Ace the CVS Virtual Job Tryout with Free Examples and Tips [2024]

The CVS VJT is a challenging assessment of your professional traits and cognitive abilities. It includes five parts, each providing CVS with insights into central aspects of you as a candidate – some examine how you function in typical work scenarios, while others evaluate professional skills.

The five sections of the CVS Virtual Job Tryout are:

• Work with Customers & Colleagues (Situational Judgement Test)
• What Drives You
• Tell Us Your Story
• Describe Your Approach
• Ensure Quality

Pharmacy technicians will be presented will be presented with another section, “Fill Prescriptions.”  Let’s dive in deeper and examine a question from each section, including CVS virtual job tryout answers that will give you an idea of what you’re facing. 

In the first step of the VJT you will be given a common daily situation which you could face while working in a CVS pharmacy. For each situation you will be given four possible courses of action, and will need to choose your most likely and least likely action.

The aim of these questions, called a situational judgement test (SJT), is to identify certain traits in candidates - similarly to a personality test. Let's take a look at a sample question:

In this section of the VJT your attention to detail and accuracy will be tested. You will be shown a customer’s prescription details and next to it a picture of a bottle of medication, and then be asked to identify any discrepancies between the two.

In a pharmacy there is no room for error, so even though the questions themselves might not seem particularly challenging at first, keep in mind that the smallest oversight could be costly and completing 13 of these questions perfectly under the pressure of an exam can be challenging.

Try this sample question:

This section allows CVS to learn about what motivates you, and your preferred work environment. You will be shown a series of paired statements and then you will be asked to click on the statement that best describes your ideal job.

To pass this section, it helps to understand CVS’ organizational culture, and the emphasis they put on intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation for work. Let’s take a look at a sample question, and what kind of answer CVS are looking for:

In this biodata section, you will be asked to answer questions regarding your work experience, personal traits, and skills. While you should of course answer honestly, it is important to know that there are right and wrong answers. 

This part of the VJT aims to identify your unique working style, and characteristics such as integrity and assertiveness. In each question you will be presented with two statements, for each of which you will need to choose whether it is “most like me” or “somewhat like me.” These questions can be tricky, and knowing what types of work style characteristics CVS Health is looking for through this section can be a significant help.

As pharmacy technicians, you will be relied upon to use your knowledge and skills to help people get the medication they need, while assisting the pharmacists and management. The VJT for this position is similar to the pharmacist one (see descriptions and sample questions in the Pharmacist section above) but puts a greater emphasis on assessing your technical skills and includes one other unique sub-test. The VJT is built as follows -

• Work with Customers & Colleagues (Situational Judgement Test)
• What Drives You
• Tell Us Your Story
• Describe Your Approach
• Ensure Quality

While the sections listed above are in both CVS pharmacy VJTs, the Pharmacy Tech VJT includes one more unique test that our PrepPack will prepare you for: 

This sub-test is unique to the Pharmacy Tech position at CVS Health and will assess your basic math abilities under pressure. Although these questions are not awfully hard, you could find yourself making unusual mistakes under the pressure of the exam. Try to answer this question within 34 seconds, to simulate the pressure of the real VJT:

• The questions are misleadingly simple, but the truth is that reaching the correct answers can be tricky. CVS Health uses sophisticated predictive modelling to flag candidates that try to “please” the system. That is why it’s not recommended to answer based on a hunch or common sense.
• Failing the CVS Virtual Job Tryout will disqualify you from re-applying for six months.
• You need to answer fast - Even though the VJT isn’t timed, our test experts have found that responding too slowly can negatively affect your score.

How long is the CVS virtual job tryout?

The CVS Virtual Job Tryout is not timed, but it usually takes between 20 to 60 minutes to complete all VJT sections.

How do you know if you passed the CVS virtual job tryout?

If you pass the VJT you will then receive a call to schedule an interview at the store you applied to. If you fail the VJT, you’ll see your application with a “denied” status.

What does it mean when your job application has a status with "reviewed"?

It only means someone looked at your application, but doesn’t mean you’ve been rejected or that you have moved on to the interview stage. 

The CVS hiring process takes approximately two to three weeks to complete. These are its steps:

1. Apply for one of the open CVS job positions.
2. The Virtual Job Tryout (VJT)
3. An interview at the store you applied to work in
4. Drug test
5. Job offer 

The CVS interview process is a central part of the CVS Health Hiring process and varies greatly between positions. Having said that, if you are applying for an entry-level store job, you’ll probably get straightforward basic interview questions. Here are some of the questions job seekers might get on CVS Health interviews:

• Tell me about yourself
• Why do you want to work for CVS Health?
• Tell me about your strengths.
• What are your weaknesses?
• Where do you see yourself in five years? 

After finishing and submitting all VJT sub-tests, The VJT system will score you from 1-3 (Candidates cannot see this score).
Normally, you need to score a 3 to move on to the interview stage. But in some cases (if you applied through the Graduation Alliance for example, or if there’s an urgent need for staffing of the position to which you have applied to), you would still be able to get an interview if you scored a 2.