I had lunch with G, an ex-intern student from my office today.. he had a project due tomorrow and one of the tasks was to interview an executive / manager in a company, so he chose me.. Yesterday he had called me for help and i had agreed..
We met at the lobby around 1230pm and i was shocked to see a whole group of 5 people sitting there with him.. apparently those were his project mates.. 2 were locals, the rest were from China. I was under the impression all along that it would just be him doing the interview.. Anyway, after i recovered from the shock, we proceeded to MacDonald's for lunch and to do the interview.. i had a craving for french fries so..
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As with most interviews, they had a list of structured questions to ask me.. most of the questions seemed to focus around the product / service that my company sells.. so i told him he should have chosen a Sales person to interview instead.. he told me it was a human resource module. Well, to me, the questions sounded more Marketing than Human Resource.. anyway, i was asked some boring questions on the company's core values... i told him flawless execution and operational excellence... he also asked things like if i felt there will be a future for LPG, why i think our customers choose our brand over our competitors.. blah blah. Actually, i wasn't sure if i was supposed to just let them interview me like that.. but i was rather careful what i said in case it gets published somewhere and our Public Affairs sees it and then i get sacked.. that's the thing about this company.. so many controls and procedures that sometimes i get paranoid ...
After lunch, we proceeded back to the office.. they had to take a picture with me with the company logo.. G had tried to ask the reception on level 6 if he could take the picture there, but i guess the person in charge there decided to give attitude, so he told G that he had to seek approval from their facilities head and all that jazz. So in the end, i took them to Level 7 (random choice) and we took the photo by the company signage beside the lift...
So.. my photo will appear in some powerpoint presentation in NTU tomorrow morning.. i asked them to send me the presentation tonight, but until now haven't receive.. sigh.. hopefully they didn't mis-represent me.. How did i get myself in this ?? now i can't stop thinking about it.. >_<
We met at the lobby around 1230pm and i was shocked to see a whole group of 5 people sitting there with him.. apparently those were his project mates.. 2 were locals, the rest were from China. I was under the impression all along that it would just be him doing the interview.. Anyway, after i recovered from the shock, we proceeded to MacDonald's for lunch and to do the interview.. i had a craving for french fries so..
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As with most interviews, they had a list of structured questions to ask me.. most of the questions seemed to focus around the product / service that my company sells.. so i told him he should have chosen a Sales person to interview instead.. he told me it was a human resource module. Well, to me, the questions sounded more Marketing than Human Resource.. anyway, i was asked some boring questions on the company's core values... i told him flawless execution and operational excellence... he also asked things like if i felt there will be a future for LPG, why i think our customers choose our brand over our competitors.. blah blah. Actually, i wasn't sure if i was supposed to just let them interview me like that.. but i was rather careful what i said in case it gets published somewhere and our Public Affairs sees it and then i get sacked.. that's the thing about this company.. so many controls and procedures that sometimes i get paranoid ...
After lunch, we proceeded back to the office.. they had to take a picture with me with the company logo.. G had tried to ask the reception on level 6 if he could take the picture there, but i guess the person in charge there decided to give attitude, so he told G that he had to seek approval from their facilities head and all that jazz. So in the end, i took them to Level 7 (random choice) and we took the photo by the company signage beside the lift...
So.. my photo will appear in some powerpoint presentation in NTU tomorrow morning.. i asked them to send me the presentation tonight, but until now haven't receive.. sigh.. hopefully they didn't mis-represent me.. How did i get myself in this ?? now i can't stop thinking about it.. >_<
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