Cashier
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
Top activities and tasks for this job:
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
- Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
- Compute and record totals of transactions.
- Help customers find the location of products.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
About the test (Full Version)
The HR Avatar Cashier Pre-Employment Assessment was designed to help you hire staff in this role. The test provides a whole-person evaluation by measuring job-relevant cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, skills, and relevant behavioral history.
Each component provides important data for hiring decisions. Cognitive ability has been linked to overall job performance in most jobs and correlates with a candidate's
ability to learn new skills and to solve complex problems. Personality characteristics determine how well the candidate will fit-in with a corporate culture. Knowledge and skills indicate how much training will be needed before a new employee becomes productive. Finally, relevant behavioral history detects counter-productive behaviors that can impact job performance.
The Cashier test includes an animated work simulation in which candidates meet customers, colleagues and supervisors in a job-related context. Post-test surveys indicate the majority of candidates react favorably to these simulations.
The specific attributes measured include:
Cognitive Ability
- Analytical Thinking and Attention to Detail
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Behavioral History
- History Survey - Performance
- History Survey - Tenure
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Personality
- Adaptability
- Customer Service Mindset
- Drive
- Integrity
- Resilience
- Teamwork
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Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy and Emotional Self-Control
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Following completion, the test produces a Candidate Selection Report that includes an overall score and detailed scores for each attribute. The overall score weighs each of the factors based on research and analysis from the U.S. Government's Occupational Information Network (O*Net). O*Net represents over a decade of dedicated research evaluating the relative importance of various factors that lead to success in almost 1,000 different job roles.
The Candidate Selection Report also provides expert interview questions that help you probe critical or low-scoring areas, along with a guide for noting your evaluation of the candidate's responses. Consistent use of an interview guide is an important part of gaining better candidate insights and making better hiring decisions.
More information about this Job
| Annual US Wages (2020) |
| Bottom 10%: | | $18,850 or less |
| Bottom 25%: | | $21,310 or less |
| Median: | | $25,020 (Average) |
| Top 25%: | | $28,840 or more |
| Top 10%: | | $32,630 or more |
| Hourly US Wages (2020) |
| Bottom 10%: | | $9.06 or less |
| Bottom 25%: | | $10.25 or less |
| Median: | | $12.03 (Average) |
| Top 25%: | | $13.86 or more |
| Top 10%: | | $15.69 or more |
| US Employment Statistics |
| 2020: | | 3,379,100 |
| 2030 (projected): | | 3,042,700 |
| Annual U.S. Job Openings: | 546,900 |
Top Knowledge Requirements
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- Administration and Management
- Clerical
- Sales and Marketing
- English Language
- Personnel and Human Resources
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Top Skills
- Service Orientation
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Mathematics
- Social Perceptiveness
- Reading Comprehension
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
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Top Abilities
- Oral Expression
- Oral Comprehension
- Near Vision
- Written Comprehension
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Clarity
- Selective Attention
- Number Facility
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| Education Requirements |
| No High School Diploma: | | 30% |
| High School Diploma: | | 68% |
| This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role who have their highest education in each category. |
| Related Work Experience Requirements |
| None: | | 52% |
| Less than 1 Month: | | 9% |
| 1 - 3 Months: | | 18% |
| 6 Months - 1 Year: | | 17% |
| This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role whose related work experience before they entered this position falls into each category. |
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