My first steps were three phone interviews. First two was from a staffing agency and the third was from a Schlumberger recruiter. Basic behavioral questions and some logical questions that i will list below. Then, I received information on traveling to the event and a homework assignment with about 15 questions on it. Nothing difficult, just basically making you research the company and a few questions about your goals and location and segment preferences. The more research and familiarization you do with the company and their segments the better you will be at this event.
I arrived at the conference the check in day, checked in, put my stuff in my room, and went to the lobby for dinner with a voucher you get at check in for a paid meal by Schlumberger. Afterwards i went back to my room, met my room mate, and talked and hung out. The event started at 7:30 the next morning. You will be in a conference room with everyone around a table shaped as a horseshoe. A recruiter will be seated at the center of the horseshoe and all the managers will be seated at the back of the room observing and taking notes. They will first introduce themselves one by one. Then everyone will go around the room introducing themselves one by one. They have questions on the board that they want you to answer in your introduction. The last question is they want you to tell everyone about a Macgyver moment you have had in your life. If you dont know what that means then they will explain before the introductions start. After introductions they go into explaining the 7 segments that they have and they will skip around to do which ones they are hiring for at the time first. They will tell you the pros and the cons, the pay structure, the scheduling, expectations, everything. ASK QUESTIONS, be engaged. At lunch time you will be fitted for coveralls and safety boots and after lunch they will take you to their training center and facility to see some tools, see tools being built, new tools coming out, and also take you on their on-campus oil rig. ASK QUESTIONS, be engaged. You will go back to the hotel and change back into clothes, in our case they said we could put whatever we wanted back on to come back to the conference room, some people came down in basketball shorts so that should tell you how relaxed the whole process got. They finished talking about the company and its benefits and its bad sides. They dont hide anything from you. After the presentations you will do a team building exercise. They will break you into groups, give you some junk to build something but wont tell you what to build. They will allow every group one question but be careful what and how you ask because they will try to get around giving you any real information. It was a few exercise though. The managers will be walking around to see who is giving input to their time and contributing. Make sure you are contributing, thats the main reason they do the exercise, to find the leaders and the team players. Dont try to take over though, give input and take in input. After that is all over, you will be sent to your room until dinner. The managers will spread out so try to sit at a table with a manager that is over the segment you want or at least knows about the segment you want. There will be alcohol, have fun but dont drink more than you can handle, its still a interview. They passed out two pieces of paper at dinner, one had all the segments, and when and where they were hiring for them. If you dont see a segment you like has a open position, dont panic. If they like you they will let you wait until a spot opens up. The other piece of paper is a sheet where you write what segment you want, you get to pick 4. And what location you want, you get to pick 3 per segment. Dont put a segment or location that you wouldnt want, this is so they place you where you want to be. The next morning you will have a 2 on 1 interview. Depending on how well the managers got to know you the first day will influence how long your interview is. Mine was 15 minutes, the two people before me had 45 minute interviews. They didnt ask me much. Just where i wanted to go, why i wanted to go there, what i wanted to do, and if i had any concerns about the field work they exlained in the presentations. After that i checked out and drove back home.
Offer Letter came 7 days later, it will vary, my room mate got his 5 days later. So be patient.
