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Updated May 11, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Stores Executive Intern at Target
Posted May 11, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 5 weeks)
I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter the next day via email. We set up a phone interview where she asked me some basic behavioral questions. The next round was also a phone interview since I was out of the country-- everyone was very accommodating. This interview was with a Human Resources representative and it was five questions. This went well, and I was told the last round would be with the District Leader for the area in which I wanted to work. Again, all behavioral questions. This position is a training to be come a Store Executive, and I was told that Target expects to offer that position after the internship. When it came out during my last interview that I still have two more years of school before graduation, the process came to a grinding halt. But overall, the interview experience was a positive one, everyone I talked to seemed excited about their jobs and this job, and I would apply again in the future.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Executive Store Intern at Target
Posted Mar 16, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in College Park, MD (took 1 week)
The interview process started with a brief personality test that was sent to me via e-mail when they confirmed my phone interview slot. They asked for me to fill this out prior to my phone screen. The phone screen from the HR recruiter happened about a week after the initial contact. She asked basic behavioral questions such as "Tell me about a time when you took on a leadership role" or "Tell me about a time when you had to deal with confrontation". Very basic questions. Target seeks for leadership capabilities and asks questions to highlight those skills.
I was then asked to meet with the District Manager who asked me a lot of the same behavioral questions but also more about my future plans etc. This is where they really wanted to see a passion to grow with Target.
Everyone during the interview process was very nice which made the process enjoyable.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Store Executive Intern at Target
Posted Mar 7, 2012
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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 Feb 2012 (took 3 weeks)
First step is an initial 1:1 interview either in-person or over the phone (5 questions). Got emailed saying I could move on in the process. Second step was an in-person, in-store interview with a district team leader and HR person, or a couple of store team leaders (5 questions that were pretty much identical to the first interview). Got called the next day by an HR staffing specialist from the Minneapolis HQ asking to set up a final phone interview with a higher-up HR member. This interview consisted of a few basic questions (why Target, tell me about you, strengths/opportunities) and just two situational questions that were a little bit more challenging, but not that much harder than the first two interviews. I got called later in the day by my campus recruiter saying that they wanted to extend an offer to me and that I had 24 hours to go do the pre-employment drug screening test.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Store Executive Intern at Target
Posted Oct 19, 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 Oct 2011 (took a day)
It was very systematic. Other interviews have been more of a conversation whereas with Target just read straight from their list of questions. Can't say I was very impressed. I felt like they weren't really listening to what I had to say, just reading and recording.
Other than that the questions were pretty straight forward. Why do you want to work at Target? Tell me about a time when you did something wrong and how you fixed it? Behavioral questions like that were of the norm.
One thing to look out for is that they will ask after every question what it is that you learned from that experience.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Executive Store Intern at Target
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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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 2011 in Brea, CA (took 2 days)
Normal internship interview: one interview with a store leader and another with a district leader on a different day
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Negotiation Details
No negotiation: all interns got paid $14.00 an hour.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Stores Executive Intern at Target
Posted Nov 29, 2010
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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 May 2008 in Lake Worth, FL (took 2+ weeks)
I applied to this job through the university career center and was contacted pretty quickly, less than 1 week. There were multiple interview rounds, 3 of which were structured interviews of at least 30 minutes. Each interview was lead by a different HR contact and each asked more specific behavioral questions as the process continued.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Executive Store Intern at Target
Posted Mar 4, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2009 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Targets phone interview was a typical behavioral interview. They asked you everything from name a time where you had a situation in class and how did you over come that? Did a group member ever slack or not pull his/her share of the weight and how did you attend to that situation? What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Then you either get offered a day long interview or you are asked to take a behavioral/personality test which is 200 questions long.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Store Executive Intern at Target
Posted Feb 11, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2010 (took 5 days)
Very scripted... directly followed a set of interviews with no deviations that I could see. Followed somewhat of a good cop/bad cop routine. One interviewer seemed to want to get to know me while the other simply jotted down notes. The questions consisted mainly of behavioral/situational scenarios, i.e. "When was the last time you mentored somebody, and what was the result?"
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Store Executive Intern at Target
Posted Jan 10, 2010
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 2 weeks)
Received initial interview through recruiting event on campus.
Interview one: Me + two others. Pretty relaxed environment, basic behavioral questions.
Interview two: Me + two others again. Much more serious, more difficult questions. Still all behavioral, just had to think a lot harder.
Intelligence Test: Pretty difficult, a lot of Math.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Store Executive Intern at Target
Posted Jan 3, 2010
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2009 in Fresno, CA (took 4+ weeks)
Went through my college recruiter for this internship. I had to speak with the campus recruiter and then submit an online application. It took about 3 weeks just to get a call from HR. Over the phone I was asked to (1) describe myself (2) leadership experiences (3) why I want to work there (4) how would my coworkers describe me. Took about 10 mins. Then was emailed the online assessment to take. It took about an hour to complete. Started off with easy situational questions that I breezed through but the other half were math questions. Similar to those found on the SAT's. They were challenging I have to admit and most were repetitive but just worded differently. Once it was completed I was to call HR back which after was the frustrating part. Because every time I called I just got the voice mail. I gave up and waited a couple of days hoping to reach them and got the voice mail again. Then within 15 mins a different person called me. All they said was that they wanted to schedule an interview with the store manager(s) at their district office which, is where I am at now. I have the interview this week and from what I've read it'll be a lot of the situational questions.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Skills Test.
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