Talent Scounting

8 February 2010, the first time i attended a very professional job's interview in my life. Hmm, may be i should said it was an extraordinary talent scouting instead of 'interview'. That was the first time in my life where i was been forced to think non stop in the short period of few hours. For the past 24 years, i never came to the situation where i need to think using my brain that much in such short period of time.

It was a scholarship program organized by a big company and it was offered to local fresh graduates. In my class, less than 10 percent of the coursemates has applied and been selected for the final interview. And very lucky in a way, i was the first person to be interviewed. Reached there, with no feeling at all and without preparation, i stepped into the company door. I met the HR officer-in-charge, she told me that it is not an ordinary interview, it was actually a talent scouting and i will be interviewed by 2 high level executives, the company's HR director and CEO. "Ohh, ok", a simple respond i gave the officer. Still no feeling at all, just hope that i can end the interview faster because i was starving since i went there directly after lecture classes.

Firstly, i met the HR director, first impression i already knew that i will have a "happy" time dealing with his "interesting" questions. At first i managed to answered his question clearly and calmly, but slowly his question became harder to answer. Just as expected, his question cannot be answered correctly no matter how i try to turn the point. I was been given pressure and pressure, at the end, i start cannot answer his question. His question seems very tricky, because no matter i answer 'yes' or i answer 'no', and gave him the reason, the answer would not be truely correct. But i was not that lazy to think at that time, i twisted my mind and gave him an answer that is not the answer to his question, but the answer will fulfill the requirement of the question in indirect way. I think my answer impressed him in some points, so he decided to end the interview session. I came out from the room and rest for awhile, and i'm hungry. Haha..

I calm down my mind and met the CFO. This part of interview althought didn't work as well as i hoped, but at least much better than the interview with the HR director. I did managed to answer the CFO question with his expected point. This part of interview, at least i can score more than 80% out of 100%, i think. Hmm, one thing i realized from the interview was that they hope to seek for future managerial level employee, not the ordinary type of engineer. More indirect thing observed from the interview is that they hope to look for people that they can see things a CFO can see, a person who can see through the eyes of an 50 year-old successful guy eyes, standing tall in the world. Wow, what a challenging task for fresh graduates.

After the interview session, the officer asked me to stay until all the candidates done the interview as they will give us a simple presentation after that. They asked me to online at their computer lab while waiting. More important thing is, i'm on diet...again...haha, good to help me keep fit (actually they got cafeteria, but i forgotten about it)...