Hello everyone.
Feeling so relieved as the interview is finally over. During the interview some of the interviewers were a little bit surprised that the format of the interview for the SRD is available on blogs online. However, this will not reveal everything worry not. It will definitely show the format/timeline of the SRD I experienced.
So we were called to be at Menara Shell by 6.45 am. The program was set to be until 12pm. Miss Doria and Miss Siti greeted us before 7 and they told us to register, First we were registered into visitor IDs. We have to go through safety protocols. After everything was cleared we were invited into a meeting room. 6 of us. I was the only girl.
The first person I met while waiting was Nicco. He's a Sabahan born in Labuan. Currently in his first year at UniTEN studying Electrical Engineering.
Then Hafiz came, he was Philip's schoolmate - SMK Melawati if i'm not mistaken. He is currently on break I think, applying for Geo Science in Colorado/Nebraska, USA.
Samuel Soh is a first year student at Imperial College, London studying Mechanical Engineering.
Roland Adrian, undergoing his ADP hoping to transfer to the States to study Mechanical Engineering.
Last but not least, Thafiq from UTP (Universiti Technology Petronas) first year first semester. Afterwards there was another session but we didn't get enough time together to get to know them.
Anyway when we were assembled in the meeting room we were instructed to
read a 9 page case study. We had 45 minutes to read through. We were a team of 6 interns going off-shore. 6 things were taken into consideration and we were give a huge sum so we had to hold a meeting to agree on how to allocate our finance.
We had a little break while waiting for the other interviewers to arrive. Meanwhile we had breakfast prepared. Manage to talk to one of the panel - Mr. Harriah, He was very open about his experience. But anyways, back to the meeting. We all introduced ourselves and then the "
meeting" started, It only lasted for 25 minutes. It was generally just a discussion.
Next for my schedule, I was assigned for the
individual case study presentation. We were given a few options of increasing production, saving cost etc and we were asked to present it to the "Project Manager" for 15 minutes. We had 45 minutes to prepare/read up.
I got into the room Mr. Harriah was in and after my "Analysis" was done he really hit me with though questions that made me think. This was during the
10 minute Q&A session. But I managed in the end.
Later on I was given
45 minutes to write on a piece of paper to ask a question that I would ask in an actual meeting if I were to execute the plan above (referring to the analysis I just presented). The paper was divided into 3 parts: Questions, Explanation, Rationale (I THINK). Not very sure already.
Finally, the last stage was the
personal interview. I got two very nice interviewers. They asked me:
- about challenges I faced
- changes I had to adapt
- a new skill I learned
- etc..
I had to "walk them through" my experiences. So I talked about my experiences and they were very relaxed and cool about it. Was not very nervous throughout because they are very friendly and not at all stuck-up people. Despite their many years of experience they actually treated us like decent adults. It was a cool building - they had O'Briens in the meeting floor! Super cool environment.
Quite an experience I must say. All the best future applicants!
