what's RAID" when I was asking a question about a mac pro.
 
Amp34 said:
Wait, what? This is just for sales staff at their stores? :confused: I assumed it would be a recruitment centre for proper roles (eg like grad recruitment centres for work in the business/research side). If it's just for retail work then it really is rather pretentious...
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They get a lot of applicants, things like these are good to get a lot of people in one place and see how they interact with people, allowing you to ditch a lot of people right from the start if they don't get on with people or interact with them well, it makes good sense. They don't hire everyone like that, but new store openings and when they need to hire 10+ people at once they'll often have a little bash like that. Easier than interviewing 50 or 100 people individually.

I applied and was interviewed individually because they were only hiring about 5 staff at that time. I started with 5 others anyway. About five started the week before us as well.
 
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Also, 4P, if you don't like Apple stuff working for them would drive you insane. There's a lot of self-congratulation and brainwashing that goes on. I found it hard enough just being a sane person working there, if I didn't like the job and the products I probably would have lost my marbles.

VERY American.
 
PardonTheWait said:
They get a lot of applicants, things like these are good to get a lot of people in one place and see how they interact with people, allowing you to ditch a lot of people right from the start if they don't get on with people or interact with them well, it makes good sense. They don't hire everyone like that, but new store openings and when they need to hire 10+ people at once they'll often have a little bash like that. Easier than interviewing 50 or 100 people individually.

I applied and was interviewed individually because they were only hiring about 5 staff at that time. I started with 5 others anyway. About five started the week before us as well.
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Just seems a very expensive way of hiring for what is essentially a minimum wage job. However for big hires it would make sense.
 
Amp34 said:
Just seems a very expensive way of hiring for what is essentially a minimum wage job. However for big hires it would make sense.
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Why? Hire a function room, not really expensive, get the equivalent of a hundred interviews done? Seems reasonable to me.

For retail it's actually very well paid, you'll only get more doing retail if you're on a good bonus/commission structure, which Apple staff are not.
 
PardonTheWait said:
Why? Hire a function room, not really expensive, get the equivalent of a hundred interviews done? Seems reasonable to me.

For retail it's actually very well paid, you'll only get more doing retail if you're on a good bonus/commission structure, which Apple staff are not.
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Would the technical guys be on reasonably good dosh?
 
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