Interview Session with RHB

Date: September 2011
Venue: RHB Centre, Jalan Tun Razak.

Okkay, last month I went for an interview session at RHB Centre at Jalan Tun Razak. It is for Management Associate Program. A special program that gives you an opportunity to climb the corporate ladder faster than normal employee and to train to become Top Management of RHB (I just quote it from the website)


How I managed to get into the interview?
I went to Graduan Career Fair with my bff, Mimie
When I arrived there, its too late already (perlu ke nak terkejut?)
Almost every both dah tutup but tiba2 i nampak this one lady officer smiled at me, then we have a short conversation for a while.
Cut it short, I passed my resume to her.


What happened after that?
In early of September, I received an email from RHB stating that I have been shortlisted as one of the candidate (Yeay!)
Tetapi, ku sangka hujan hingga ke petang
Malangnya, ada Numerical test. Numerical test adalah sebuah is a kind of mental torture and physical abuse for a law student like me (tapi ada jer law student yang pandai mengira)
Ramai je yang all-rounder unlike me
Sob...Sob...Sob...
Itulah, dulu rajin sangat ponteng Math class
Buat2 busy la konon.
In the invitation email, they mentioned that I'll have to face several stages i.e. Numerical Test, English Test and IQ & Personality Test.
If u managed to pass all of it, they will invite you to the Interview Session with the HR officer


During the interview session
I arrived on the dot (Clap...Clap...)
and I was like OMG, there's a lot of other candidates
*Gulp*
So, perlu ke i pulang dengan kesedihan? Ohhh tidak...
Rugi my cab fare RM 21.00 kot
Jadi i pun meneruskan langkah dengan rasa kecuakan langit ketujuh
So, here's the the deal... I pun buatlah Numerical Test dengan penuh passionate
Menekan butang calculator dengan gigihnya walaupun tak tau apa yang ditekan
Habis je Numerical Test, terus dapat English Test
Aha.. this one is definitely better
Most of the articles about corporate thingy
So, ada la knowledge sikit2 during chambering
Then, IQ & Personality Test...
Yang nie, jujur sajalah =)
Kemudian, I pun keluar la dengan penuh blur sekali
Sempatlah have a conversation with another candidate
I forgot her name already but she is a graduate from Monash and I'm quite surprised when she told me she's from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Tiba-tiba...
Jeng...Jeng...
Nama I dipanggil untuk next stage. Okkay, rasa macam tak percaya
and alhamdullilah, yang interview I tu is the same officer yang borak dengan I during Graduan Career Fair

Did I manage to get into the next stage?
I was so terkejut when the officer straight away told me that I'm qualified to the next stage
She asked me to make a proper consideration whether I want to join Investment or Audit & Risk Management
OMG, where else can u find officer sebaik tu?
Siap bagi i buat pilihan lagi okkay.
But final stage is the hardest part, you need to convince the Top Management to accept you to become part of them
Well if they asked you like "Why do you want to be an investment banker?"
You cannot simply said "Ohh, I find it very sexy and they pay you bonus handsomely"
You better kill yourself rather than giving that kind of answer.
Lol

Final Stage
Okkay, I sampai 5 minit lambat
Kalau awal tu, bukan i la kan.
Tapi... macam takda orang je
I dah cuak, ingatkan dah tersilap hari
Luckily, I was right.
They locked all the final candidates in several rooms.
Dan rupa2nya diorang semua datang since pukul 10 pagi sebab diorang ada another session.
An Analytical & Communication test, tapi I dengan jayanya berjaya skip that test sebab I mana boleh keluar office lama2 sangat.
Nanti master i bising okkay
Then, here comes the scariest part of all.
A face to face interview session with Top Management
*gulp*
To cut it short, the last assesment was so fun
The interviewers were being so nice to me eventhough I keep telling them that I'm not good in numbering.
My happiest moment was when they told me that they were impressed with my determination to pursue in banking & financial industry.
At first they thought that salary is the main issue why I want to jump from Legal Fraternity but when I told them about my monthly earning, they were quite shocked actually.
It was a very laid back interview actually.
Before I went back, they told me that they will contact me within 2 weeks.
Ohhh no, the cliche answer, confirm laaa tak dapat.

2 weeks later;
When I was busy doing my work at the office, tiba2 ada this one private number called me.
It was from the RHB HR office. The officer told me that I was selected for the program
Yeay =)
Tapi, I need to commence my duty on 2nd October
Owh, masa tu belum habis chambering lagi
So eventually, I'm stuck between two options, to finish my chambering or to join RHB.
But, alhamdullilah RHB is more than willing to wait for me until I finish my chambering
I'm so happy with their kind consideration

Lastly, I just wanna say
Thank you Allah =)

"Ingatlah selagi mana kita percaya yang rezeki itu milik Allah, dan manusia hanya perantara, jalan kita pasti dipermudahkan olehNya"