In November 2011 I applied online (Target.com) to work at Target mainly doing overnight stock work. I think it took about a week after applying before they called me to set up an interview. I showed up to the interview, the first interview was with a man named Brandon and it was pretty basic (why are you here, tell me about a time, yada yada yada). He said I did great and would see if the main manager was available for my next interview. Instead of setting up a second interview at a later time, I was able to have it right after the first. The second interview was somewhat of a recap of the first one, the manager said because my main position was overnight I would get a $1 pay bump but because I was being hired a week or two before Black Friday, I'd have to cashier a little while, "everyone cashiers on Black Friday" he said. I said that was fine as I had a little experience doing cashier work. He asked about my experience relating to the Flow position and I said I had help stock stores before-I helped put together and "build" the Halloween store that was about 2 minutes away during the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons, so I was used to heavy lifting and such. He mentioned if I wanted I could do also work on the Plan-O-Gram team but I declined. He did ask a somewhat generic question "was I a target shopper" and I said "yes sir, this shirt is Merona", I thought wearing a dress shirt of theirs would score me extra points, he complimented my shirt and said he liked the brand. He asked what I was looking for-seasonal work or career-and I said career; "I want to get up every morning and be proud to put that red shirt on", I said, I know that sounds cheesy but I suck at interviews.
After the second interview was over I met with who I assumed was the HR woman. She had me sign a "Conditional Job Offer Addendum" and then I was told where to go to take my drug test and that I had to have it done before 5:00pm that day.
I didn't show up to my first orientation but they called me back for a second orientation. I showed up for that one, spent about an hour or so watching a videos, discussing working there, did a store walk-through and paired me off with two people to work on the registers. I worked with a guy that was about 17 years old first and then a 21 year old woman.