I responded to a post on Craigslist where they were looking for sales associates for a pop-up store in Soho. I wrote a letter explaining why I wanted to work for them (my interest and knowledge in street art and artists; they are a shoe store that uses artists from around the world to design their shoes), and attached my resume. I received an email the next day with interest. The women wanted to schedule a phone interview the same day. I told her I was available anytime after 7pm, she did not call (this was a Friday). She then emailed me again on Monday, apologizing and wanted to schedule a phone interview on Tuesday in the morning and to give her a window of time. I said yes and that 11am - 12pm would be great. At 11:58 I believe, I received a call from Iowa (??, must've been their human resources department, perhaps? The company is based in Chicago though). I picked up and it was a different woman, can't recall her name but she started off asking me questions. I was more nervous having a phone interview than actual in person interviews so needless to say my answers were probably ridiculous. The questions I can remember her asking were,
-Tell me about yourself
-What words would you use to describe yourself?
-What interested you in Bucketfeet?
-Can you explain a time where you had a difficult situation with a customer and how you dealt with that?
-What would you tell someone who walked into the store about the Bucketfeet company?
-How would you convince someone to buy a pair of shoes? What makes Bucketfeet special?
-Why do you want to work for Bucketfeet?
She had a few more questions that I can't recall now, but a lot of the questions were redundant and I was super nervous as this was my first phone interview. Unfortunately I didn't get the position, but if she was interested further I would have attended a round 2 of group interviews that would take place 2 days after the initial phone interview.