Anyone's teenager had an interview with Sainsburys?

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Ds17 filled in their online form earlier this week, just details of his name, age. Nothing about him or his (lack of) experience.
Now he's been invited to an in person interview on Saturday.

But they don't know anything about him. Does anyone know if it's an individual thing or a group workshop type interview?

What should he wear?

Should he take a cv?

Its all so quick and random and his anxiety levels are through the roof.

Maybe they're so desperate for staff they're interviewing dozens of people all at once?

Get him to look on glassdoor for advice

You don't sound like you have much faith in him, maybe that's where his anxiety is coming from.

Is he friendly positive confident personable able to take instructions & complete training. Be happy to help and have No back issues. He’ll be fine. I worked there in my teens/20s, you can’t “train” a good positive attitude but everything else you can be trained for. I stacked shelves & did the checkout.

We're all thrown by him being invited for an interview so quickly.

We assumed they would send him an application form or ask him to submit a cv, not just his name, date of birth and whether or not he can lift heavy boxes.

We're writing him a cv right now!

Aha yes Sainsburys is pretty quick to go from form to interview! I worked there for a year online shopping until last May. No I don’t think I remember them needing a cv, just wear vaguely smart clothes. If I remember they ask a few questions and as long as your are positive, say you’re good at communicating and pretty quick (if it’s a shopping job) then they will offer it to you. They will ask why you want to work there and I remember saying it’s because I like shopping lol.

Interview is usually a one person thing and then if they pffer it to you they will ask you in for a training session (there was one other person in mine) and then you get started etc.