Two interviews- talk about your design skills and your sales techniques .
How can you understand customers- how many years of design experience- how do you fit into ikeas culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Years of experience
Customer relations
Design experience
Social skills
I applied online. I interviewed at IKEA (Amberes) in Sep 2018
Interview
Relaxed atmosphere, education background doesn't matter to IKEA as long as you are motivated and willing to learn. IKEA will provide other job offers if they can't put you on the desired vacancy
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you handle background noise (since IKEA is very crowded and you have to work in the middle of the store)
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at IKEA (Cardiff, Gales) in Jan 2018
Interview
Applied for Kitchen specialist position in Cardiff store. I was invited to a group interview at the store. This was a friendly and fun affair, around 12 applicants were gathered around tables in a room, we introduced ourselves and then working in two groups worked out and then presented answers to questions. 1. list five points which describe excellent customer service. 2. Describe your ideal kitchen. It was all very relaxed and we were told that getting the perfect answer wasn't important. Took about 1 to 2 hours.
I was invited back for an interview after a long wait due to Christmas/January sale. Interview was with the kitchens shopkeeper with somebody from HR taking notes. I was asked a variety of questions, mostly standard retail, some slightly obscure. Then i was taken to the shopfloor and told to use the kitchen design software to design my ideal kitchen.