anyway for those who are going for SI.. this article I took from glassdoor really did helped me.. hope it will help you guys too
PETRONAS Structured Interview (SI)
The structured interview comprises of 4 different sections:
i) One on One Interview
ii) Case Study
iii) Role Play Session
iv) Competency Behavioral Interview
1. Ice-breaking Session
This is just a normal ice-breaking session to ensure you confortable with the session. Get ready with the following questions :
a) Family /education background
b) Brief summary of your working experience, if any.
c) Your strengths and weaknesses?
d) Your best achievement?
a) Introduce yourself (5-10 minutes) (Studies, abilities, qualities & etc)
b) What is your interest? (Provide a reasonable elaboration)
c) Your strengths and weaknesses?
d) Your best achievement? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
e) How do you pick yourself up after a bad experience/facing a failure?
f) (Elaborate based on your past experience)
g) How do you handle a conflict?
h) (Elaborate based on your past experience)
i) How do you find your leadership?
j) Have you encountered a situation where you are required to lead a group of subordinates? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
k) Have you encountered a situation in which your integrity being challenged? What did you do? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
l) What and how you can contribute/add value to PETRONAS?
m) What do you look in your career?
n) Why do you think you suit this position?
o) What are your strength and weaknesses?
p) Tell me about your experience especially after five years you studying in university?
q) five minutes, tell something about yourself but nothing to do with your job
Duration: +/- 10 minutes or so
2. Case Study
You will be given an article from POTENTIA as a case study. The objective of this session is to see how you think and what you know ! Don’t worry so much on the topic as most of it is a general topic/knowledge. If you read a lot, will help you better in the session.
What you need to do ? Don’t panic, read the article carefully line by line and try to understand the whole story and try to highlight some key elements for discussion later.
You are allowed to jot down your key points in a A4 paper given by the interview administrator. Your notes will later be collected by the interview administrator. 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.
Topics:
a) PEOPLE Strategy
b) Corporate Finance
c) Product Change
d) Tourism
e) Costly Mistakes
f) Home Schooling
g) Pollution
h) Market Share
i) ICT
j) Nanotechnology
k) Integrity
l) Asylum
m) Corporate Growth
n) Value Profile
o) Global Warming
p) Publicity and Privacy
q) sub contract
r) Company Merging
s) R&D
3. Competency Behavioral Interview
Behavioral interviewing is interviewing based on discovering how the interviewee acted in specific employment related situations. The logic is that how the interviewee behaved in the past will predict how he/she will behave in the future, whereby this interviewing technique believes that past performance does predict future performance.
Some of the questions that they might asked :
• How you handle conflicts
• How you manage a team
Duration: +/- 15 minutes or so
4. 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). 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.
In role play the interviewers will see how you progress with each card. The new card demand thougher role play than the previous one. Should you handle well he will pass you another card. It indicates good progress.
However sometimes the interviewers could not see clear indication how the candidates stand and he will pass on to a new card to see how the candidate handle it and compare it with his view on the previous card.
Be confident and have an open mind. View each situation considering all angles, ie the business that you in charged, environment ,the staff, people affected by the business and finally the nation and the world.
Interview Question – If you are the plant manager, how would you deal with the safety officer if there is a accident in ur plant? Assessor will act as the safety officer, and you are the plant manager.