The next phase of the NNPC recruitment process after the last CBT test sat for by over sixty thousands candidates across 94 centers, is the interview phase for those who will receive success email after the test.
Based on our research and chat with successful candidates in the last exercise, here is a proven way to prepare so as to be successful at the interview.
1, Know your CV very well: Know your CV inside out; don’t go and start stammering on what you put on your CV. Know the years, the dates, the duties you said you perform in your current employment. If there is a gap on your CV, get ready for question on it. Look at other things you think will almost naturally generate curiosity or interest from your CV.
2, Know NNPC very well: Go and read about NNPC and its subsidiaries and divisions; what each of them does; what part of them operate in the upstream, midstream or downstream divisions of the industry; capacities of refineries; current and immediate past GMD etc.
3, Revise the basics of your field: You are likely to be asked questions from your field or discipline, so you need to refresh some of those popular questions from your field. Revise the popular terminologies, basic formula, differences between key terms, how relevant your field is to NNPC, what division or subsidiary of NNPC your field will be most relevant and lots more.
4, Revise general knowledge and current affairs: If you are someone that has always kept abreast of news, this may not be a problem, but if you are not, this may be a small challenge. There could be questions on current affairs and general knowledge, especially oil related one. For example, you could be asked what you know about oil price determination, name of current or former NNPC GMD, name of current or former petroleum minister (or state minister). It could even be name of governor of your state, or senator representing your senatorial district. It could be almost anything. There are thousands of candidates to interview and there are thousands of questions – you never can tell which one you will be asked.
5, Experienced hires should read well about their field: While the questions to the graduate trainees are likely to be more generic, less field-based, more is expected from experienced hires, so you should more thorough drilling. So you need to be very familiar with the role you apply to, make a case for why you want to join NNPC, what value you can bring to NNPC and more.
6, Interview coaching will be helpful: The best way to assess your preparedness is get someone else to run you through the above and do a mock interview with you before the d-day. For a small fee, we do that at JarusHub. You sit down with us and we make a presentation to you sharing success tips with you, teach you about oil industry (our experts work in the industry), share with you tips on how to handle difficult questions and more; thereafter, collect your CV and conduct a panel interview with you as though we were NNPC panel interviewers, asking questions on your CV, role you applied for, about NNPC and general questions – questions likely to be asked on the day of the actual interview. We then give you feedback based on your performance, things you said right, things you should not have said and areas that need improvement. This is a great way to prepare ahead of the actual interview with NNPC. We did this for candidates invited for the 2015 NLNG and 2017 DPR recruitment interviews and most of the candidates we coached were successful. See more information here: NNPC Interview Coaching.
