So I had a job interview with Toys R Us yesterday.
First off, I like the new Polaris location. It was a lot easier to get to then I thought it would be and the store, from what I saw, looks really nice. It’s technically a TRU and a Babies R Us and most of our time was spent on the BRU side, but I did have a little opportunity to glace and the TRU side (Big Star Wars display!) and it’s pretty cool. It’s very big and … well, not ghetto, so it’s already a huge improvement over the Morris Rd location.
I think the interview mostly went okay. It started off as a big group interview. There were six of us in all. In our first activity, the guy interviewing us passed around a role of toilet paper and told us to imagine we were going on a camping trip and to take however much TP we would want for the trip. Once we all had our sheets, we were told to separate each square and to write one fact about ourselves on each one. Thankfully, after a few minutes, the guy told us we were good. After sharing our facts, we were split into two teams and each team had to complete a 100-piece puzzle together. My team won, but we all agreed that we had the easier puzzle. (Ours was a very clear puzzle of Kung-Fu Panda while the other team had a very detailed picture of a cat on all these clouds.) Then, in the same teams, we had to build something out of Legos and then make a sales pitch for it. We built a boat car that ran on segue technology. The other team tried to do a weird truck, advertisement thing, but they weren’t able to finish. In all fairness, though, they made a pretty good sales pitch. After that, we were all split up and we had our individual interviews. That mostly went okay. There was one question I would have answered differently in hindsight (The classic “What’s your greatest weakness?” I think I may have been a little too honest.), but hopefully it didn’t trip me up too much. All and all, though, it was very friendly and conversational, which I think was a plus. It came up at one point that I do the Star Wars costuming and the guy mentioned that he “saw a few of those guys” at the Autism walk the day before. (TRU was a sponsor.) He seemed pretty impressed when I told him I was one of them.
All and all, I think it went okay. I can’t help but be a little paranoid about it. I know I was offered the job the last time I applied at TRU, but the competition seemed a lot better this time around. I’m a little nervous that I might not have stood out during the group portion. And, like I said, I probably could have done a little better on a few questions during the individual portion. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Even if it doesn’t work out, though, it’s no big deal. In fact, as I was walking out, I got a message from Jon saying they’re apparently desperate to fill positions at the Zoo. (Hey, man, I meant to call you back, but thanks for the heads up.) I’m sure I’ll find where I belong soon enough.
