The Inaugural Interview

Alhamdulilah. All praises goes to Allah for giving me a chance to go for this interview. The company is PSA Singapore. Most people still thinks that PSA is a statutory board but actually it is fully privatise. In fact PSA is the first Multi-National Company in Singapore. Ok enough of PSA. The interview was for an operation executive job.

The interview was actually a task based assessment plus a perliminary interview. I was really stressed prior to the interview because it was my first time going for a real job interview. Search online for common questions, read up the company corporate information and even asked for tips from everyone. It was nerve spliting because I really wanted to get a job as soon as I graduate and this interview might just fulfil my wish. So it is crucial that I do well for this interview. It is also partly because I want to settle down after I graduate. And to achieve that, I need to get a job. Hehehe...

I really don't know how I did for the interview but if given a scale of 1 to 10, I would give myself 6. I know I didn't give the best and sensible answer for most of the questions but I also know I didn't gave any negative answer to the questions.

The task based assessment was a mad rush. We were given 15 minutes to plan for an operation after which we are given another 15 minutes to execute the operation.(I can say what the operation is because it is a copyrighted game by PSA) Everything happen in a rush. There four of us in the room with four assessors. As usual, there is one guy who is outspoken therefore he tried to be the leader and coordinate the task but I think he was too eager to execute the operation that he didn't reconfirmed the role that each of us need to play. We end up making a big loss. Nevertheless, I hope that my contribution to the operation do good on me for the assessment.

For the interview, guess what. None of the online common question came out during the interview. Waste of my time rehearsing for the common question. The questions asked was quite simple yet require some thinking before answering. And those of you who knows me, I always had trouble putting my thoughts into words. Therefore you can imagine me giving weird answers and keep on iterating on the same point again and again. The vocab that I used was also limited to just a few simple secondary school level vocabulary. Hahaha... But then, among the four interviewee, I was in the room the longest. Most of them took like 15mins while I took 20mins. Don't know why the rest of them use that as an indicator of whether you will be accepted or not. Well we will just see. The results will be end of March or early April.

Thank you to all those of you who have helped me for this interview in one way or another. InsyaAllah if I got this, you will be remembered... *hint* *hint*