I went for another interview and aptitude test yesterday at Astra International, Sunter, making that I have gone through a total of two job interviews, and three aptitude tests so far. There were tons of new experience for me yesterday that I’d love to share, but i’m not gonna post about it for now.

This time I really wish I could help my friends who are currently looking for a job by reviewing the questions that are usually asked by interviewer to fresh graduates and the sort of psychotest that you’ll face on when you’re at a selection process.

The psychotest / aptitude test will usually be divided into several steps :

-The first is the test regarding your IQ. The test will usually involve several of these tests : simple math; reading tables; making conclusion from statements according to certain premise whether it’s true, false, or unknown; guessing the missing part of a sequence of numbers; finding for the next pattern of a set of logically interconnected patterns; finding the same shapes when it’s rotated; memorizing words, and some other tests that I can’t remember.

- The test to determine your personality. It’ll usually involve drawing. In this test, you are asked to draw or complete a set of patterns which will be the manifestation of your personality. The drawing tests that I have gone through so far are :

1. Completing 8 patterns into a complete drawing, describe those pictures, and choose which one is the easiest, which one is the hardest to draw, which one you like the most, and which one you like the least.
2. Drawing a complete tree and usually you are not allowed to draw pines, cactus, beringins, and cotton trees. I was told that the tricks are to draw from the root, draw the parts as complete as you can, and uses strong lines when you draw. In the end, you’ll be asked
3. Drawing a complete person, and describe the person, his job, his age, his strengths and weaknesses. I have no clear idea but what is required, but I believe you should draw from the head, draw the person as complete as you can to describe his job, his hobby, his personality, his shortcomings in physical appearance (like tons of acnes), etc.

Now, it’s about the interview. There are several common questions that are asked to fresh graduates and those questions usually come from your Curriculum Vitae. So make sure you have certain base on what you write there.

1. What do you usually do at your free time?
2. What are your weaknesses and how you plan to overcome those weaknesses?
3. Can you tell me about your projects?
4. How about your organizational experience?
5. What are your dreams?
6. What makes you come to work here?
7. Where else have you applied besides this company?
8. What are your hobbies?
9. What do you think about your current GPA? Is it hard to achieve it?
10. So far, what do you think have been your greates achievement?
11. What do you think will be your greatest obstacles at work?
12. Why did you choose the uni and the department you’re currently working at?
13. What do you think about challenges and how do you plan to face them?

Those questions are all I can remember for now. Will add later if something cross my mind in the mean time.

I haven’t had any luck yet in my interviews and IMO I always messed up my interview badly. So my tips would be for the interview, answer honestly, don’t stutter, show them how smart, qualified, yet cooperative and nice you are. Impress them. Show them that you’re the gold that they should get. And I believe I failed in my two interviews. Must do better, next time .

For additonal tips, you can also look for job in several websites like :
1. www.jobstreet.com
2. www.jobsdb.com
3. www.binuscareer.com

There’ll also a job expo at Binus on 26-27th of Feb 2008. And unlike last year, the ticket will be Rp. 5000,- for one day, not two days like last year. You can also apply for some vacancies listed there before and after the job expo since some companies also accept online applications with the procedur listed on the booklet you’ll get when registering for Binus Job Expo 2008.

Hope this post can help you and maybe I’ll come with another thing later. Have a good day and Good luck for each of us in our own journey to find ourselves a job.