Standard Chartered bank 2012.--International Graduate Programme

It would be great if we could get hold of dis info,but I must confess if na Indian accent den we re in deep shit ,bcos dey no fit speak well.

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Originally Posted by ochers

ochers is just my nickname...u can d interview questions here if u want it public...abi make i buzz u on ur email?...who can give me a sample of dis interview question WHY WHOLESALE BANKING...@ighoeve any idea on how d interviewers number will be like?

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the people that were interviewed last week, last month and so on said they had just one interviewer..so, i guess u should expect one clueless HR officer asking you why this and why that

why wholesale banking is similar to why investment banking....for a well structured answer to the latter, please listen to http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/how-to-tell-your-story-investment-banking-interviews

Below's a list of the most recent SCB's IGP interview questions compiled by several selfless peeps who were recently phone-interviewed by SCB. May God bless these peeps for taking the stress to write down the questions. May their ways be pure, Amen!

I know that the questions are haphazardly typed and not correctly grouped into different sections (it's my fault, I was in a haste). I therefore regret any inconvenience this could cause any reader..

On a positive note, I am 95% sure that 100% of these questions will be repeated in your various interviews with SCB for the IGP. But forum members, kindly do the house a favour by letting us know whether these questions were helpful and what should be added.

Enjoy the reading!

Yours truly,
Ighoeve, SM.

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Tell me about a time you had to develop relationships with others.
What are you learning that will help you in your work with us?
What are your three main strengths?
Tell me about your academic and social life.
What are the most important things to you in a job?
How would your friends describe you?
What is unique about Standard Chartered Bank?
What was the bank’s closing stock price yesterday (this one go kill you if u no no am)? How many exchanges is the bank listed?
Tell us how you have dealt with people with different cultures? What was your strategy?
What challenges are banks facing and how do these challenges affect SCB moving forward?
What risks does SCB face? How can these risks be mitigated?
Where do you see SCB in five years time? Where do you see yourself in five years time? Where do you see yourself in SCB five years from now?
In the next five years, what should standard chartered do to grow as a company?
Why IGP? Why SCB? What are our footprints?
Do you have any experience communicating/dealing with people on an international basis?
An example when you persevered through a struggle?
An example when you helped somebody else overcome a struggle
Tell me something about ur self
Why SCB and not its competitors? What do you know about the program?
Why do you want to apply for this program?
How is the bank performing in your country?
What is the biggest risk banks are facing?
Where does Standard Chartered Bank earn most of its revenue?
What are your strengths? How do you think your strength will help SCB?
Tell a time when you handled a project? How did you manage am?
How do you handle different people?
What are the key markets for Standard Chartered Bank?
Give a situation where you handled difficult people? How did you handle it?
How would Current Events affect our Performance, Standard Chartered Bank’s Performance?
If you were to give somebody a piece of advice, what is most important when working with different, diverse people?
Tell me about a situation where you communication something clearly to people
Tell me about a situation when you had to persuade or influence somebody to achieve your goal. Where you demonstrated Leadership. Motivated People to take Action. Convince people to Share your Views.
Tell me about a situation when you had to work with a difficult person—Team Work Disagreement--- A time when you have overcome Opposing View to achieve an objective
Tell me about a time when you had to Approach a Complex Piece of Work and How did you do it? Give an example of a time when you had to overcome difficulties or challenges to be successful and how did you do it?
Are you entrepreneurial?
Give an example of how you worked on a Team Work?
What attracts you to a career in this industry?
Why did you select your university?
What courses have you liked most?
Describe a situation in which it was difficult to obtain information
you needed, and how you managed to be successful.
Describe an instance in which you had a Significant Impact on a Situation
Tell me a time when you improved something.
Negotiating
Examples of making a mistake
What gets you moving when you are down and out?
When you successfully persuaded a group of people or a team to agree with you.
A time when you were successful
A time you were Unsuccessful/Failed to achieve something
A problem that you resolved
A conflict that you resolved
Communication, when you had to give a Presentation to a group of people
What you have done in the past?
Skills gained from your previous experience?
CAREER GOALS
Why should we hire you to join the IGP? Tell us about Your dark weaknesses.. Your greatest achievement and-----I forgot the last one.

Final section, any question for the interviewer? My advice: do not ask 'will i qualify for the second round?' Just do your best to connect with the interviewer, but don't suck up. I beg you!

@ighoeve... thanks man i really appreciate ur help...so any idea on how d interviewers number would look like?

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Originally Posted by ighoeve

oga ochers, ur username sounds like Orisha to me. are u a demi god wey people dey worship? anyway,to you and others who have been invited for the phone thingy, i am happy to let you all know that i instructed somebody to jot down all the questions asked during his or her igp interview. i have these questions and i am willing to dash them to somebody, preferably an active forum member or many active forum members.

i am sure you all might have been hinted on these questions, otherwise let me know the medium through which the questions should be passed down...by the way, i am not too sure, but your interviewer should be an Indian chick with one kind thick ugly accent that made my friend go mad..hahahahah..so beware of the accent..but no tell am say her accent ugly and bad o..dem reject my pardi because of that.yepa..the guy mouth too big, but him no send.

at least those who long did their interviews, but did not want the interview questions to be made public can now hit their heads on the wall or get me arrested or fly down here and fight me or generally throw stones or ......hahahahahah.

the goal is to get at least one forum member into the igp; the forum member wwould in return offer some first hand, classified and priceless advice to other people who also want the join the igp. it is like a win win situation..hahaha

Yours truly
Ighoeve

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ehm ighoeve, you can as well upload the interview questions here for your boys to download/practice. I aslo need the online test questions. Thanks. yours truely, chinex.

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Originally Posted by ochers

@ighoeve... thanks man i really appreciate ur help...so any idea on how d interviewers number would look like?

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hey, i don't get u.. do u mean the interviewer's phone number or the number of interviewers? if the interviewer's phone number, then it is gonna show unknown number or private number 01191. that was what i was told by people who had their phone interviews some weeks ago. the number of interviewers, on the other hand, should be 1; for example, one clueless HR officer using an ugly accent to ask u the above questions . again, i got this info from people who interviewed a few weeks ago.

i hope my response now clears the air.

Hahaha lol,I can't belive dis ,all in d name of job.them dey vex.u self try ,how U take remember all dis,well sha all won't b asked frm 1 person.

yep very clear

Igheove u too much

I saw this on another thread so guys be kiafull.....

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.The phone interview is used to make sure that you are who you say you are. That is, I wouldn't advise on being creative during the Talent Assessment. I know that you may want to appear the very best candidate but unless you have a astonishing memory, chances are that during the first interview discrepancies will appear between the way you, talk, behave, answer questions, and the question content in itself that there is a high likelihood that you will be dropped.

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Here are some few tips from our possible IGP mates but from diff country. Enjoy

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The call arrived 10 minutes later than scheduled. Experiences of other interviewees make me think SCB gives calls quite on time.

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5. How to make change in a team?
6. If you find some improvements for a team as a newbie, what would you do?
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The interviewer said this is the second last round interview, which means ONLY one last round panel interview to go? (Good news though I doub a bit);H;BeDRN'Y:X
The interviewer assured me the recruiting would very possibly finish before Spring Festival.o"H+O/VL+V

Notes: At this stage, the atomosphere becomes better when the interviewer starts really conversing with you, not just questionning. You can make use of this time asking questions you really want answers to.

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1. Don't know how the interviews will be used to assess you? Don't think it will be analyzed scientifically in detail. It's possible that the interviewer will give you a score during or right after the interview. Or other HR will be involved in the scoring process as well to counterbalance the individual biases. 8P.`%@E;Ox)pf

2. Overall the interviewing session feels like the IELTS speaking session. The system (interviewer here) will give you a question. And you are free to go ever afterwards. So prepare for this kind of freedom, it's bit tense when not a single response comes from the interviewer but you be composed.V

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This reminded me of the accent ugh eve mentioned

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Don't expect the interview speak awesome English...they speak fluent and clearly, but bit rigidly. May I say it's good for our self-confidence or bad since most of the cases we speak better English when others show their mastery of the language.

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Finally don't try this

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Rosa, I can't agree more. One more thing, I also asked why SCB doesn't allow applicant to upload their resumes in the application. That's when I interview him back, and he seemed surprised and gave me a answer totally off point. I could feel he was quite nervous even on this end of line. This made me quite relaxed and wanna laugh...

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found this in glassdoor. my own interview na wednesday dis week will post the questions and answers here when i'm done
Interviewed Jun 2011 (took 4+ weeks)

1. Online application: numerical & personality tests, looking for leadership, teamwork, flexibility, innovation, etc.

2. Three essays (max 250 words each): Opportunities & challenges faced by SCB? What energise you? Anything else you want to tell?

3. First interview with HR (phone, maybe because I'm abroad); 1 hr: all behavioral questions like tell abt a time when you lead a team, work with diverse ppl, face difficulty working in a team, innovate sth to solve a problem, when sth turn out not as you expected, etc. Why SCB IG? Why wholesale banking? Strengths & weaknesses?

4. Presentation to and interview with a senior HR & a senior mgt (via Skype); 1 hr: choose 1 out of 3 given presentation topics (i chose 'challenges' coz it's the same as the essay, cant remember the other 2 topics), have 45 mins to prepare the presentation (write on A4, not in powerpoint), make 15 mins presentation..then the 2 interviewers will interview about the presentation, interest in the program, education and even family background...and 'if you were to lauch a new product/service next year, what would you launch?'

5. Panel interview with 2 wholesale banking heads; 30 mins: Introduce yourself, talk abt master's degree..which course you like/dont like & why, your strengths & weaknesses, which role you think you can do best i.e. front/middle/back office

Sorry guys this came late. Have bn away for some time

My phone interview experience.

Call came in exactly 10.45am, interviewer had Asian accent and was very friendly and courteous. Introduced herself and askd the following questions
- Tell me about your degree.
- Do you have a postgraduate degree
- What languages other than english do u speak.
- Tell me about a time you faced a challenge, Actions you took and outcome.
- Tell me about a time you had to plan an event, role played and outcome.
- Tell me about a time you had to develop relationships with others from different background.
- Tell me about the program.
- If you given a chance to select from multiple job offers, what criterion would you consider.

The interview lasted for one hour.
My advice is "NO" straight yes or no response. Be prepared to discuss in details particularly the competency based questions. Ensure you notify the interview @ the end of each response. Try not to be so fast as the interviewer takes notes and records the interview to be reviewed at a later time.

Got feedback already(one working day)on the success @ the assessment the mail reads;

Dear XXXX

We are pleased to inform you that you were successful in your recent assessment and you will now progress to the next stage of our selection process.

We will be contacting you via email in due course with details of the next steps.

For regular updates, please check the communication centre through your account on Standard Chartered Bank - Careers.

Regards

Resourcing Team
Standard Chartered Bank

Dear all,

Some should please advise me on what to do. On Tuesday, I received a mail telling me that my application is still under further consideration. On Thursday, I received another mail inviting me for a first round assessment. The mail still went ahead and advised me to to Schedule my First Round Assessment. However, when I logged in and clicked on the link, I saw this message displayed ... Unfortunately there are currently no interview slots available. Please continue to check this page to see if any interview slots become available.

I have been checking the page everyday since then and no interview slots are available. Can someone please advise me on what next steps to take? Thank you all!

Go to the FAQ section n click on assessment then follow the steps

Thanks Kazal,

The FAQ suggested that I send a mail to [email protected] and I did just that. So I will await for their reponse. Did anyone else out there have this issue too?

I have the same challenge too and i have already sent an email to them

I just had my phone interview yesterday by 10:45 am. The call was spot on and the guy on the other end of the phone spoke pretty good english, his voice was clear (thank God for good network) and he had a tinge of Indian in his accent.
He told me the interview would take between 45 minutes to an hour.
Started by getting to know me, just to see if i was the actual person who applied for the IGP position, and this took about 30 min.
then he proceeded to the competency based questions.
Most of the questions were similar to that posted by Ighoeve and believe it or not by the time he was done, we had spent a gruesome 2hrs of consistent drilling. He went on and on about the current market situations, volatility, banking, restoring customer confidence, the down-slide in the credit system since the recession of 2008/2009, the road to recovery, and what i believe is a road map to recovery.
HAAAAAAA!!! Me I be engineer o!!! dy/dx, integration, and moment of inertia no dey ascertain market conditions and volatility o.
But all in all t'was good. even though I kept looking at my watch and wondering when the bloke would end the call.
This was just my experience, I guess its differs with people.

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Originally Posted by magano4life

I just had my phone interview yesterday by 10:45 am. The call was spot on and the guy on the other end of the phone spoke pretty good english, his voice was clear (thank God for good network) and he had a tinge of Indian in his accent.
He told me the interview would take between 45 minutes to an hour.
Started by getting to know me, just to see if i was the actual person who applied for the IGP position, and this took about 30 min.
then he proceeded to the competency based questions.
Most of the questions were similar to that posted by Ighoeve and believe it or not by the time he was done, we had spent a gruesome 2hrs of consistent drilling. He went on and on about the current market situations, volatility, banking, restoring customer confidence, the down-slide in the credit system since the recession of 2008/2009, the road to recovery, and what i believe is a road map to recovery.
HAAAAAAA!!! Me I be engineer o!!! dy/dx, integration, and moment of inertia no dey ascertain market conditions and volatility o.
But all in all t'was good. even though I kept looking at my watch and wondering when the bloke would end the call.
This was just my experience, I guess its differs with people.

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congrats. good to also know that u found those questions helpful. please add the news ones u were asked to them.

please help, this is their response to my email about the unavailability of interview slots
what should i do next cos i have already sent a mail to the said email address provided below and the still sent me this same email.


Dear Candidate,

If you have received an invitation for an interview, group debate or an assessment centre but, when you log into the application centre there is no time or date available to book your assessment, please follow the instructions below.

First of all, please make sure that when you log into the application centre your status is ?Invite to first assessment?, ?Invite to second assessment?, or relevant status. Please click on the left-hand navigation bar to book the assessment. If there is no time and date to book your assessment, or it reads ?There are currently no interview slots available?, you should directly inform the Resourcing Manager who invited you to the assessment. You should find their email address in the correspondence which has been sent to you in the application centre (the application centre is where you applied originally). If you do not have the Resourcing Manager?s contact details, email [email protected] and explain the issue you are facing. Please give as much relevant information as you can as this will enable us to deal with your query quickly and effectively. Make sure you fully identify yourself by supplying us with your full name as well as the programme and country that you have applied to. We will then forward your email to the relevant Resourcing Manager, who will contact you in due course.

Kind Regards,
Resourcing Team
Standard Chartered
Please Note: This message was automatically generated, please do not respond to this email.
When responding to this email, please perform a reply with history so that the following conversational identifier "[THREAD_ID:1219979]" is included in your response.

Dear Ighoeve,

please what steps should i take now

Thank you very much for all your efforts
God Bless you.

pls house,is the consumer bank fast track programme only for undergraduate or graduate?thanks

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Originally Posted by doreesy4k

Dear Ighoeve,

please what steps should i take now

Thank you very much for all your efforts
God Bless you.

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hey, sorry i regret my late response. i have been too busy. i am struggling to write this sef-

ask forum members who are in possession of it to give it to you. the ones i gave you yesterday are the only ones i have.

good luck

Pls calm down,they will give U a time slot just keep checking.someone faced wit d same problem just got one dis afternoon since last Friday.

can any1 helpme with the link for numerical reasoning?

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Originally Posted by royalbanner

can any1 helpme with the link for numerical reasoning?

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check ur inbox!

Thanks. But the Numerical Reasoning Is no longer opening. pls i really need help

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Originally Posted by AAsh

check ur inbox!

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I had my phone interview 2day...it was just wat charleybobo said though d lady emphasised more on WHATS D BIGGEST RISK FACING BANKS and TELL ME ABT A PROJECT YOU EXECUTED(give enough details and also talk slowly)...there was alot of network interference, she called me 6times wit 2 different numbers and i could hardly get a full sentence from her.

Wat was ur ans for d biggest risk? @ochers

Thanks Kazal,

I finally got the link to the telephone interview and I was successful in scheduling a date and time for telephone interview. It seems that it takes a week from the time you are invited to schedule to the time the actual slots are available. I will now start preparing for the telephone interview. Thank you all for your support.

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Originally Posted by ochers

I had my phone interview 2day...it was just wat charleybobo said though d lady emphasised more on WHATS D BIGGEST RISK FACING BANKS and TELL ME ABT A PROJECT YOU EXECUTED(give enough details and also talk slowly)...there was alot of network interference, she called me 6times wit 2 different numbers and i could hardly get a full sentence from her.

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congrats on concluding your interview with scb. hope u got a positive news afterwards.

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Originally Posted by thebaft

Thanks Kazal,

I finally got the link to the telephone interview and I was successful in scheduling a date and time for telephone interview. It seems that it takes a week from the time you are invited to schedule to the time the actual slots are available. I will now start preparing for the telephone interview. Thank you all for your support.

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yes, go and prepare well. there are many questions with which you can do that.

I also did the interview lot of network interference she called back like 8 times u can imagine what droped calls can do to an already nervous interview. Both my mtn and etisalat where ups. Finally I got the regret mail..

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Originally Posted by BIGER BOY

I also did the interview lot of network interference she called back like 8 times u can imagine what droped calls can do to an already nervous interview. Both my mtn and etisalat where ups. Finally I got the regret mail..

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it is their loss; upwards and onward for u!

Thanks bro

mehn i'm out of d SCB race...i'm kinda wondering if they did not notice d network interference

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Originally Posted by kazal

Wat was ur ans for d biggest risk? @ochers

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credit risk...still google for more answers cos some website said its regulatory risk...get 2 know more abt ur answer cos u ve 2 explain y u feel dats d biggest risk facing banks

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Originally Posted by BIGER BOY

Thanks bro

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BIGER BOY, what's up with the trading thingy? Did you get the test links? Well, the test was the usual SHL and deadline for sitting it was last week. The interview has now been scheduled to take place in The Hague/Amsterdam in the Netherlands or Chicago in the US.

@ Ochers

I am sure the network problems during the phone interview caused all these negative news. No wahala sha.

I havent heard anything from them, perhaps it's due to my location. Although my status still reads submitted, I'll just want n see