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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Aberdeen, Scotland (United Kingdom) (took 2 days)

Final round assessment centre consisted of a meal with other applicant and current employees on the first day. Then the second day, we had 5 different exercises. 2 of them were done in groups of 4, 1 individual presentation, 1 role-play exercise done in a pair, and finally an individual exercise which was a self-reflection.

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Exercise 1: Group of 4. We had to decide on new location for drilling, during the time we had the option of buying new information

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Exercise 2: split into pairs and had a chance to interview an 'expert' about what type of technologies were appropriate. Then met up with the other pair and decided on the type of rig

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Exercise 3: Individual presentation about whether the company should sell some of its refinery, or expand into new area, or just maintain current facility

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Exercise 4: Had to decide what to do with some excess natural gas we had. We had news bulletins which affected our choice half way through

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Exercise 5: one on one interview about how we felt the day went and how we felt we performed

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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 3 weeks)

Interview started with a basic phone interview. The 1:1 interview contained questions from the resume and technical questions. Be ready to answer conceptual questions related to the industry. They are looking for people who work great in Team settings.