The ongoing recruitment exercise by Nigeria’s national oil corporation, the NNPC, is about to enter into the next phase, the interview stage.
In this article, our team have researched and compiled the areas where the questions usually come from.
- Introduction: Like almost any other interview, the first question will require you to introduce yourself. It will be a disaster if you cannot coherently talk about yourself.
2. Questions from your CV: The interviewers will have your CV with them on that day and that will be their first reference. Expect questions on what you do in your current job, why you have not been working if you are still unemployed, any gap on your CV, why you have been changing jobs, etc. Many questions will flow from your CV. Your response will no doubt lead to other questions.
3. Questions on your field or course of study: A few questions may come up on your course of study. You may be asked how you think your course is relevant to NNPC. The questions may even be technical one, like questions on mechanical engineering or accounting.
4. Questions on NNPC: This is a given. You will be asked questions on NNPC. You could be asked questions about NNPC subsidiaries, divisions, etc., and what they do in them. You will be asked where you think you fit most.
5. Questions about oil and gas industry: The interview may drift to questions about oil and gas industry in Nigeria. You may be asked to demonstrate your understanding of oil industry, the various divisions of the oil and gas industry – upstream, midstream, downstream. You may be asked about contemporary issues in the oil and gas industry, about PIB, local content, oil price, etc
6. Questions on current affairs: Current affairs are likely to surface again, especially those relating to oil industry. It could be name of petroleum minister or NNPC GMD or OPEC president, just anything.
7. General questions: You should also expect general questions like your salary information, why you want to join NNPC, where you see yourself in 5 years etc.
If you make it to this interview stage, you can enrol for JarusHub Mock NNPC Interview where our experts will thoroughly prepare you, do a mock interview for you based on the above and more, and give you feedback on areas you need to work on before the actual interview. We did it for DPR and NLNG recruitments in the past and a very good number of the candidates we coached were successful at the actual interview.
