I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at UPS (New York, NY) in Nov 2014
Interview
I filled out the application and as soon as I finished I was asked to set an appointment time for and interview the next day. I got to the interview and it was sort of like a group interview. We sat in this room for like 2 hours waiting to be interviewed. Then the hr FINALLY came and pulled us out by groups of ten. One by one we went inside the interview room and she asked for our email and do we have a record. If your responses were right she told you orientation is the next day and wear boots to the orientation and you have some extra paper work to fill out once you get home. Basically you got the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No difficult questions. Just why do you want to work for UPS? As long as you have a clean background your hired.
I applied online. I interviewed at UPS (Hagerstown, MD) in Oct 2014
Interview
Upon arrival one sits with a group of other applicants. Short 'n sweet. 10 minute group meeting followed by 2-3 minute individual interview. Not many questions asked. 'Can you lift 70 pounds (without a forklift hehe)?' Bring 2 forms of ID, which they will copy. You will be asked to call them back at a specific time if you still want the job.
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at UPS (Dallas, TX) in Dec 2013
Interview
This past Christmas (2013) was crazy in this area. They needed help badly. I didn't know you could apply as early as SEPTEMBER until someone told me that. Go ahead and do this. You fill out an app online, wait for them to call and then go to the information meeting. Then they do a background check, short interview, and you show up for an orientation. They have several times available.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) I had a gentleman constantly shipping things from another country. He refused to wrap the packages well & they kept coming slowly. I had to gently tell him to rewrap them.
2) The whole receiving terminal shut down twice this season because of ice and snow, in this area. Consequently, many packages were late (although I was blessed that this didn't happen much in the delivery area I was in). One man was angry and wanted me to take the package back. I kindly explained why it was late and told him how sorry I was and took it back. UPS is good about those things.
3) HEAVY LIFTING! It was apparently appropriate to ask the receiver of the package to help you. I hated doing this, but I am a woman and had a man receiving a STOVE up 3 flights of stairs. I wish they would invent or maybe I could invent something that would help get stuff like this upstairs.
4) Security. I cannot tell you how many times idiots wondered what I was doing when I had a dolly, a UPS uniform and a truck a few yards away from me with UPS emblazoned on it! People need to check their paranoia.