the structured interview comprises of 4 different sections
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The structured interview comprises of 4 different sections:
i) One on One Interview
ii) Case Study
iii) Role Play Session
iv) Aptitude Test (Numerical and Language Test)
1.0 One on One Interview
Introduce yourself (5-10 minutes) (Studies, abilities, qualities & etc)
What is your interest? (Provide a reasonable elaboration)
Your strengths and weaknesses?
Your best achievement? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
How do you pick yourself up after a bad experience/facing a failure?
(Elaborate based on your past experience)
How do you handle a conflict?
(Elaborate based on your past experience) How do you find your leadership?
Have you encountered a situation where you are required to lead a group of subordinates?
(Elaborate based on your past experience)
Have you encountered a situation in which your integrity being challenged? What did you do?
(Elaborate based on your past experience)
What and how you can contribute/add value to PETRONAS?
What do you look in your career?
Why do you think you suit this position?
AND! Remember to prepare some questions for the interviewer as well!
Duration: +/- 30minutes or so
2.0 Case Study
You will be given a piece of article as a case study. You are required to study the material carefully,
understand the case as well as to highlight some key elements within the article. (Duration:
15minutes or so)
You might want to jot down your ideas and key points as you are then required to present the case
study to the interviewers. Remember to make a presentable, smart looking & well brainstormed
notes as it will be collected by the interviewer at the end of the session.
You will be asked to discuss the case study from various point of views i.e. Key elements (why do
you choose that as key elements?), wider implications, main problems, suggested solutions & the
benefits (Presentation and Q&A Duration : 45minutes)
Some of the case study topics:
1. PEOPLE Strategy
2. Corporate Finance
3. Product Change4. Tourism
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5. Pollution
6. Market Share
7. ICT
8. Nanotechnology
9. Integrity
Dont worry too much if you do not know the case study very well. They just want to see the way
you think and how your present your case.
3.0 Role Play
You will be asked to do a role play together with the interviewer. There will be three separate
cards which represent three different situations i.e. (Manager vs. Staff rep, Manager vs Teacher &
etc)
Example: You are a factory manager. 4 students from a nearby school came to do a practicaltraining within the factory. Suddenly there has been an incident of theft reported. Some of your
permanent staffs have lost a significant amount of money and they were very upset. The staffs have
accused the trainees of stealing the money as such incident has never occurred in the past. How
would you handle the situation?
The interviewer (staff representative) will try to provoke you (manager) with various arguments.
You will have to stand up for your principle and at the same time maintain the professionalism.
The whole idea of this exercise is to examine your sense of empathy, integrity as well as
professionalism.
4.0 Aptitude Test
Questionnaires
88 questions within 15 minutes
Writing Test - Essay
Comprehension Test
You will be given 5-6 paragraphs, each paragraph contains 3-4 questions. So total question you will
need to answer is about 20. This is multiple choice questions (TRUE, FALSE and CAN NOT SAY).
(Duration: 15 minutes or so)
Mathematical Test (30 something questions to be completed in 18 minutes).
Multiple choice of a,b,c,d,e. You will be given a piece of paper with various statistics data presented
in the form of bar charts, pie charts & graphs. The questions will be asked based on the charts given
and to make it worse, the questions are being put in random manner. Some questions have 2 pie
charts, you will need to calculate the value or the percentage of cake in the chart, the percentage
of profit and loss, which you may have to look back into another pie chart. The questions look easy
(only involves simple operations (+.-,x,%)), but sometimes could be very tricky. (Duration: 18
minutes)
Dont forget to bring along your calculator
am still waiting for my interview results. About the Aptitude test, im not sure whether they'll do itduring the interview day or not, but last time i did the test online. And the writing test was also done
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at home. During the interview day, i just bring along all the forms they asked to complete including
the essay test + certs.