Malvo, try get more information from them, like normally what position is usually offered with that qualification of yours. This will make them look up their system, if not start thinking. Who knows suddenly they see a vacant and might just put you through. In return, they may ask you what is your preference. Try relate with your current experience and oil and gas, it helps to get you somewhere. The longer you talk on the phone, the more HR gets to know you. Among all the stranger on the paper which they deal everyday, eventually people tend to help someone which they know about, or they think they know about. This is basic phychology trick.

ali baba?

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Generic slang term used in the Mid-East region for "bad guy". Comes from the fable 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'.
When non-English speaking middle-easterners want to point out terrorists, criminals, and assorted scum to US troops they point and yell, "Ali Baba! Ali Baba!"
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Unfortunate term among Iraq War GIs to describe any Iraqi bad guy: looter, thief, insurgent, terrorist, or suspect.
The use of "Ali Baba" is probably not helping us win the war for Hearts and Minds in Iraq.
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by Bill Peters Oct 8, 2006 share this
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Ali Baba is used generally in the middle East meaning to steal, this pre-dates the Iraq war. The term relates mainly to petty theft.
Someone will ali baba that if you leave it there
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by Mark Baker Jan 19, 2007 share this
sauce: urban dictionary
anyway,

anyone to provide insight on this CHIT CHAT SESSION??

have u been to one?

Malvo, try get more information from them, like normally what position is usually offered with that qualification of yours. This will make them look up their system, if not start thinking. Who knows suddenly they see a vacant and might just put you through. In return, they may ask you what is your preference. Try relate with your current experience and oil and gas, it helps to get you somewhere. The longer you talk on the phone, the more HR gets to know you. Among all the stranger on the paper which they deal everyday, eventually people tend to help someone which they know about, or they think they know about. This is basic phychology trick.

vin_ann, all the best in your second attempt!

For those who still don't quite understand petronas due to lack of information, here's some I wish to say. (Hopefully you are willing to listen ). Yup, I'm a satisfy employee working in petronas. I'm a non-Bumi working under a Bumi boss, don't have much non-Bumi colleague, but nevertheless there wasn't any issue of racist in my office. There isn't any relative (close and far) or friends that work in petronas, except for myself. Over the years working here, I meet a few friends who has the same background as me.

These days, the competition is just too tough. While UTP has strengthen their undergrad programme, review and revise every several years. Their graduates are just too good. In the next 5 years, once the first batch of petroleum students graduate from UTP, it would be even tougher for other universities to compete in this industry.

try for wat? very free issit?

i heard rumour said non-bumi hardly can get promotion.
is that true?

Heard that 3.5k for fresh grad is not come just like that.. Those fresh grad won't have the retirement benefit or less retirement benefit as compared to previous batch employee.. 

Fresh grad student I think is harder to get into Petronas since mostly they take from their own sponsored student at Universiti Teknologi Petronas.. Every 6months more than 150++ Petronas sponsored graduated from UTP.. Heard from friends who intern at Petronas, the culture there is not good but think the culture may vary from dept and dept.. While UTP sponsored malays students tried to absorb into Petronas, most UTP sponsored chinese student tried to escape from being absorb by Petronas coz they aim for other oil n gas company or simply because does not like be in the Petronas culture..   

For the interview structure, it's the same for recruiting fresh grad and experienced candidate where need to undergo:-
1. Writing Test (More to ethical questions)
2. Numerial Test
3. Verbal Test (sort of english comprehension test)
4. Occupational Personality Questionaire (Personality test for them to know in detail about your personality)
5. Interview (Have 4 stages)
    5.1.  Background Check
    5.2  Case Study
    5.3  Competency based Interview
    5.4  Role Play

I agree on a thing.. The HR is slow..