ok so google isn't helping me. I floundered at this question yesterday:
'what would you say are good procedures when raising purchase orders?' WHAT?!
does anyone know?! I feel like I'll need to answer this question again very soon.
other than that son of a bitch at the end I was doing fine. anyone else have any interview/question traumas?
Maybe something about
leaving an audit trail?
(Possibly the most depressing answer to a question ever)
that's kind of what I blabbed about
actually I don't know if I did, my mind was in too much of a panic freeze whilst concentrating on keeping my face looking knowledgeable so they wouldn't listen to my word vomit.
mean girls reference
good work.
:D
i need to watch that now.
the best interview question i had was for art college where they asked 'what are your top 5 films?'
???
exactly.
When an order is made
having paperwork etc, so if something bodges up you've got proof n that..
put the date on it.
I reckon it was a trick question.
Probably set up for you to say something witty.
What?
Like "I'll raise your purchase order"?
exactly
no way would she not get the job then.
that was my first thought
damn.
I failed there too then.
Make
sure the product / service description is accurate, make sure the price is accurate, try and attach order cofirmations from the supplier as backup, make sure they're authorised by the correct signatory..
...
oh and
make sure the supplier has knows to quote the order number on their invoice.
thank you thank you!!
now I feel like less of an idiot as I did know this...damn mind panic mode
good luck
:)
that's all the kind of things I said
but they didn't seem to like that answer. I asked if I'd misunderstood the question and she just read it out again, but slowly. yeah, great.
Go back
and kill them all. It's the only way to put your mind at rest. I hate gittish interviewers.
Agreed
they're clearly shitbags and probably not the kind of people it'd be fun working for.
check that no-one's done it already?
put the right codes on it?
I've got an interview soon about something I know very little about, eep!
seriously
do your research!! unless you're really good at blabbing in an informed manner.
will do!
I'm trying to figure out exactly what the company actually does at the moment, that's a start...
Haha
sounds like an exciting job..
Is it domestic or FOB?
Look at the number of weeks stock cover in DC and stores and %ge availability so you can work out how much you need to order.
How much money have you got to invest in the purchase order - this is 'open to buy'. You can't spend more than you have.
What's the DC capacity, what's the intake availability, at Christmas DC's are crammed and stock is coming in all the time.
And if you're tight on money or DC capacity break down the products your ordering by priority - out of stocks, imminent promotions, top 20 lines.
Good luck!
ummmn...what's DC
crap.
the rest of the job is really interesting, there's just a finance part to it too.
The DC is the distribution centre
or you could just call it a warehouse.
aha
thank you!! this is stuff I kind of knew but didn't know how to say it, and alot of it seems obvious too, I never know how to literally to take interview questions
Checking supplier details
Apart from that I would just go with the audit trail thing.
You weren't going for a grad job at BAE were you?
My Mum was interviewing people all day yesterday. She said some people were rubbish.
no!!
that could've been awkward...
It'd have been amusing.
I'm slightly disappointed at the lack of coincidence. :(
does she want to interview me?
Um, if you're good at programming
she might?
is that one of her interview questions?
you're trying to trick me, aren't you?
Yes. I am actually just planning
for my Mum to kidnap you, so that I can have you when I'm 'grown up'.
how long away is that?
um, about 2 years and 4 months I'd say
inevitable interview question:
Q: "what would you say is your biggest weakness in somekind of work capacity?"
A: "WILLY!!!"
Bladder issues eh ralph?
"I'm sorry, we're going to have to ban wanking in the workplace"
"I've got my rights!"
OK Mark, very good, moving on
Q: "In light of the forthcoming Bassle 2 and MiFiD ammendments that should be in effect by the bk end of this year, what impact do you think this will have on trade reporting within the pan european markets?"
pause, nod head suggestively
A: "BOTTY!!!!!!"
I had an interview
on Monday, I was late and when I got there he talked me through the role and I realised it was a grade higher than I'd intended to apply for. Oops. Don't think I got it :)
Was good practice though, he grilled me so now I feel ready for the next one.
worst question
i ever had was, 'name a time in your life when you have done something wrong and how did you deal with it'
it was so general and i wasnt expecting it and it had nothing to do with the job and it was hard to say something good without making myself sound liek a spaz!
I
got asked "Describe a time where you have been especially helpful to a customer" to which i made up a story about helping a disabled person sort and buy their clothes :S
i dont know why i did it; i felt proper bad afterwards:/
hahaha!
I'd like to have interviewed you, I love it when you can tell someone's telling a lie and then you drill down into it and they get all confused :)
I nearly had to make up something
but then remembered a true life experience that saved me.
don't feel so bad, I had a friend who lied in an interview before and said she'd looked after shizophrenics in a hospital in Sudan.
She didn't get the job.
I always lie constantly
in interview with those, give me a situation where you...... questions because unless your getting interviewed by Jean Claude Van Damme in Timecop they aint gonna disprove shit.