Why? I think the canteen food sucks... The only good points are three pool tables and Shell shop...

How do I know? Well, I've been there once or twice...

So who actually works for Shell here?

2 minute internet reaserch revealed:

Shell Recruitment Day

Piece of cake...

What's so difficult in it?

Anyway, coming to the original topic, anyone from here attending SRD on Thursday the 13th?

Shell Recruitment Day is meant to be final selection of HIGH POTENTIAL graduates. If successful the candidates are offered a permanent position in Shell and their career is carefully managed during their first years of employment.

That is always the case. Don't argue - I know better.

What was that funny?

Well you can't say that, but to be fair to Shell - they've spent a lot of time and money developing a fair system of selection of high potential candidates.
It's no good if instead of high potentials you would get the averages that learnt stuff from the web.

Anyway - good luck on Tuesday...

On the contrary I think the scoring is actually quite objective - it's evidence based.

That's partially correct - SITI is Shell IT International and is a registered company. GITI is a global organisation as far as I know.

By the way there is 4 SITI companies. Ltd in UK, BV in NL, Inc in US and Sdn Bhd in MY.


This post has been edited by Polishman: Mar 23 2007, 02:46 AM

Well actually BP has most of it's IT already oursourced.

And I don't belive lower cost is a main factor - especially seeing the net profits of Shell.


This post has been edited by Polishman: Mar 26 2007, 06:49 PM

Well check www.shell.com/careers - I can see Shell has about 35 IT related jobs on offer in Malaysia. Some are definitely in the area of your interest.

Since it's an allowance - it's discretionary. The company make take it away any time...

That's exactly what it is not. Allowance is "discretionary extra". Basic salary is the "guaranteed pay".

The fact that people do agree to low basic salary is their problem. They should have been smarter when signing the contract.

What's a fishtank team? Are they into fishing?

Aquarium, right? What do they do? Swimming with sharks?

Really? In what sense?

That's fair though - if you are in the same type of job and you perform similarily you should be earning roughly the same amount.

You have explained your own decision process very well. You chose the wrong job for you and you were impatient. Well, you can blame the employer for that can you? And what's wrong serving "dumb a s s users"? Remember - in the area of their expertise - you're about just as "dumb a s s" if not worse as they are to you from the IT perspective.
Actually helpdesk experience helps enormously later on in the career. This is when you know how to deal with non technical people and explain different technical aspects in "layman's terms". You also know how to deal with angry people correctly. You may not see the benefit right now, but give it another 5 or 10 years and that knowledge always comes back as very useful and valuable.

Of course Shell and any other big employer has to require some time committment from the staff. Ususally helpdesk staff has to commit for a relatively short periods. On the other hand - 2nd and 3rd line support positions are generally quite well filled, so unless someone moves away - they don't have a spare position to "promote" the helpdesk analyst.

You have to think outside of your own cubicle and take a lot of aspects into the perspective.