Top 40 Retail Interview Questions
Prepping for the big interview? Here are the questions you’re likely to face, with some tips on answering many of them.
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Where Can A Career in HR Lead You?
People person? We’ve got just the career for you. A Career in Human Resources Every organisation needs people. Scratch that. Every organisation needs the right people, people who bring not just the right mix of skills or experience, but that certain something that makes them a perfect fit. Once they’ve been hired, they need onboarding,
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How to Improve Diversity & Inclusion in Recruitment
Of course you want to be inclusive in your hiring practices. But how do you actually do it? Here’s the ZD guide. What is inclusive hiring? Here’s what it’s not: it’s not a numbers game. It’s not about hiring X number of workers from underrepresented backgrounds purely so you can say your organisation is diverse
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10 Classic Interview Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
We’ve written before about how to nail the virtual interview and how to overcome your interview nerves. But what should you avoid saying or doing at the interview? Here’s our guide to 10 no-nos you’ll want to stay well clear of. Classic Interview Mistakes Mistakes #1 – Arriving late “The trains were on strike –
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ZD GUIDES: The Ultimate Cover Letter Writing Guide
The CV is a work of genius. Now, you (probably) just need to pair it with a great cover letter. But why do you need a cover letter? And how do you write one?
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ZD GUIDES: The Ultimate CV Writing Guide
You already have a CV. It’s pretty much the same one you’ve been using for the past few years, give or take a tweak or two. But is it doing the job for you?
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10 Ways to Beat Interview Nerves
The interview’s looming and the nerves are starting to jangle. So how can you keep yourself calm and ensure that come to the interview, you’re able to perform? We asked Team ZD for their top tips. Control what you can A great part of the fear of an interview comes from not knowing what to
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Recruitment Agencies: Which Traits Matter Most?
We asked you what traits are most important in your recruitment agency. Here’s what you told us. Not long ago, we ran a LinkedIn poll where we asked our followers a simple question: what trait matters most in your recruiter? It was an anonymous poll, so we can’t be certain of the split between respondents
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5 Ways Retailers Are Helping Staff through the Cost-of-Living Crisis
…and 5 ways they’re helping shoppers too. We know what you’re thinking: just five? It’s a fair point. Since the cost-of-living crisis became this country’s most unwelcome thing since the last unwelcome thing, retailers have done what they always do. They’ve stepped up and made a difference in the lives of staff and customers in
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It’s our 10th birthday. We’d like to celebrate by finding some brilliant talent to join the team. You know how recruitment has a bit of a reputation? That it’s populated by hustlers and blaggers who talk a good game and don’t really deliver much? Those aren’t our kind of people. The ZD team want to
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Zachary Daniels is 10!
String out the bunting. Crack open the beers! And give us just a few minutes to get a little emotional. We’re ten years old, and co-founder and MD Danny Monfea has some thoughts (and feels) about that. “In 2012, two men and a dog (literally) saw an opportunity to create a very different recruitment consultancy.
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Zachary Daniels rewards staff by putting them in the driving seat
How do you retain staff, attract top talent and show clients you walk the walk? We have done it by giving our people a majority stake in the business. When retail changed, the world of retail recruitment changed with it. Yet thanks to a monumental effort from ‘Team ZD’, Zachary Daniels has more than weathered
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