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I am a college stunedt and together with 3 other friends we applied for various retail position in our local store(s), there are four of them in my city. We all have different background and experiences and hope that it would be nice if we could work together. So I applied via their website, few weeks later we all got invitation to the hiring event at a high-end hotel conf. room. We registered in the same time slot as well. We told each other that we can’t let the apple staff know we are friends so 2 of us sat on the same table the other two on another table themselves. The hiring event was pretty much what other posters described room of 20ish people, group in each table. There were 5 Apple staff and some of them look really friendly and ONE particular lady was all dressed up and she told us she’s the HR manager. Here was a brief description of the event First, after the introduction of the staffs, the host paired u up with another member in your table. U (both u and your partner) have 5 minutes to ask for his/her info + why Apple + fun fact. 5 minutes for sure not gonna be enough for both of you, you have pretty much 2 mins to answer and 2 mins to give them your answer. Remember it was 5 minutes for both of you. Some poster said it is very important to choose who to sit with, it is somewhat true.. but in the end it won’t matter. I’ll explain later. Tips: be the one who ask the question first, quickly get the answer and quickly give the yours. After 5 minutes up, you are asked to introduce your partner. Try to be the first one to raise your hand but DON’T go crazy like highschool kids. When you introduce your partner, just speak calm, clear and you don’t have to impress them with fancy vocabs. Then the host showed us a video. In the video we were shown some sales figures, # of stores in the World and how excited people were doing business with Apple. After the video, the host asked us a lot of question. He picked about 3 or 4 people who raised their hands to answer the question. Don’t worry, if you don’t get pick, wait for another question. Tips: Answer the question correctly, suck up Apple product won’t work. They are looking for people who is smart, polite and can make quick decision. Next is group activity you are presented a customer service scenario and your group needed to present the solution. You have roughly 5 minutes to figure it out. In the mean time those Apple staff worked around w/ iPad and evaluate each of you. Tips: I have no idea, but try to take part in the presentation, you don’t want ONE guy take all the spot light and make sure you listen to other members too. Once again, keep your speech short, and give other chances to shine too. Then we watched another video and followed by another Q&A section. Just remember they are looking for answer that nail the point, nothing over the top. Saying Apple’s customer service is great doesn’t tell them anything. Saying Apple RESPECT their customers will do the job. Key word, look for the key word.The final activity is FAQ section. Make sure you asked some intelligent question ie no how much I get paid or how much discount I get . After that, we filled out a form of our info and availability and you are good to go.I can tell you that.. you don’t need to prepare for this event. All you need is LUCK. That’s all.. if they like you, they will let u thru, doesn’t matter what your background, experience is.. Coz they don’t ask nor check. They don’t like people show off too much (ie over the top answer, suck up too much or waive your hand like a kid wants ice cream), they don’t like people too shy or not speak at all. So it is hard to choose the balance point. Remember that they have over 100 candidates to choose from to fill like 5 or 6 positions. All you need is LUCK.. that’s all. Of course, dress properly, smile a lot and show them you are good at interacting with people and hope that they like you. Other than that.. that’s nothing much you can do. Your performance during the event is somewhat necessary but not sufficient enough for them to put you to 2nd round. After 2 days, all three of my friends and I got the rejected letter. We all did really well and our background and experience are clearly good enough for any retail position. One of us is an artist, experienced Mac user, the other works at best buy for many years as geek squad, another of my friend has tons of technical experiences including repairing laptop for Dell. I have the weakest resume out of all 4 but I still think I did pretty good. At the end of the day, the Apple employees are some what cocky, coz they think they are the 1% out of a million people applied and got the job . So, good luck everyone and just stay calm, be yourself and hope for the best. Apple is a great company to work for, but it is not the end of the world if you dun get the job.