Stand Out from the Crowd Hiring process and how to nail it Suryo Sasono

Typical Process of Recruitment Objectives : “We look for a people that fit our organization’s needs” Initial Process : CV Screening c Technical and Psychological Test Interview c Medical Checkup

What makes your cv stands out? CV Screening Applicant : Target Hire Ratio = 200 : 1 What makes your cv stands out? Education background Your work experience Company Role What you do Organizational Experience Certification (for specific technical jobs) Your career progress “Missing year”

CV Screening : What Not to do Don’t.. ...put words of cliche

CV Screening : What Not to do Don’t.. ...try to use english when you are not comfortable

CV Screening : What Not to do Don’t.. c ...swamped your CV with every details of your life

CV Screening : What Not to do Don’t.. c c c ...decorate your CV too much

Interview Why we choose you? Can this person work with us? Candidate Interviewed : Target Hire Ratio = 3-5 : 1 Why we choose you? Can this person work with us?

Interview Questions 1. Standard Typical Question “Tell me about yourself” “Where do you see yourself in 5 years?” “Of all Companies, why do you apply here?” 2. Behavioral Question

Interview Questions 3. Situational / Case Question “Your client Paulson & Co. Inc. is an investment management firm specializing in global merger, event arbitrage and credit strategies. The firm mostly works in the arbitrage business, which is quite lucrative. In economics and finance, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.’ With its arbitrage strategy, the firm has no profitability problem and no competition. The company has 4 senior analysts, 3 junior analysts, and 1 admin. The activities in which they are involved include the initial stage, which comprises 20% of the work, the core stage which is 70% of the work, and the recommendation which is the remaining 10% of the work. These percentages are constant. How many junior analysts need to be added to free up capacity among the senior analysts, so that they can focus on selling additional work?”

... some case questions can be very random Interview Questions 3. Situational / Case Question ... some case questions can be very random “You are a second year MBA student with a strong appetite for entrepreneurship. The other day you walk into your apartment and you find a baby dinosaur in the corner of your room. What do you do?”

Interview Tips Tips! Come prepared for the question and the company (have you ever heard of Google alert?) Be honest, and confident on answering questions Your final step -- asking some questions is equally important as answering them

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