Interview experience...

Hai though not feeling very well, manage to drag myself to the interview... N to me, the interview is very funny... Perhaps it's been sometime since I last been to an interview, sort of lost touch with the tecniques??? U can judge n comment after reading my experience :-D

The interview started around 2.05pm with only 1 interviewer... N the interviewer is consider one of the higher ranked in the Asia Pacific region (Spore is the base for the region)... So the first question to me was about how much I know about the company... Well, I gave a brief account of what I knew and so he started to explain more about the company and industry... Normally, most interviews I attended will prefer asking the interviewee to talk abt themselves first before the company start going into details abt the job, so as to get a better idea abt the candidate... The guy did the reverse... He went into details abt the job and career development path before I was asked to intro abt myself. After that, I was asked to do a brief intro, which not much questions were raised abt my past experience n education, nor any proof of documents or identification was requested...

After that, some generic questions were raised such as what type of work environment do I like, is travelling around fine with me and how many years do I think that a promotion is possible in the company etc... So far so good, up until when I mentioned abt last minute work and stress induced by it... It is by far, considered the only disagreeable point that we had... N the funny things is, I expect that more or less, a full-stop had been made to that issue since disagreeability was laid clearly out... But well, surprise surprise... He actually start to explain about the last minute and stress associated with the position!!! Umm... I expect that there is no need for the company to explain so much to a candidate so I was a little stunned... Start to sound a little "fishy" to me now...

Den after that, renumeration package was discussed... I was asked abt my current package and was also informed abt the general package that the company offers... Not as good as my current package but the career development path made up for the differences... Towards the end of the interview, as a form of courtesy, I asked how would he described a suitable candidate for the job since he more or less covered everything that I need to know for the moment... After answering that question, I was asked if I think if I possessed the qualities that the company is looking for... After my ans, I was informed that they still have some candidates to interview and the result will be out by early next wk, no matter good or bad news, i will stil get a call...

N a funny question was asked... Did I apply for any other positions or arranged for other interviews... After I answered "yes", den he said that it is fair enough... Well, to me, that is a redundant question... Under normal circumstances, even if there r no other applications for other jobs or interviews lined up, most ppl will still ans "yes" hahaha...

So to sum up the interview, I tink they are a little desperate in looking for someone to fill the position... Or perhaps the interviewer simply had a different style... End up, we seem to be like convincing each other of something... I tried to convince him my suitability to the job while he tried to convince me tat the last minute thing is not as bad as I think... Well... perhaps to the company, I am considered a potential candidate but since we have our differences and disagreeable point, I won't be holding high hopes...

Perhaps you can drop me some after thoughts after you read it... Btw, the interview lasted for 30min only... I was pretty surprised about the bulk of information we manage to share during this period of time though ;-)