nataliesfh
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Hey everyone, i'm new here so I hope I posted this in the right place.
I had an interview with a MAC counter at Macy's three days ago and thought I should let anyone interested know how it went.
I arrived ten minutes early, introduced myself and let one of the MA's know I had an interview. Turns out she was the manager who was interviewing me so she took me into the backroom. She asked me if I had anything for her and I did, so I handed her my portfolio and she looked at it for quite a while, like she spent time examining each picture not just flipping through them. She told me she was impressed because no one brings a portfolio with them. After that she asked me about three sales questions, like a customer comes in wanting studio fix powder, what do you do? And what would you do if there were two customers waiting to be helped and you're the only one at the counter while the lead artists are in the back talking. She also asked me what I would do if another employee started complaining about having long hours.
She asked me to rate myself on a scale of 1-10 and explain why for questions such as how trendy I am, how important punctuality and customer service is to me, my makeup skills, my image.
Some other questions she asked were what I was wearing(makeup wise), what I knew about MAC, why I wanted to work for MAC, how long i planned to stay with the company, how many hours i could work, what was my favorite MAC product, if I felt comfortable wearing different looks for new collections, then the rest were just basic interview questions. Last thing he said was that she would call me in about a week to let me know if I got the job or not and asked me if I had any questions.
My interview was actually really short, maybe 10 minutes tops. Everyone looked really busy restocking and taking off displays/setting up new ones. I made sure to wear all black and used only MAC products that day.
I read on here that MAC requires employees to wear at least three eye shadows and lip products, so I made sure to do that plus a few more shadows haha.
I had a single interview, there wasn't anyone else waiting to be interviewed when I got there. It seems like they were definitely looking for someone with flexible hours, who is trendy, outgoing, and already uses a ton of MAC products. The manager was extremely friendly and laid back also.
So that's pretty much it, I was lucky enough to get the interview in the first place considering I JUST turned 18 in July(and you need to be at least 18 to work there) and another MA who see's me a lot referred me because she thought I did great makeup.
Hope this helps someone : )
I had an interview with a MAC counter at Macy's three days ago and thought I should let anyone interested know how it went.
I arrived ten minutes early, introduced myself and let one of the MA's know I had an interview. Turns out she was the manager who was interviewing me so she took me into the backroom. She asked me if I had anything for her and I did, so I handed her my portfolio and she looked at it for quite a while, like she spent time examining each picture not just flipping through them. She told me she was impressed because no one brings a portfolio with them. After that she asked me about three sales questions, like a customer comes in wanting studio fix powder, what do you do? And what would you do if there were two customers waiting to be helped and you're the only one at the counter while the lead artists are in the back talking. She also asked me what I would do if another employee started complaining about having long hours.
She asked me to rate myself on a scale of 1-10 and explain why for questions such as how trendy I am, how important punctuality and customer service is to me, my makeup skills, my image.
Some other questions she asked were what I was wearing(makeup wise), what I knew about MAC, why I wanted to work for MAC, how long i planned to stay with the company, how many hours i could work, what was my favorite MAC product, if I felt comfortable wearing different looks for new collections, then the rest were just basic interview questions. Last thing he said was that she would call me in about a week to let me know if I got the job or not and asked me if I had any questions.
My interview was actually really short, maybe 10 minutes tops. Everyone looked really busy restocking and taking off displays/setting up new ones. I made sure to wear all black and used only MAC products that day.
I read on here that MAC requires employees to wear at least three eye shadows and lip products, so I made sure to do that plus a few more shadows haha.
I had a single interview, there wasn't anyone else waiting to be interviewed when I got there. It seems like they were definitely looking for someone with flexible hours, who is trendy, outgoing, and already uses a ton of MAC products. The manager was extremely friendly and laid back also.
So that's pretty much it, I was lucky enough to get the interview in the first place considering I JUST turned 18 in July(and you need to be at least 18 to work there) and another MA who see's me a lot referred me because she thought I did great makeup.
Hope this helps someone : )