6 Weatherford, Schlumberger and other top oil and gas companies Interview Tips

 It's been a long time since my last post and today I want to give some important tips that will booth the interviewers confidence to select you as the employee for top oil and gas companies such as Schlumberger, Weatherford etc. The tips is very easy and important and do not neglect any of them. These tips is very useful and I am sure you will get employed easily if you pay attention on each of them.

1. Impressive resume with 4-5 well written extra co-curricular activities. This will show your level of communication skills and how good you are dealing with other people. It will also show how you can manage a project, tasks or assignments given to you.
2. Be confident.
3. Show that you are able to help others. It is important not too ask many tedious and easy questions. Instead, answering other candidates questions and try to help them is better and will show your high level of knowledge.
4. Always smile and be friendly.
5. Impress them with good English. Of course English is the most important thing in any interview session, but honestly, as long as your English is not too poor and understandable, they will be interested to employ you.
6. Show your interest to join the company. They love candidates who are very attractive to the company and enthusiastic to join the company.

I hope those interview tips will help you getting job with top oil and gas companies especially in Malaysia. It may look simple and yet very important as I have experience about it.

My colleague at top oil and gas companies Baker Hughes and Schlumberger

My posting today is a bit about how an engineer's life at Baker Hughes. I got the information from one of my colleagues who is now working at Baker Hughes, one of top oil and gas companies in Malaysia.

His salary is RM2,500 per month plus allowances and overtime. But he worked around 18 hours a day.  I asked him how is he doing, whether he love working there. He said yes but when I asked about vacancies in the company, he told me that recently there were already two workers resigned from there because of pressure. Now you can see how hard it is to work there and it also applies to the other top oil and gas companies such as Schlumberger and Weatherford. Although, the salary is very good. The overtime pay is RM 15 per hour and sometimes, he  worked  8am to 10pm and start back at 8am the next day. If you want to read further about Weatherford, you can read my post here.

2 of my colleagues are currently working at Schlumberger was the award winner of 'Anugerah Diraja'. Schlumberger really looking for the best graduate produced by the university. If you apply for Schlumberger, you must compete with those genius, top and high quality students from well known local and overseas universities. Works in Baker Hughes or other oil and gas companies are not for faint heart. haha. When he told me that there are already people who cannot withstand the pressure working there, my desire to apply for the vacancies vanished in an instant haha....

So, for fresh graduates  who read this post and want to work with Baker Hughes, Schlumberger and other top oil and gas companies, my advice to you is you must have good spirit and big ambition and I think you will not have problem if you posses both attributes.