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Digital Communications at Sears
Posted Nov 18, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 1 week)
I was contacted by a staffing agency and informed about the interview with Sears. The interview began with a 2:1 interview then a 1:1 interview after. General review of past experiences and questions about future plans and aspirations. Also included situation questions that required some basic and creative knowledge of Digital Communications.
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Reason for Declining
The offer became a part-time job after I was told it was a full-time position.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Staffing Agency and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Home Services Analyst Intern at Sears
Posted Oct 27, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Hoffman Estates, IL (took a day)
Applied thru career services at my school and got an interview, lady who interviewed me was really nice and relaxed it was really enjoyable. Seems to be a really good company to work for although I have not started yet so I couldn't tell you. It was just a one on one short interview, simple basic behavioral questions and I did fine.
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Negotiation Details
No Negotiation, offered a flat salary on a per hour basis.
Other Details
The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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ECommerce Product Management (Services at Sears
Posted Oct 3, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 in Hoffman Estates, IL (took 4+ weeks)
I was recommended by one VP, in another division that didn't have any jobs available, to a VP in another division. The HR rep scheduled a series of one-on-one interviews with upper level management at Headquarters, from 8 am to noon. I was asked to fill out on online application. Their online application system is horrible. The first time I tried to fill it out, it timed me out and since it doesn't ask you to register and create an account, I had to start all over again! No information had been saved. This happened a number of times. The online application was ridiculously long. I eventually kept the answers in a Word page doc to "hurry up" the process so that I wouldn't get timed out. The day of the interview, for the most part, was pretty good. Most of the people I interviewed with were very honest about the job - very frustrating, long hours, micromanagement, never enough resources, no support, etc. I appreciated that they were warning me about what I would be getting in to, but I was unemployed and I didn't care. Then the person who was supposed to interview me from 10:30 to 11:15 didn't show up, so I just sat in the conference room and waited. The VP that I would have reported to was last and was scheduled from 11:15 to 12:00. He showed up, said he had a few phone calls to make, and stood outside of the conference room making phone calls. When he did interview me, he had a lot of open-ended questions, but they were definitely leading questions. When I provided any solutions that were customer-centric, he literally scoffed. Then he said, "Oh, you don't mind if I keep you past 12 do you?" Again, unemployed, so I said, "No." He also admitted that he hadn't read my resume, and didn't have a copy with him. I didn't have a copy either... I'd never had to give one to an interviewer, they always have it in front of them, with questions already written down. He chastised me for not having a copy of my resume. I didn't chastise him for not taking the time to prepare for an interview... He then said normally he would have read my resume, because he would have been the one to determine if I was qualified, not a VP from another division... So apparently I didn't have a chance and my day had been wasted.
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Other Details
I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Fitness Specialty Team Lead at Sears
Posted Sep 13, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Schaumburg, IL (took 2 weeks)
I was refered by a friend to apply for the position. I was then contacted via phone for a 30 min prescreen interview. A week later I was scheduled for a one on one interview with the assistant store manager. I sat down with the ast manager, I gave her my resume, she sat there for a few minutes and did not ask any questions. So I opened up the discussion about my qualifications, which I felt I was over qualifed for, having a B.S. in Exercise Science and eight years in the Fitness Industry, multiple sales awards, eight years management experience. She still was not asking any of the tipical questions that would be on an interview, so I began asking questions that I had prepaired. She was not very informative about the department and had no basic knowlege about revenues generated per square foot, what challeges or opportunities for improvements there were. Needless to say I was not impressed. About a month ago I had applied for an Assistant Store Manager position with the same company and was not even accepted for an interview. I now sit in front of an Ast Manager with 34 years in the company who is suppose to be asking me challenging questions.I was thinking to my self, here is a person who is in a position that I was denied an interview for and I was the one running the interview. Not a company that I want to work for!!!!!
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Marketing Coordinator at Sears
Posted Aug 21, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Chicago, IL (took 3 days)
Interviews lasted 9am-1pm. Met with people from the different groups within loyalty team and other departments that work with loyalty team.
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Negotiation Details
The company does not negotiate. The offer is take it or leave it. Once you are in the company it is very hard to get a pay increase when switching departments to what the company considers a parallel role .
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Sales Associate at Sears
Posted Aug 1, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Chicago, IL (took a day)
I applied online received an email and scheduled an appt. The day before the interview I received a phone call canceling because the position had been filled. The got a call the day after asking if I wanted to reschedule the interview I cancelled. That was really odd to me but I went anyway. I met with someone whom I'm not sure if she was an assistant manager, manager or associate. We spoke for a brief moment then she told me that the hiring manager would call me for another interview. I never got a call.
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Other Details
I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Buyers Apprentice Program Intern at Sears
Posted Jul 14, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Hoffman Estates, IL (took a day)
The interview was about half an hour long. There was only one interviewer, an older gentleman within the company. He asked a lot of questions about the Shop Your Way Rewards program and the non-US stores located in Puerto Rico. He also asked how I would handle a high-pressure emergency situation, like the retail equivalent of a fire alarm going off in a movie theater. Overall, it was the most unusual interview I've ever been in; he didn't ask any behavioral questions.
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Negotiation Details
I wasn't able to negotiate anything, since it was a well-established summer program.
Other Details
I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Drug Test.
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EProcurement at Sears
Posted May 31, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Hoffman Estates, IL (took 3+ weeks)
Very non-formal behavioral questions. No questions regarded this specific job. Had no idea how to interpret their attitude. Acted not sincere or cared one bit. Felt like the position was filled and was a part of due process for interviewing.
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The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer at Sears
Posted May 5, 2011
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Hoffman Est, IL (took a day)
Spoke with Sears by phone. The technical person left early, apparently because he felt insecure. That left me to speak with the business manager who was friendly at least. However the post interview feedback was delayed and super passive aggressive. Apparently in describing open source work I'd done, the "architect" stated that I said I "knew more than him". That's reading too much into facts I was stating regarding the technology, which is so new that no one can really be a complete "expert".
Being passive aggressive on an interview doesn't look good, and means it's not a good place to work.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Internal Project Consultant (Non-IT) at Sears
Posted Apr 28, 2011 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2010 in Hoffman Estates, IL (took 4+ weeks)
I was initially contacted by the recruiter (from resume posted on Career Builder) about a position which I did not end up pursuing. About a week after I turned that opportunity down, the recruiter reached out to me about this position. I spoke with the recruiter over the phone to get more details and decided to proceed with the interview process. I did not have a phone interview, so the on-site interview was my first time speaking with the hiring manager. It took a couple weeks after I accepted the interview to get our schedules coordinated for me to come in. The interview consisted of three 1:1 interviews. The first two were with my would-be peers and lasted roughly 30 minutes each. They each gave me a brief background of their careers and then we went through my resume and discussed past experience/projects. It was very relaxed and conversational based; they weren't taking any notes. The third interview was about an hour long and was with the hiring manager. This was more of a behavioral style interview. I was asked the "Tell me about a time when..." and "What would you do in this situation..." type of questions. It was more formal and the interviewer was taking notes as I was speaking. Overall, the interview was fairly relaxed and it ended with a description of what the onboarding process looked like if I were to be hired and the inintial training that would be involved. I ended up receiving an offer the next day.
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Negotiation Details
I asked for about a 10% salary increase over their initial offer and an additional week of vacation. They came back with a 5% increase and the vacation. I accepted.
Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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