Stupid Best Buy Applications

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: radioouman
Answer in the best interest of the company's bottom line. That is all.

I learned this the hard way when I first applied for a job at KFC when I was still in high school. It was a behavioral application in which I had to answer multiple multiple answer questions. I answered it HONESTLY to the best of MY interest and I never got the call. Answering it in the best of the company's bottom line would have resulted in a different story.

I also remember applying for one such company in which one of the questions was, "Do you consider yourself good looking?"

I answered yes. What the hell was I supposed to answer? NO?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper

*caution* I may sound ignant in this post.


~ThE KeEp~

Is that ebonic for "ignorant"?

 

[amdhunter]

OK, to be considered for a Best Buy application, here is the trick to landing an interview.

ONLY answer HIGHLY AGREE or STONGLY DISAGREE and make sure it is the most appealing to Best Buys interests. DO NOT ANSWER ANYTHING IN BETWEEN!

If you follow this, you will be guaranteed an interview.

/thread

Yes, I know people who work in Best Buy on the managerial level (and yes they are all ghey.)

 

[GoPackGo]

Always tell them...Yes I will steal from you...No you will never catch me....

Then if a manager asks you why they wont catch you...

Say...well, I have been stealing from you for years and you have got me yet....

Then....Sing a bar of Alices Restaurant and walk out.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: hpkeeper
I'm not a person who lacks morals or anything,

Sorry, Best Buy will not be interested in you.

 

[clickynext]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: hpkeeper
I'm not a person who lacks morals or anything,

Sorry, Best Buy will not be interested in you.

My thoughts exactly.

I applied, and answered so that I should have come off as a completely honest, objective person, and didn't get it.

 

[flexy]

i KNOW from a hiring manager here in TN, she looks at the applications and ONLY acknowledges those where it says "fully agree" or "fully disagree".

Every application where you chose answers "in between" gets immediately ignored !

 

[flexy]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
OK, to be considered for a Best Buy application, here is the trick to landing an interview.

ONLY answer HIGHLY AGREE or STONGLY DISAGREE and make sure it is the most appealing to Best Buys interests. DO NOT ANSWER ANYTHING IN BETWEEN!

If you follow this, you will be guaranteed an interview.

/thread

YES !!!

 

[Cobalt]

You need to answer strongly in either direction for most of the questions. They are looking for people with confidence in themselves and their decisions.

 

[Thraxen]

I love how they don't ask any questions directly related to product knowledge for the area to which you are applying to work :roll:

It's all a bunch or personality crap... yet you go to the store and they have as many idiots and a-holes as anyone else.

They also ask a bunch of vague questions. For example, I remember one question asking if I liked large crowds. OK, so how do you define "large"? For me, the biggest crowd I'm likely encounter is 70,000-100,000 people at a football game. Do I enjoy that? During the game I do... but I sure as hell don't enjoy being herded in and out of the stadium like cattle. I don't think of "large" crowd as being in a store. And who really enjoys shopping in big holiday crowds? No one. People are always in such pissy moods while doing shopping in big crowds.

So how do you answer that question? It totally depends on the situation and how you define "large". If everyone answered honestly they would say "no"... but we all know if you answer that way you won't likely be hired.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I love how they don't ask any questions directly related to product knowledge for the area to which you are applying to work :roll:

It's all a bunch or personality crap... yet you go to the store and they have as many idiots and a-holes as anyone else.

They also ask a bunch of vague questions. For example, I remember one question asking if I liked large crowds. OK, so how do you define "large"? For me, the biggest crowd I'm likely encounter is 70,000-100,000 people at a football game. Do I enjoy that? During the game I do... but I sure as hell don't enjoy being herded in and out of the stadium like cattle. I don't think of "large" crowd as being in a store. And who really enjoys shopping in big holiday crowds? No one. People are always in such pissy moods while doing shopping in big crowds.

So how do you answer that question? It totally depends on the situation and how you define "large". If everyone answered honestly they would say "no"... but we all know if you answer that way you won't likely be hired.

Yep, the people who work there are probably the best liars/fakers out there. Or they just know the manager.

As for vague questions, always think about it in terms of what they're trying to find out in terms of the store. If it's 'do you like large crowds' at BB, they obviously want to know if you can deal with busy shopping days (Black Friday, Christmas, etc.), not much ambiguity there. They don't give a horses *** about what happens in a stadium.

At least it's multiple choice. Summer job I applied for (and got somehow) last year had the same type of test, except it was all written. Questions were like "you have access to sensitive information, if a friend asks you to spy on someone with it, what do you do?" and "discuss a past experience in which you served/received good customer service". Now those are nightmare questions: I had to bite my tongue trying not to write, yes, I will steal from you and I am your company's Kruegar.

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: Imp
As for vague questions, always think about it in terms of what they're trying to find out in terms of the store. If it's 'do you like large crowds' at BB, they obviously want to know if you can deal with busy shopping days (Black Friday, Christmas, etc.), not much ambiguity there. They don't give a horses *** about what happens in a stadium.

Yeah, but even when just talking about their store, people are still going to have varying levels of "large". For one person it might be having 80 people in the store and for another it might be 200. Or it might be relative to the position and one person might consider a "large crowd" as having 15 people in their checkout line. And in the end no one "enjoys" it. They should just come right out and ask "Can you handle Christmas holiday shopping crowds with a smile on your face?" That removes virtually all ambiguity by defining the size by the Christmas holiday and doesn't force the applicant to lie by claiming they "enjoy" those crowds.

 

[hpkeeper]

^^^^Check OP^^^^

 

[BudAshes]

NUMBER 1 THING DONT ANSWER HONESTLY. NUMBER 2 THING ANSWER LIKE YOU ARE A SNIVELING SUCK UP.

Do those 2 things and you got the job, keep doing them and you will keep the job.

 

[Toastedlightly]

Sadly, I am considering a full time job next summer/fall at best buy. Damn school costing money .

 

[Brentx]

I work at Best Buy in the Geek Squad. I have heard horror stories about other people working there, but I seriously love my job.

I applied there 3 times to get them to schedule my interview with a person there. And the third time I applied I found out that a manager I had worked for in the past was a store manager there, which I think is how I might have gotten in. Either way, I'm happy to be where I am now.

What store are you applying for?
Also what department? Maybe I can send an email to one of the store managers for ya .

But I do have to agree that the personality test is crap, as they have a specific set of answers that they want you to answer, and if you don't answer them right, you application gets thrown out the window. Which is why you probably have been told to reapply multiple times.


EDIT: I didn't see your edit. Have fun with the interview process. First they will set up a "Lvl 2 Interview" where they will ask you product knowledge and general knowledge questions. This is probably the interview you will have on the 1st.

Next they will do a "Lvl 3" interview. That will be to figure out how much you want to be paid. You will also talk to the dept senior or supervisor of which dept you are applying for. If he gives the heads up for you to get hired, you are in.


Good Luck!

 

[Kur]

You do know most company's use those questions now right? If I remember right only half are a question, the other half is the same question worded different.

 

[marulee]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg

Originally posted by: radioouman
Answer in the best interest of the company's bottom line. That is all.

Sad, but true.

Right!

 

[GagHalfrunt]

For the "Do you want to work for Best Buy?" question you have to answer NO!, that's the key. If you answer yes it proves that you're either lying or insane, so either way they won't hire you.

 

[PrinceofWands]

I always fail those things, but I don't mind because if they don't believe fairly close in line with how I answer I wouldn't want to work there anyway.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I've taken that app at least a dozen times (that application is used by BB, CC, and some other retail joints).

Hired at CC every time I tried.