After submitting the online application I was invited to a recruitment day. Activities included trying to style a celebrity and performing a skit. It's easy to get noticed if you are a team player.

It was a group interview and I had applied online a week before. The manager gave me a call and email arranging for the interview to be after store hours. Arrived 15 minutes early and chatted with a couple of the other girls waiting outside, we then went in. Manager was super friendly and casual, explained to us what it is like being a Christmas casual and what we can expect. She talked about the principles of sales (approaching the customer, returning to the customer in 30 seconds, listening, asking & offering, PWOs, sending customers off, etc.) We stood in a circle and had a minute to talk to a partner and get to know them so we can introduce them to the rest of the group. We also did more activities like being put into pairs and given a scenario for a hypothetical customer for an event and we had to find products in-store for them, taking into account deals and discounts on at the time. We presented this to the group and the manager offered us feed-back on what she would have done differently. We then got into groups of three and were given an event and one of us had to be the model, and styled the model for the event. We had 'Splendour in the Grass' Music Festival and again, taking into account deals in-store styled them with accessories and had a budget of $100. We then, individually had to pick a deal in-store and choose a product to sell to and if we had any other questions. She explained that we would know of the results within 7 days by em the rest of the group and it was referred to as 'deal or no-deal' as the group could could say 'deal or no-deal' if they felt we didn't sell it well enough. Everyone was nice though and said 'deal'. After the activities the manager explained more on what they were looking for, what sort of KPIs they had and expectations they had of casuals. She also asked us questions relating to the topics she had discussed at the start of the group interview about selling products. She said we would be notified within 7 days on whether or not we were successful, by email or phone call. She was hiring multiple casuals and she had invited 20 people but only 8 showed up. I don't know if I got the job yet or not as this is only the next day.