One of the UK's leading food retailers and top graduate employers, Waitrose, has launched a new online tool to enable them to identify high quality graduate applicants for their food job vacancies. Waitrose receives thousands of applications every year, and it is hoped that this new online test will make the recruitment process much easier and more efficient for both graduates and the company.
Alongside their existing recruitment procedures, Waitrose will now be using an online Situational Judgement Test, which will assess judgement and decision-making skills in commonplace work scenarios. 150 applicants who score highly on this test will then be sent through to the company's Graduate Selection Centres, where employees of the highest calibre will then be placed into store-based retail management roles.
The new process comes as a response in the recruitment market, where a larger number of applicants than ever before are competing for food jobs, and Waitrose hopes that the new selection tool will be efficient enough to address this challenge.
Most importantly, Waitrose bosses are aiming to find future employees who are committed to a retail or food job as a career, rather than those who will settle for any form of employment. Once they have found these dedicated applicants, they then hope to fit those with the best possible skills into the most appropriate available roles.
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