o2 interview on monday

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 14:16

Hello everyone, i have a question.

Yesterday i passed the telephone interview for an o2 job and this monday i have a face to face interview. Can you give me any tips? I was asked to be ready to do a 10min presentation for whatever i want (eg entertainment, gadget and so on). What do they mean by that? I mean is it going to be just a simple face to face presentation of eg. a phone's specifications and characteristics or should i prepare a powerpoint for something bigger(in a past assessment i was asked to do a ppt presentation thats why i ask). Thank you in advance and if you have some extra advice to give i will be delighted to read them.

PS. I just came from greece and this type of interview is my first. thank you in advance

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 16:27

Just a simple sales advisors job.

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 17:39

Yeap i kinda have something in mind. I'll do some reading about them first though

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 20:57

To be honest i myself worked back in greece in 2 similar positions. I always told the owner before i took the job that i am gonna be honest to the customers, and i will get them to buy the very best thing THEY can buy with the money THEY WANT to spent. Nothing more.And i took the job everytime.But that was back in greece.. Every single time that i did that, it worked.I saw other sales advisors trying to sell (not carring for the customer, just trying to sell the priciest thing in store, even though we didn't get paid depending on our sales).

As a customer myself i hate when i move in a store, and the sales advisors try to sell me crappy staff, thinking that i have no clue of what they are selling me most of the time. I live through technology. I know what i am gonna buy. I just want to get some advice between different products. Which to buy and staff like that..

About the presentation, i was thinking to present my phone, the technical specs and explain the pros of the device. Nope i don't have an iphone( i don't like paying for things that other companies gave me 8 years ago for free)(but i aint gonna tell them that).. I have a TG01 (wm6.5 and lots of goodies) which i bought last year for only 140 pounds..

The guy in the phone interview told me for the presentation to present whatever i like (if it is entertainment or something in technology). When i told him that i was gonna do a presentation of my smartphone he said that would be better. What do you think?

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 21:28

It's this monday 10o'clock in the morning. Its only for 6 months (maternity cover?i think thats how it's called) but it is something to start. After all i am after some graduate schemes next year.. Aaron do you remember any difficult questions they asked you?

Basically i am asking all this because its gonna be my 2nd interview here in uk. I had my first with carphone warehouse and i thought it went good. But i didn't get the job. I think that was because i didnt have back then a bank account and they didnt get my passport(they did take a copy of it from all the others) telling me that if i took the job then they would help me get a bank account and then they would take my passport copy... So i am kinda nervous..

I don't want to mess it.

apostolis_kt · 5 Nov 2010 at 23:45

aaron thank you very much..can i ask you another thing? First step its phone interview. Then is the face to face interview. Is it the last step? Or there is also another one? ANd how long does it take to learn that you have passed?

apostolis_kt · 6 Nov 2010 at 00:22

Y i did apply online. It was listed there since august (thats kinda odd). Basically i am asking because i am also thinking about the grad schemes and how much time will i have in order to go to assessments(thats an omg part back in greece we don't have things like this) and work together. Anyway ill start sending cvs for grad schemes also, the deadlines are till next month... But i hope to get the o2 job, to get a start. I love beeing around gadgets and technology ( i would apply to ocUK for a system builder or a sales job but they arent in Edinburgh

) so fingers crossed ill try to get it.

The phone interview guy was kind enough to give me also feedback on what did i do wrong. The only wrong think i did was that, when he was asking something ie. tell me one time when you exceeded a customer's expectations, what did you do and how did it feel like, i analysed it too much ( i told the whole story) and he told me try to avoid such thing. Well to be honest thats how i think, i forgot that here in uk you use the simple rule of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). Anyway i hope i wont say more than i will be asked on monday.

Man if i was a manager, and i interviewed someone that never had an iphone, I would definetely ask her/him to open the battery case for me

. I have done that with 100% success(with people that wanted to buy an iphone, because everybody else has one, even with ppl that HAVE an iphone!!!OMG). Nobody was able to open it and they tried and tried (Duh!!).