Interview Guidance

Interviews are a fantastic way for us as an employer to understand and learn about you as a potential employee and colleague. We want to understand your motivation for joining Harrods, the expertise you have within your chosen field and how you could excel with us.

It's a two way street. We’re evaluating you, as much as you’re evaluating us so please come armed with questions of your own about what we can offer you as a potential employer.

To ensure that we recruit people who will thrive and flourish at Harrods, we use a strength- based approach to hiring.

A Strengths-based interview seeks to understand both if you can do something, and if you enjoy it. This interview style tells us if you enjoys certain tasks or elements of your role, so we can match you to a position that suits you best. This approach also provides more innovative, realistic experiences for our candidates. This gives you more opportunity to show yourselves at your best and understand more about how you will fit the role.

If you are familiar with a competency-based interview, it will be a very different experience.

Traditional competency-based recruitment rests on your providing examples from your past experiences. However, when it comes to strengths, we’re assessing for potential, allowing us to hire candidates from all kinds of wonderful backgrounds, with our focus being how your behaviours and beliefs align with our own Harrods Values.