Got a telephone interview with Topshop for a sales assistant job, what will they ask me?
If you are applying for a sales assistant job with Topshop and they want a phone interview, they will ask you when can you start, do you have your own transportation, and can you do flexible hours such as evenings and weekends. They are only trying to weed out the obvious rejects and set up proper interviews. Sales jobs have a high turnover rate because sales jobs usually have low pay with high incentives and sales people have high confidence in themselves so if something is not working, they see it as a flawed program and they go elsewhere where they can get rich selling. What that should mean to you is that companies are always trying to fill sales positions. The most critical job is usually having a sales person when the customer is ready to buy. If there is no sales person to answer a question or ring up the sale, the customer walks away and the company loses the sale. And the money spent on attracting those lost customers is wasted. Most other jobs can be behind with a backlog of
