Sainsburys Assessment Tests

Careers at Sainsburys

Sainsbury’s Central Leaders Graduate Scheme is a structured and rigorous development programme that explores every aspect of business leadership. The programme starts with an induction where you’ll meet and get to know our other graduates but also hear from our business leaders, be introduced to your development programme and Sainsbury’s vision and values. After that the programme sees you undertake four six month placements, which could be anywhere across the business. Sainsbury’s promises to deliver challenging placements that will continue to offer you stretch and development.

Sainsburys Aptitude Tests

Sainsburys Situational Judgement Tests

The SJT are completed first in the application process. These psychometric tests present the reader with a series of scenarios that would potentially take place in the work place and the reader is then asked to choose from a multiple choice set of answers for how they would best deal with the situation. Ensure you are familiar with company values.

Sainsburys Numerical Reasoning Tests

These tests are designed to measure your numerical abilities and relate to graphs, percentages and tables whereby you will be asked to analyse data and chose from a set of multiple choice answers. These are usually times so practicing within a time limit is advisable. It usually equates to a minute per question.

Sainsburys Verbal Reasoning Tests

The verbal reasoning test comprises of a series of paragraphs which you will be required to read and then answer questions. Your options will be True, False or Cannot Tell. This test will be assessing your analytical skills as well as your comprehension and grammar. Again, these will be timed and so you need to ensure you can leave enough time to read through properly before answering questions.

Sainsburys Personality Test

This is like the SJTs and is likely to be asked depending on the role you are applying for. You will be given various scenarios and will be asked to rank your answers. This is designed to see how you fit into the organisation.

Sainsburys Presentation

You’ll be topic or case study in which you’ll be asked to prepare a presentation on, to be given in front of one of the assessors. You will then be required to answer questions in order to demonstrate your knowledge of the company and how you would work under pressure. Your presentation and analytical skills will also be tested. It’s important to have a good background knowledge of the organisation beforehand.

Sainsburys Role Play

You may be asked to participate in a role play exercise. This will be based on a scenario provided and you will be assessed on your behaviour, your knowledge and the way you handle certain scenarios. It will be relating to a type of situation that you would be faced with in the job and might be with a customer or a colleague; you will be briefed on the day.

Sainsburys Group Exercise

You may be required to participate in group work. This is designed to test your people skills and how you work within a group. You will be required work within the team and process a lot of information given. The tasks will vary so ensure that you have a lot of background knowledge about the company. You will be assessed not just on your ideas but also on how you interact and work within a team.