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      Graduate Program, Commercial Stream Interview

      May 13, 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Melbourne
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at bp (Melbourne) in May 2015

      Interview

      Relatively quick application process, but many assessments 1; Online application, series of basic questions as you fill it out "Why do you want to work for BP and the grad program" (apparently over 10,000 applicants) 2; Invitation to online assessment via TalentQ. This has 3 parts numerical (percentage and total cost calculations, also graph interpretation), verbal (what is the best description of ____ word, which work is spelt incorrectly) and logical (consisted of "whats next in the pattern" type of questions). I though i completely botched this part i got in the 'average' area and still went though to round 3. so it goes to show they're not always looking for academics. Practice was quite helpful, but questions in actual test were harder 3; Invitation to video interview; the HR company BP used accidentally broke privacy agreement and released names of all applicants who got to this stage. Consisted of 3 questions. You don't actually talk to a person, your computer records what you say. 15s to look at question, flicks to next page and records your answer for 2min. Questions were all behavioural. (apparently 109 people for in this stage) 4; Invitation for Assessment Centre, consisted of 2 activities, task 1 was a group 60m activity with a case study you all have to find the best solution whilst being assessed the whole time on how well you work together and communicate. Task 2 was individual activity, sat in a room by yourself with 1 assessor, another case study, 40m to read and prepare your recommendation then 10m to present findings to your assessor then 15m for them to ask questions. (28 people on the day for commercial stream) 5; on the same day get (you may) get invited back the next day for 1h30m 2-on-1 interview. 45m for behavioural questions 45m for technical where (AGAIN) another case study, you have 5m to look over and then 40m of the assessors asking you q's about it. Most annoying part as the questions had nothing to do with my background or technical stream, it was all finance/commerce q's 6; rejection or offer within 3 days, got rejected because i wasn't "didn't have enough financial depth" - I have never studied finance... so i feel they set the same questions for all in the commercial stream neglecting what stream you actually applied for or studied at uni.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Video int: "describe a time where you were the leader of a project" "How do you deal with conflict in a group" "how have you shown safety in the workplace" 2-on-1: "Who are our major competitors" "where do you see yourself in 5-10 years" "Tell me more about ____(took a hobby from my resume)" "what part of this program most interests you"
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