Anyone has been went for petronas for interview? can tell me how they conduct their interview?thanks a lots.....

i failed d on9 test

must wear low low cut, sure pass

what type of online test they conduct? wat course are u major ?

i went before.

2 stupid women interviewed me.

should be easy for you lah

What's the position you got?I think you need to be outspoken.Don't be afraid to voice out and maybe even argue with the interviewer.I know petronas likes people like that.

petronas = nepotism

believe me...if you are freshie....dont have any crony.. u will definitely will not get it even though u r scholar


unless if you are professional worker...easily to get in

Where did u check the result... just took the exam lust week...

How long for PETRONAS to respond your application? Is it takes 3 months?

im about to take the online test..can tell me what kind of question it was?

hmm...they called it as SI - structured interview..

1st: the personality test - do it online..u need to reg to get the username etc2..forgot ady..

2nd: ability test - series of test for your brain..3 papers if im not mistaken..

1. wordy lenghty paper <--test ur management/critical thinking skill
2. basic math, but real tricky..n the numbers involve quite a headache oso <--test ur technical skill
3. essay..<--test ur persuasive/convincing skill?

all these be done prior to ur interview session...

thanks alot ya

hmm...when did u take the test?

becoz the one i received from email only got two parts, verbal reasoning test and numerical reasoning test..yeah, the numerical reasoning test is quite a headache bcoz my friend's friend said a lot of people cant get through the numerical test..but i dont have any idea bout verbal reasoning test

so, the personality test is just to measure our personality, but what kind of essay question did they ask?

mmm..basically, they are some questionnaire to answer, n later part is an essay...its like to see how well u can sell yourself:

1 - wat ur most-proud achievement n why..
2 - wat does dat achievement contribute to urself
3 - y shud petronas hire u..

dat sort of question..

n for 1-on-1 interview, its quite tough oso... they give u a topic/statement ½ hr prior to interview, then ask u to elaborate/solve/troubleshoot that probs.. later it will be questioned in interview..

in 1-on-1 interview itself, as usual self intro a bit of chit chat..then role play, where they will give u situation n u will play as some1 in dat..quite interesting tho..

p/s: pray for good interviewer..fren of mine got strict interviewer, n later he failed the interview..

no lah.. i'm freshie when i start working with petronas early feb.. don't have any crony or cable.. not even a scholar..

its all about yourself man.. be positive..

I guess your university/college spoken for itself. Let say you are from ivy league, or something then they come right after you

This post has been edited by oyst3rman: Mar 14 2009, 02:46 PM

anyone apply for East Coast Economic Region Development Council which is under Petronas as well....?
Very interested but no response at all...

well, it takes time for them to process your application

be patient la, there are like so many people wanting to join Petronas

lol. tink betta find sum other oil company... i evn know some petronas scholars that r praying hard so that they get released

i went to all the test, interview and finally worked there...
but at the end of the day, i just quit my self...
sometimes, u can't tell...even tough its a good/big company,but when u felt like u dont belongs to it...then it was nothing...

the online test is nothing...they just know what type of person r u...no pass or fail...no worries

during the interview session, u'll be given a several test with shorten time (15 min.) to answer too many questions (i.e 20-30 quest.), the answer is u only required to answer at least 5-8 correct answers out of 20-30 quest.

they just want to measure how u tackle the 1st 10 questions...whether is it all wrong or correct...

i managed to get the highest during my time but I just "hentam" all the answer, cause not enough time...but makesure u answer all even tough not enough time...

trust me, its just matter of ur luck n pray...gud luck!!!

what i heard freshie RM3.5k, experienced RM4.5k above.

true, after 1 year the freshie will get another RM500 for tech allowance...

Office is in Kl, but need travel there of course..
anyone u know working in East Coast Economic Region Development Council?

i was an instrument engineer, the reason was location...i insist to work somewhere klang valley but they attached me to the east cost side...n its better for me to leave the company, after all the chances for me to get transfer is zero or else i need to wait the next 5 years then they only can consider for relocate...but still not promising...

Went through the online verbal and numeric test 3 weeks ago. But until now still do not have any feedback from Petronas. Disappointed.

i failed the interview.. damn.. its just another good experience for me

kwnai,

normally, it took about 6-8 mths...if u r short listed n kiv

6-8 months......many things can happen.....

why needing such a long time to filter??

I though 6-8 months is for those who already went through the structure interview.

This post has been edited by kwnai: Mar 19 2009, 09:42 AM

Do they call everybody that drops their resume online, at career fair?

I know tonnes of people who have taken up the online test. And even to the interview. Just wondering

Would like to seek advice from lowyat forumer who have experience underwent Petronas's SI.
1. I am a fresh graduate
2. I have taken online test. Pass.
3. Had technical interview with this particular department and interviewed by the senior staff from the dept (they call the technical interview - chit chat). Dunno whether pass or not. But the HR guy said that pass or not, I will have to go to this SI. Dunno when.
4. So, this SI, with the latest update, from this forum, I conclude that:

(a) Conducted from 8-5?

(b) Divided into (i) Role play (ii) Essay (iii) Given topic and being interviewed by interview panelists? (And need to pray to get good interview panelists) (iv) Role play (v) Case study (vi) Ability test?

© All the type of assessments above conducted individually? Meaning I dont have to sit together with other candidates and they let us debating, and they will see who is good and who is not (i hate this)?

5. One of my questions, what are the topic that you are given for the interview?

6. Do I really need to be at KLCC at 8am? It is very difficult for me. Do you think I can gamblingly take my time and can arrive at KLCC around 8.15 to 830? I know interview = impression. But it is just my home quite far from KLCC. In addition, because i was made to inderstand, first activity is to watch video clips on petronas?

7. Any other tips?

This post has been edited by a300: Apr 9 2009, 09:42 PM

Petronas Structured Interview

The structured interview comprises of 4 different sections:
i) One on One Interview
ii) Case Study
iii) Role Play Session
iv) Aptitude Test (Numerical and Language Test)

1.0 One on One Interview
• Introduce yourself (5-10 minutes) (Studies, abilities, qualities & etc)
• What is your interest? (Provide a reasonable elaboration)
• Your strengths and weaknesses?
• Your best achievement? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
• How do you pick yourself up after a bad experience/facing a failure?
(Elaborate based on your past experience)
• How do you handle a conflict?
(Elaborate based on your past experience)
• How do you find your leadership?
• Have you encountered a situation where you are required to lead a group of subordinates? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
• Have you encountered a situation in which your integrity being challenged? What did you do? (Elaborate based on your past experience)
• What and how you can contribute/add value to PETRONAS?
• What do you look in your career?
• Why do you think you suit this position?


AND! Remember to prepare some questions for the interviewer as well!

Duration: +/- 30minutes or so

2.0 Case Study

• You will be given a piece of article as a case study. You are required to study the material carefully, understand the case as well as to highlight some key elements within the article. (Duration: 15minutes or so)
• You might want to jot down your ideas and key points as you are then required to present the case study to the interviewers. Remember to make a presentable, smart looking & well brainstormed notes as it will be collected by the interviewer at the end of the session.
• 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 (Presentation and Q&A Duration : 45minutes)
• Some of the case study topics:
1. PEOPLE Strategy
2. Corporate Finance
3. Product Change
4. Tourism
5. Pollution
6. Market Share
7. ICT
8. Nanotechnology
9. Integrity

• Don’t worry too much if you do not know the case study very well. They just want to see the way you think and how your present your case.

3.0 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)
• Example: You are a factory manager. 4 students from a nearby school came to do a practical training within the factory. Suddenly there has been an incident of theft reported. Some of your permanent staffs have lost a significant amount of money and they were very upset. The staffs have accused the trainees of stealing the money as such incident has never occurred in the past. How would you handle the situation?
• 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.

4.0 Aptitude Test

• Questionnaires
88 questions within 15 minutes
• Writing Test - Essay
• Comprehension Test
You will be given 5-6 paragraphs, each paragraph contains 3-4 questions. So total question you will need to answer is about 20. This is multiple choice questions (TRUE, FALSE and CAN NOT SAY). (Duration: 15 minutes or so)
• Mathematical Test (30 something questions to be completed in 18 minutes).
Multiple choice of a,b,c,d,e. You will be given a piece of paper with various statistics data presented in the form of bar charts, pie charts & graphs. The questions will be asked based on the charts given and to make it worse, the questions are being put in random manner. Some questions have 2 pie charts, you will need to calculate the value or the percentage of ‘cake’ in the chart, the percentage of profit and loss, which you may have to look back into another pie chart. The questions look easy (only involves simple operations (+.-,x,%)), but sometimes could be very tricky. (Duration: 18 minutes)
Don’t forget to bring along your calculator

am still waiting for my interview results. About the Aptitude test, im not sure whether they'll do it during the interview day or not, but last time i did the test online. And the writing test was also done at home. During the interview day, i just bring along all the forms they asked to complete including the essay test + certs.

Good luck anyway!

wht u said is true.many of my friend are stuck. For eg, there is a famous church in East Msia called SIB, (and it also means stuck in bintulu) hehehe...
fyi bintulu is in sarawak, a place that takes 2 hours KL flight and there is no McDonald and Gardenia bread there.

Thanks very much wareyenet. Really2x appreciate your information provided as above. I will utilize it as much as possible.

Thanks again.

after six month petronas kept me as potential candidate...lastly i fail get a job at petronas...so sad..but at least i have experience..i dont know why?
because recession, or not scholar, or dont have cable..haha

hmmm...nice 'acronym' u got there. sure u gonna pissed off those who going to those churches. By the way, is it that bad there's none McD or gardenia bread there? im sure u'll survive without gardenia bread coz there are plenty of food there other than that.

I'm not sure now if there's any McD outlet there (with the development and all right now) but they do have other fast food restaurants like mary brown's.

sunny2009,

from the way ur thinking i can say ur not a open minded and chalenging person. u can't live without McD or bread?
and fyi sarwak now is now under the SCORE project which will soon boost investors from all over the world to land in sarawak. so i guess Mcd then will be just a pawn among the other franchises.

*sigh* youngster nowadays...why always keep blaming other,n not urself first? don't be too full of yourself, dat when u dun get job offer from the company, all the crony-cable-scholar thingy went out..just admit that u r not up to their standard of employment or something..

got some of my frens who score very well - 3.8+ CGPA in univ - but ended up being rejected by PETRONAS..so, juz dun get overconfident and too full of urself dude..

Petronas is the only company want to interview me even though I got a 3rd class degree. other company reject bulat2... kekeke

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Added on December 4, 2009, 11:56 amwow..is this applicable to experience candidate also?


This post has been edited by razorzx66: Dec 4 2009, 11:56 AM

Yes razor. Everybody

very organize assesment make me put a hope to join them

How do u know that u failed the online test?
Did petronas send u an email or call u?

Hi Guys,

I passed the SI back in May '09.
But till to date (10 months ardy) still no offer..

Helpless.
Must have cable uh?
Don't know what to do..
HRM says 'll contact me when there is a relevant position.
My degree in Chemical

Hi Guys,

I need info on PETCO (Petronas Trading Corporation).It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of Petronas- the only info I could find from the main website.

I'm attending a chat session soon for Chartering under PETCO.

Any info on this OPU and the specific role which can help me to prepare for the chat?

Look for oher job lah..
i passed interview and everything,even when i call to confirm they said my interview was recommended.
now 2 years already, still no hope but still every year i sent resume online.
luckily after 6 months no job offer from petronas i manage to secure a good job from big ong construction n commissioning.

now thinking to jump ship already...

hey guys, i have an interview scheduled today for legal officer. The thing is, I didn't submit any application but they called me because I achieved a certain cgpa in my uni. I was told that there will be 3 stage interview.

I am not too sure if I have to wait 6 months to get an answer. LOL, it's difficult to wait that long for an answer.

i'm a pet scholar.
currently there are hundreds of petronas scholar that are recommended to work with Petronas.(for july 2010 batch session.the one just graduate this year)
month already.from what i know,just 3 of them got their placement in petronas.
if u are a freshie,its hard to get at the moment.but if u hav a strong exp in working field,there's a possibility..but still...hundreds are waiting..this hundreds from UTP..i dont know how many from other uni..and i dont how many that recommended student from previous batch that still jobless and waiting from the petronas.
all i heard,u need a cable to work in there.if u just waiting from klcc HR..
berjanggut jugak ler~

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This post has been edited by iraa79: Oct 15 2010, 12:17 AM

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Am wondering if there are pet scholars who were recommended but still awaiting job offers?
Would love to discuss further with those in the same condition..

This post has been edited by Sweet_Candy: Oct 19 2010, 09:44 PM

think you gonna fail. can't even probably put up a topic title.... are you always full cap of every email/topic title?

scholar pet, utpians, graduated 2 years back, didnt manage to get through ~_~"

[quote=Sweet_Candy,Oct 19 2010, 09:31 PM]
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Am wondering if there are pet scholars who were recommended but still awaiting job offers?
Would love to discuss further with those in the same condition..

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believe me. so so so so many, wait 6 months for nothing

Petronas scholars,

I'm curious.
I have heard about the long list of scholars who are waiting for placement.

1.What if you pass the interview, but fail to get any placement for more thn 1 or 2 years.. Do you need to payback the amount they sponsored you?

2.How if you are frm foreign uni? Certainly the sponsorship amount is huge.Pay back aso?

3.What if you can't even get through the interview?

I'm sponsored by petronas, still studying.
Petronas's sponsorship is always a loan, unless they hire you, then it will be converted to a scholarship.

According to the contract, if after 6 months and we're not hired by petronas or being placed into other companies (by petronas as well), we will have to pay back all the amount (about 150k for 5 years study in UTP)
within 30 days
(however, it's said that the loan payback is negotiable, and we only pay back a small portion, where the amount depends on our academic performance, 10% for first class, can't be sure anyway)

My friend went for the interview in KLCC.
She got in. According, majority of the interview was role playing on a case given. The questions were so tough. Basically management problems. Which are some how impossible to deal with.
So good luck!

lol.. there're a number of us (not more than 20) graduated from UK last year under this AhLong named 'PETRONAS'.

As usual, same as local grads, we've to take SI and etc2. Some of us passed, and some failed. For them who failed the SI, immediately they prepare for your Repayment Loan letter and the Release Letter. For one of us, under special PETRONAS project which they've sent the top/super cream of the cream student for their A Level/IB abroad ie; UK has been released due to not passing the SI. Unlucky for him, he got released, and obviously, being abroad for 6 years won't be cheap!

He has been asked to pay for 30% of the loan, RM275k approx for monthly RM1300.00 (no mistake with this figure) and increased with RM100 every year. Where the hell a graduate electronics engineer can earn up to their expectation with the loan amount repayment.

I'm a graduate, recommended list from overseas as well and yet still waiting. My senior, graduated with 1st class, recommended, yet been released coz PETRONAS failed to employ.

Other than that, my advise is, AVOID PETRONAS! they're !@#$%^& evil.

for those who has brothers/sisters, don't let them take PETRONAS 'scholarship'. There are lot more helpful sponsorship than this AhLong. I regret my decision to put aside MARA and JPA offer earlier.

MARA: 1st class= apprxo 1%-5%
2nd upper: 10%
2nd lower: 15%
3rd class: 30%


PETRONAS: 1st class= 10%
2nd upper: 15%
2nd lower: 30%
3rd class: (never dream to be still sponsored with this result. U'll terminated before your graduation) btw, the figure approx is 50%

Wah..

That means ur fren pay back ony 30% (275K) of the total amount given to him (916.7K)??

That's humble enough..

Not bad what for having secured ony 2nd class lower

To all friends, sifus & forummer..

I just want to know that any other people that failed with the STRUCTURED INTERVIEW before??

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Added on March 30, 2011, 3:23 pmI thought that ALL the scholarship holder from PETRONAS was AUTOMATICALLY EMPLOYED by PETRONAS??

Am I wrong with this statement??

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Added on March 30, 2011, 3:30 pmWhat do mean you fail?? Did you FAILED THE STRUCTURED INTERVIEW ONLY??

This post has been edited by eboy7855: Mar 30 2011, 03:30 PM

i also have an interview this Wednesday.. wish me luck...

If there is no position in the company, even if you are a Petronas scholar, you will not be offered a position.

To all the senior who ever attended Petronas Structured Interview, may u all share what topics and situation of CASE STUDY and ROLE PLAY given to u???

I have gone through and passede telephone chi-chat session followed by online ability test...

And now i have confirmed with Petronas HR personnel that they will arrange an interview with me soon, and i want to get this job very much!!! ...

I applied for engineering executive E1 position. i only hav abt 2 years of experience but without any O&G experience.

so may all the senior out there pls share ur experience with me


a) CASE STUDY TOPICS

b) ROLE PLAY SITUATION


THX FOR UR INFO AND YOUR ASSISTANT WILL BE APPRECIATED

Thread i started to collect above mentioned info:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry43506921

hey...mine also on this Wednesday at 10 am...see ya there...

Good luck to all of you. I remembered the 1st time I went to the interview (15 years ago), I guess a lot has changed.

For those scholars, as mentioned by another poster, if there is no position, they will not offer you a job and unless you are on a scholarship (not a loan), then they will release you without asking you to pay (my time lah), now I don't know. I find it strange that if you are on a scholarship (not a loan) that if they don't have a position for you, that they will ask you to pay it back.

waahh dah dpt duit from petronas, hantar jauh2 pun komplen banyak...bayangkan la yg local grad like me nak masuk petronas pun blom tentu boleh....

I think drg complain sbb drg tak boleh masuk petronas sbb x ada kekosongan and kene bayar balik..and 1.3k per month for a fresh grad is a killer...most fresh grad are making around 2.5k..tolak epf smua..dapat la dlm 2,2k..lepas tolak 1.3k = jadi rm900..yeah..

its not petronas yg hantar but they get into the foreign uni later they applied for the scholar..correct me if I'm wrong.
By the way, ada byk local grad yg masuk petronas esp yg from UTP. But i believe it is better if you apply as a professional with few years exp daripada as a fresh grad.


It is not fair if they want the student to pay it back if Petronas fail to give him job due to no vacancy in the company. It is not like they knew this is going to happen. Companies that provide out scholar ship (or any act of community service) received tax exemption up to some percentage. And for company that is making billions like petronas, even 1% is damn lot. So if the student is required to pay, this is like highway robbery. And the additional interest does not help the student either.

I'm against such scholarship->they pay u scholar then u must work for them. There are so many opportunities out there and its a shame that you know even before you grad where you are going to work. Let say, you are under Petronas scholar, then just few months before you grad, u see an opening in Microsoft or Shell that you know you might have a chance, but you cant work there due to contract with Petronas. It sucks esp when u are in a long term contract.

I'm believe that as a fresh grad, you must jump to other company atmost after 2 years on your first job. Normally after 2 years, your development slows down. Your learning curve starts going horizontal. Unless you are on project based and doing different things, but usually that is not the case.


I prefer JPA, YTAR, or any other non bonding scholarship..
I heard Shell gives scholarship WITHOUT bonding..It is not even compulsory for you to take you internship in Shell>>this community service.

This post has been edited by optyx_spider: Jul 19 2011, 05:05 AM

very simple. do ur homework in the first place b4 accepting it. u should have thought of it before going overseas. whether can u afford to break your bond in case u get a better offer or in case they ask u pay back.. if ur fren has studied in utp, he wuould only need to pay back 30% of 120k which is only 36k..

if you want to jump companies in every 2 years in the oil and gas company, i dun think u cn do so unless u r a super excellent employee...if u have a look at the papers, in the oil and gas industry , they want at least 5 yrs experience b4 u cn join an operating company...as for petronas , they are already offering 4k for starting pay and this does not include allowances. they even provide superb training. who would give u that outside....mayb shell yess

btw , i have a friend who is a shell scholar and he is bonded to shell...there is no such thing as saying i think gives scholarship WITHOUT bonding.... evn as a utp student , it is not compulsary for me to do internship with petronas...i have friends who went n did their internships in altera, schlumberger, intel, halliburton , baker hughes and many other companies

Good answer.

I was a PETRONAS scholar and I was bonded for 10 years after I graduated (I had the option to be released without paying anything to them though if they didn't find me a place in the company) BUT I do personally feel that I am grateful for PETRONAS who spent close to 400K in sending me overseas and I am a man of my word. I sign a contract that says that once I return, I must serve the company and so I did. A man is only as good as his word.

I left the company after 10 years to get other opportunities which I would not have gotten if not for the excellent training and job skills that I got from PETRONAS.

A scholarship/loan to send any of us to great tertiary eductaion system is not an entitlement. If you think that you really don't want to return and work in Malaysia (be it with a JPA/MARA/PETRONAS scholarship), then don't take the money/scholarship/loan. There are other people who is as good as you in their academic achievements who are willing to return and serve the country.

exactly my pt in the short one i posted.my take is petronas have been very good to those whom they have sponsored a lot of money both local and overseas.and i bet those guys wont be struggling so much like the rest of us in finding high paying jobs in ong or other fields since they already have that repo the rest of us need to scrape hard in experience to match.

Hi all,

I am new to this forum. I'm not sure do I really need to register or give an introduction in the new member list (other forum practice this)

I've attended Petronas S.I last 2 week and still waiting for the result. I'm an experienced candidate with 5 years BG in oilfield applying for exec. position in PMU.
After the S.I , admin told me i shall receive the result within weeks. She told me, normally that was the final interview. Is that normal for experienced applicants? Reading this thread discussion, I thought you have to go through all the process (haven't done any role play or IQ test)

barracuda_8119, was that your 1st or 2nd interview ?

I attended interview in July, next week will collect offer from them

how can i apply for working at ptronas??

Check this web

hi all,
can you tell me the proceedure and the questions of structural interview, because i am also 5.5 years experience reservoir(petroleum) engineer working in rteliance industries (E&P), mumbai india. I have structural interview on 23 aug 2011, please suggest me how to tackle this interview becuase i have already clear first technical interview which held on 24 june , in mumbai , india
thank you

My experience (fresh grad position) :

1) walk in. fill up forms. (At this point I was shocked that the minimum to enter is a 2:2. That's REALLY low.)
2) given a case study and given about 30 mins + to prepare - (I refused to prepare because I read it and it was so open ended and almost too easy so I just chilled out). Tried to talk to the other candidate who walked out from the interview room but our conversation ended after he found out my uni. (??)
3) got called to interview room - walk in, smile, chit chat. 1 on 2. Let's go!
4) case study discussion - just breeze through like a boss! too easy. My advice is stay confident and try to control the discussion. Direct the discussion to areas which u are familiar with and give succinct pseudo-intelligent replies to questions which you. Have alot to talk about too. (you can prepare for this earlier during the preparation time, but honestly it's way more fun to do it spontaneously under pressure, if that was pressure)
5) competency skills questions - another easily prepared section. (eg. tell us of a time where u had to use innovative skills to solve a problem?)

At this point I was told it was finished. But I was not done and I asked "what about role playing? I heard there was a role playing part earlier. I'm excited for that. " *eyes gleaming because I was INDEED having so much fun in the interview I wanted to do the role playing too*

But alas the reply I got was "That won't be necessary. Only if we cant get info that we want from you in the earlier parts then we'll do the role play."

So I didnt get to do this but basically,
6) role playing (if you are asked to do this part means you didnt do well in the earlier parts and because PETRONAS gives ppl so many chances that you get a another chance - the role play chance)


7) say bye. smile. walk out of the London hotel. And knew pretty much for sure an offer is coming.
8) receive offer letter in writing 2 weeks later
9) contemplate whether to accept/reject the offer. (THIS IS THE HARDEST PART, I FEEL. Mostly because I guess I did not apply but was just called up for interview in the first place and the fact that I am not bonded to them)


So there, I didnt get a technical interview which is why I felt this interview was WAY too easy compared to BP. Maybe it's just formalities for the scholars/UTP students, I don't know. But yeah, have fun.


Unrelated link but it's something I was reading while composing this reply. A good take on our local education system in malaysia where critical thinking is so discouraged. My friends in UM are increasingly annoyed with how everyone is just suppose to shut up and accept and copy.
http://rickardoberg.wordpress.com/2012/02/...ry/#comment-113

wrong..dont have any crony shit but still get in .. but if u have any then

is petronas only accepting engineering accounting, law, HR, students for interview?

I wonder can a chemistry or biotech students accepting into the interview?
do they restrict and particular about what fields u r from?

I got a double degree ( Chemistry and biology)friend who got petronas also. i would say no harm try ur luck.

May I know which field of job he / she is applying? did he/she got the offer?

During one of the petronas campus recruitment, he submitted his resume.he's been working in petronas for 2-3 yrs dy. I think he's working in Lab.

I see. that mean we need to select the fields when we apply to the company during campus recruitment right?

Does Petronas company really consider and particular about what degree you r doing? Like is it possible to apply for HR if i have no experiences in HR related fields and I hold a BSc in chemistry field?

to my knowledge, when you go discover petronas register(1)ing, you can choose what's your favorite field, if your resume managed to get spotted (2) by HR, then they will ask again during Structured Interview(3) in details. you probably have to convinced them how good u r in talent sourcing or payroll bla bla. No worries.

which means i need to do a relatively well study about HR field before i could put on a tick on the field i want to embark on.

I am not very sure how easy or how difficult will I be able to to pick up the HR skills but I know I need to do self research more on this field.

Ok, thanks for the reply, anyway!=)

erm....no.....you only need to study well about HR when they called you for Structured Interview. Duration of waiting their call varies from months to years, i suggest you start with a HR related job first before go for it.

even when it applies to campus interview? I thought campus recruitment should be more or less faster?

do you mean it will be better if we obtain experiences in SME, china man, or small companies first before applying to those MNC?

1. Assuming you have some fundamental knowledge of HR since you have interest in HR role, i would say your knowledge is enough to have interview in campus recruitment stage.
2. After your graduation, just go for your best job offer instead of reject the offer and WAIT for Petronas to call you for Structured Interview (S.I), be it SME, chinaman, or others which acts upon your best interest. Graduates who join petronas upon graduation are either by NETWORKING (PARENT, RELATIVES,Scholar) or by PURE LUCK. My case was the latter. just my 2 cents. cheers, mate.

This post has been edited by positive energy: Mar 11 2012, 09:24 PM

Hmmm ... may I know why you liked HR? I'll be frank, HR are the most hated department in PETRONAS. Ask anyone in Petronas and you will get the same response.

msotly i presume are networking...sad but true...and credits to them too cos eventhough its networking, they are good in their field.

hi all..

I will having an interview session with petronas carigali this coming few days..i apply through email only not website..they also give send invitation to me by email..then i call them for confirmation to come and ask about the mode of the interview..they said the mode only an interview session with 2-3 interviewer..

for information, i apply for civil engineer position..dont have any experience in oil & gas..just a little experience in civil engineering field..

so, do you all have any idea for this interview?what kind of question and if there any test to do rather than interview only?

mind to share your experience and opinion here..thanks

I was being interviewed (technical assesment) by PCSB last week and what i can say it was successfull.
There were 3 panels, which is Technical "Otai", and it was like a chit chat session on ur expereince at first, but sometimes the question can make your brain in 'blank' mode. but I manage to provide the answer eventhough I have a feeling that the answer was not the correct one. I believe is not whether u are giving a wright or wrong asnwer, but to test your confident level to speak and brief the solution. So my 2cents advise is, u must be prepare or check back your current jobscope, in terms of technical and management. You have to describe by giving an example and how u manage it.

e.g: Have u ever been in a situation where u was not able to provide the solution?
answer: u need to give an example based on your experience, explain technically and how u manage it. Dont say "No".

The interview session was last for almost 2 hour, and at the end of interview, just ask nicely whether they recommend u or not.

hye,

how long does it take for you to email them and u got the response for the interview ??

agreed, they think they shud be adressed like king
I tried query abt my payslip inconsistencies but instead i get the "u shud be thankful u have a job" preach
lol

Last year, Petronas hired a lot of green (not under Petronas bond or something like that)....and I think this year would be the same.It is kind of weird...but it is true and a lil bit ridiculous

Ermmm why is it ridiculous?

Green? What does that mean???