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[poolger]

My daughter has to go to an Asda magic session for an admin job she applied for. Can anyone tell me what this is, what it involves etc. She is quite shy and nervous but she wants to come across well.

[kamojo]

I found this which may be helpfull to you its a guy whose done the course.

For the first actuvity we were all dealt a card with a number on and the idea was we were to hold our numbers up but not look at our own and then by talking to each other to seat our selves in numerical order round the table, we managed this in 70 secs. We were then shown a 10 min video about Asda's business plan and the benefits of working for them.

We were then paired up, and had to find out 3 things about our partner; their name, why they want to work for asda and which cartoon character would they be and why? He asked who wanted to go first, there was a few seconds of silence and then I thought i'd make the first move as it looks good.

For their next trick we were put into groups and our task was to build a house of cards, we first had to come up with a team name (we were The Aces) and also how many layers we were planning to achieve. They then gave us a pack of asda magic cards and 5 mins to build, close to the end of the 5 mins they changed the brief and then after another 5 mins they changed it again. The idea being to show us that the business world is a continuingly changing place; it was all good fun, even though one of my group hadn't really got a clue about building card houses, did I have a mispent youth or something?

They then gave us all a retail questionnaire to fill in, first 5 questions were about the company etc, then there was a set on simple checkout stuff like 'An item cost �2.05, how much change from �10?', then a section on best before end dates, one on being able to spot mistakes in numbers and codes, and finally one on being able to read nutritional info on things. It was a very easy test .

[poolger]

Thanks thats helpful. IMO it is a bit of a weird thing to base a session/interview on magic, what this has to do with an admin job I dont know.

[Dusty Bin]

It's just a typical Asda gimmicky name for something essentially routine, ie a testing process.

Eg. if a member of their staff wants to go for a management position they have to attend their Olympics sessions to assess if they're cut out for it.

Tell your daughter not to worry about it. As long as she's got a brain and a positive attitude she should get the job.