if i were to get a job at target, i wouldn't want to just be in any department, i wanna be in electronics (pretty much the only thing i'm good at). i wouldn't know how to apply for that specific department though.
Let me clue you in on something, I worked for Walmart nearly 2 years, I don't anymore I have moved into a much better job. Any bottom of the food chain retail job, will have a fine print in their work agreements that allows them to essentially cross train you and put you wherever they want. Target and Walmart are not any different, since Target is a Minnesota company, a great chunk of my friends and peers current work and or worked for Target at some point. You can be put in one department, but you won't stay there forever, maybe for the first couple months as you get trained in and comfortable, after that they evaluate you in a total span on 90 days which will decide if they want to keep you or not. After then typically if they do, you're now officially the "bitch" of that store.
I left Walmart for these key reasons, I was, in my honest to god opinion, actually good at customer service and was continually recognized for that even from Bentonville where Walmart is located. The only issues were that because I showed enough competence to work with customers anywhere in the store, I ended up running our Photo-center (which I was primarily hired for) which entailed printer maintenance and photo product creation like canvases and other goods, electronics (phone activation's, TV sales, anything electronic I dealt with), Paint/Hardware (dispensing and mixing paint for customers), Sporting goods (getting and selling people ammunition, license registration for hunting and fishing, and key cutting, and Fabrics & Crafts (measuring and cutting of materials). Fabrics wasn't hard to do, just a pain in the ass in an understaffed environment. I spent days where I would be the only one for Photo, Electronics, Hardware/Paint, Sporting Goods, and Fabrics for 6 hours straight, and the best part, there was only 2 managers throughout the store.
As a conclusion here, I went in 2 weeks ago and talked with some old coworkers, and according to them, customers have actually commented from me not being present, that they may shop elsewhere because they feel they won't get the same service that I have provided for them in the past. Walmart was never my original job nor was it my most important, but it showed me I had a skill in customer service, and so long as you apply yourself, you can get far in any field you want. Just beware, a lot of people start at the bottom, but it doesn't mean you can't work your way up fast.
Use Bolster's advice, job requirements are a legal way of saying "we want to weed out the stupid forgets who will overload us with applications that will take weeks and a lot of time and money to sort through." Some requirements are good to base on "Can I do this job?" or "Does this job suit the skills I recognize in myself?". Make a list of skills and talents you have, and maybe some accomplishments or tasks you have done that back those up and you would be solid for an interview with Target which entails the routine questions of scenarios and "When X thing happens, how have you responded to X thing, and what did you do to fix X thing?"
