Thanks for sharing. Could you please include:

What the video was about exactly?
What was contained on yours (and others) paper?
What you had to produce at end of exercise?

What data was given (oil price, asset price etc) and how did you use this?
What was the situation (decide which assets to buy?)
What was the objective?
What problems/issues where there?
How did you lay your case study out/presentation?
What important info is there to look out for (linkages between things?)
What questions were asked specifically?


Reply to jackhall88@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks!
Jack H

Jack,

What is this? Are you doing a survey? FFS there is so much info on the SRD on this thread alone its remarkable. There isn't formula to 'beating' the Assessment. Just go do the damn thing and if you're good and they like you, you'll get an offer.

Hey Jack,

Though exhausting, SRD went really great!

All the coordinators were very helpful and the six assessors had alot of experience under their belt (20+ years), were highly knowledgeable (even beyond their discipline) and quite friendly. The Shell grads we met for dinner were sharp too, and I have a new found respect for all Shell grads.

Regarding your questions, everything you need to know is explained in detail in the Pre-SRD briefing, so I suggest that you come with these questions on that day. All Feb 12 candidates agreed with Shell Recruitment not to disclose confidential information about the SRD (which they invest heavily in for the selection process), and I will honour that trust. I believe all six of us on Feb 12 will do the same.

Shell Recruitment are very much aware of this LYN thread (surprise!) and they do monitor it from time to time. To Jack and everyone else reading, after sitting through SRD, my advice would be: 1) manage time well, 2) be authentic, 3) take a chill pill and have fun.

Best of luck!

medical job
got vacancy available????

Good day fellas,

Anyone attending SRD around the first week of March?

Anyone knows how much is starting salary for shell graduate engineer?

I don't know, I applied on January 13th, 2015 and my application was accepted (passed both Assessment) and was invited for an interview two days after I completed my 2nd Assessment. Their response are very fast and efficient. The only time it takes a while is the interview date and the SRD since that is depending on the interviewer availability, especially the SRD since it will be carried out by the group of 6.


This post has been edited by nnzulkifli: Feb 23 2015, 04:57 PM

Wow that's fast
Have you attended your interview already?

http://www.thestar.com.my/Business/Marketw...?qcounter=SHELL
Those jokers are sharp on what? TCSS?
Looking at the financial report, I think the grads employed are more on sleeping, rather than turning a lost profit making company to profit making company

Recently went for the SRD (2014) and passed. As LSG mentioned above, detailed info about the SRD is strictly confidential, and I don't think anybody here is willing (or stupid enough) to jeopardize a chance to work with Shell over such a matter.

What I can offer, however is general advice and some tips on what I think helped me to pass.

1) Time management. Do the practice exercises. When I mean time management, I don't mean looking at the timer every minute thinking oh gosh I have to hurry. It's far simpler and more logical to follow a structure ie .
I have _ minutes to answer _ questions - that means _ minutes per question. 1 question longer than your allocated time? Take your pick, cut your losses (educated guess) or maybe throw in half a minute more to get the accurate answer. Extend this to all the exercises - structured time management was the single most important thing for me.

2) Get to know your teammates. As far as I know, you are not competing against the other candidates. So, it only makes sense for all of you to work as a team - be friendly, be social and encourage each other. You know, just like how a team works in the real world. Encouraging an introvert to speak up (or being on the receiving end of this) is easier when you guys are on friendly terms , similarly when somebody is being too dominating/bossy, its easier to tell them to tone it down if you guys are friends. Besides, its more fun that way. I honestly think the main reason the success rate of the candidates in my SRD was higher than most of what I've read in this thread is solely due to the fact we worked excellently as a team.

3) Be logical, and think things through. It's ok to say "Give me a few moments to think this through"

Very general advice, but you'd be surprised at the amount of people who just don't understand this.

I have also read a few posts mentioning things like don't be outspoken, bossy etc - evidently being a bossy know it all isn't going to score you any points , but the candidates that passed from my SRD were a mixture of extroverts and introverts, so simple advice? Be the best person you can be (if you think you are too vocal/bossy, try to rein it in a bit. If you are quiet, practice speaking out. It'll help when you are in the working world anyway)

do you actually realize that the link you posted is actually shell refining? its different from shell global. joker.

Shell as a whole are doing bad basically
And if the grads are so good to serve global, then Shell would be the best company in the world from few years back, but this does not happens.
But Shell do making record now, by keep on selling assets globally. Geelong sold, Lutong sold, Stanlow sold. If taking more grads is just to sell assets, I guess the quality of them are known.

Well, selling assets, on its own, is not an inherently good or bad thing. If the asset sales are meant to streamline their portfolio and phase out underperfoming assets to build a robust balance sheet and free up cash flow for better-returning investments, then there's a positive side to it.

For upstream, the industry as a whole is "doing bad basically" due to the oil price slump.

For downstream, refineries globally with smaller capacities and older refining technologies are facing shrinkages in margins so it looks to be an industry-wide rather than a company-specific issue.



This post has been edited by blackchides: Feb 24 2015, 04:33 PM

*slow claps*

Thank you. My response would've been far more condescending. And as far as upstream businesses go, the only comparable company is Exxon, in terms of revenue generation. The other oil majors (I'm looking at you BP),are doing relatively worse. To compare any company with other companies of a different industry, in order to benchmark performance would be unfair. Perhaps the gentleman, would like to take an introductory economics course to understand the basics of Supply and Demand and Business Cycles. F***, and I was trying to not be condescending.

Good morning!

Anyone attending SRD this week?

IT intake freeze.

Shell is closing Cyberjaya IT hub and move the IT support to IT Bangalore in next 3 years.

anyone know where the shell location in malaysia?? only miri??

This post has been edited by Carl Johnson: Mar 6 2015, 06:31 PM

There are various Shell in Malaysia. SMEP is at KL Sentral, SSB & SSPC at Miri, Shell IT at CyberJaya, SBSC at Damansara (also residing Shell Trading Malaysia), Shell Refining Malaysia at Port Dickson, Shell MDS at Bintulu (GTL Plant), Shell BIF also in Bintulu.

hello. i am currently a final year student taking photonics engineering. am i eligible to apply for this graduate program? thanks