I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Target (Trotwood, OH) in Aug 2012
Interview
There were 2 interviews. The first was a phone interview and I did very well on it. The second interview was an on-site interview. Basically, all of their questions involved leadership, so try to play that up as much as possible. Also, I'd recommend reading their description of the job and reusing a lot of their phrasing. For example, they talked about "trusted-health care professional" in mine, so I gave a story about one of my experiences as an intern with a pharmacist who had the wrong approach. Another important thing would be to keep in mind that they love the situational questions and want a specific example from your past as an answer. This can be a little bit of a difficult task if you don't know the question ahead of time, so study up on here and other sites about specific questions they ask.
A huge point for me that I kind of messed up on was that I was never interviewed by a pharmacist. Both interviews were with the "business" side of things at Target and not pharmacists themselves. I had only been interviewed by residencies before this interview, so this kind of threw me off a little bit since you want to brag less about a specific situation in pharmacy were you did something smart (since they won't know if what you did was smart or not) and brag more about your assets to a business (leadership, work ethic, etc). So adjust your speeches and situational questions to talk like you would to a patient rather than to a health care professional.
Ultimately, I stumbled on finding a good situation for one of their questions to match their "specific situation" format and think that was the reason I didn't get an offer. But as to not scare anyone, I feel like if I interviewed at another Target and knowing what I know now about their interview process, I could definately get a spot. So hopefully this helps you out in what to expect. Just prepare a ton an search for all of the possible situational questions you could get before both interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about a time where you made a mistake and had to take responsibility for it.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Target (New York, NY)
Interview
Interviewed with HR and Management. Common interview questions, some behavioral but all in all not too difficult, mostly skills assessment, how soon can I start. Accepted offer within one month.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example of how you would handle a difficult customer.
interview with the store manager and lead tech. roughly 30 minutes each. They have a list of behavioral interview questions. questions like, who is right in this situation (there's no right or wrong answer, just to see your personality)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
name a time you made a mistake and what you did afterwards
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Target
Interview
Set up an initial interview at campus career fair. Was then contacted by district manager for a phone interview about a week later, and then regional manager for final phone interview a week after that. Phone interviews took around 20 minutes and used the STAR based behavioral questions. All three employees I interacted with were very friendly and informative throughout the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
STAR based behavioral questions (Tell me about a time when...)