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!

petronas scholar only do 3 yrs degree program in UK. most of them were hired (do well in SI).