Experience #3-Schlumberger Asia Services Limited Preparation and Selection Process for the Company Schlumberger recruits mainly for the post of Field Engineer. They require people who have worked in a team and have very good communication skills. They want people with dynamic personalities and those who can easily adjust in any environment. Also the profile required the Field Engineer to be on rigs and off shore for most periods. Shortlist: Schlumberger shortlisted certain candidates. This process was carried out based on the resume. I don’t know the criteria on which the shortlist was prepared; CGPA certainly wasn’t the sole criterion considering that I had average CGPA but still made it to the shortlist. Resume: The resume should not exceed two pages according to placement norms so I had to make sure that I write down all my extra-curricular and my academic achievements in a compact manner to ensure that all of them fit in my resume. There were 11 extra-curricular activities that I managed to pen down. I used only one resume in all the companies only changed my areas of interest to make them compatible with the profile on offer. I also mentioned about my projects and internships. Useful tip: A person may have diverse areas of interest but he has to ensure that not all should be mentioned in any company. Only a select few areas of interest, which are simpatico with the profile, have to be mentioned in the resume. You cannot mention structural engineering as an area of interest in while applying in a company like Oracle. Group Discussion: I didn’t prepare for GD much. In our 2nd semester of 3rd year we had a course of communication skills; in this course we would quite frequently have discussions on various topics which helped me develop certain skills that proved to be availing during the GD’s. The first round in the recruitment process of Schlumberger was GD. There were 8 people in my group. The topic of the GD was ‘Houston, we have a problem!’ It was a very abstract topic. None of us really knew what it originally meant, but everyone in the room presented their own interpretation of the topic. I personally said, Houston was base station for space ventures and any problems encountered by the astronauts in their spaceships would be relayed back to the base station under the message title ‘Houston, we have a problem!’ The GD was conducted under the supervision of 2 company officials, one of them was an Indian and the other was a foreigner, the latter was taking rounds and noting down certain points about each and every candidate. After 2 minutes, we were given another topic to discuss. The topic was ‘Democracy and Social Networking.’ The discussion was mainly revolving around Anna Hazare and his motion against corruption. Again after 2 minutes we asked to interlink the two topics and speak on how we believe the two topics are related. This discussion again went on for few more minutes. Finally one of the officials pointed at me and asked me to conclude the topic. I did a good job of concluding. This, I believe was the prime reason for my selection in the next round. Round 2: The Mechanics Game This was the second round. There were several groups each comprising of 10 people. The group activity was carried out between two groups at a tme. Each group was supposed to make a car model from the available materials. We were initially shown the glimpses of the car models that could be produced from these materials, for 10 seconds. We were given 10 minutes to build the car. After 10 minutes both the teams were asked to stop and sell the car to the other team. The team to whom the car was being sold was free to ask any questions about the car and the selling team had to answer the questions convincingly. Throughout the activity the moderators were keeping a check on every person, assessing their involvement in the activity. Around 20 to 25 students qualified for the interview round. Interview: I felt the interview was a stress interview. The questions asked in the interviews were: Which is the one moment of your life that you would never like to be reminded of? What is that part of your life that you would want to permanently discard? The focus was mainly on to test the confidence of the person under pressure situation and not his technical knowledge. The interviewers also asked me to speak what I knew about Schlumberger. This is where I believe I made a terrible blunder. Firstly, Schlumberger had come to the campus to recruit on the very first day of the recruitment season hence there was not a lot of time left for company research and secondly, I did not believe that my resume could get shortlisted in the very first place, thus I did not find it necessary to do the company research. Hence, during the interviews when asked to speak on the company, I failed miserably. Any Specific Preparation: Do a proper and elaborate company research before appearing for the interviews.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:58:08 +0000
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