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My Experience.

I started my interview say around 9:50pm or so. I entered, greeted and sat. I was asked to introduce myself, I did. Mr Tonye even told me to clap for myself. I was already feeling like a Chief. It was time to pick a number from the basket. Of all the numbers my hand could pick, it was freaking number 9 . The topic was "Love is not a feeling but a business". I could argue for or against.

I was blank, I kid not. I asked for some seconds to gather my thoughts. Is it not when you have thoughts that you can gather them ? My head, brain and all its components decided to betray me at the last minute. I attempted arguing for. I mumbled one two-line poem, and fuel finished.

The Board tried all they could to juggle my head. They told me to replace the love with like. They said I should replace like with the person I like. They said I should scream out (one of them helped me scream but I couldn't scream 'cause I really can't consciously). One of them used Valentine to see if it could work. They even sang for me Lagbaja's Wherever You Go. Ladies and Gentlemen, my brain was just being silly.

I now decided to argue against. I said some stuff I can't even remember. Mr Tonye had to thank me for my time . I felt I didn't do well and had to apologise (whether that was a wrong move or not, I know not).

All in all, I really liked the Board. They made me feel super comfortable. They had nice, welcoming expressions on their faces; the kind that is interested in what you have to say. They were some young people there; people who are in their thirties, some forties, two or three in their fifties.

Modified:
Till now, I still can't conjure up what I would have said. I am not going to blame my head again. If you have any idea of what I could have said, kindly tell.

Noel001:
Okay....now I have to ask.... GAP and GAAP candidates ....how did u see tonights interview?...mehn... Mine was something else

I see you, shaky shaky. You're now talking 'cause your eyes saw the back of your head, lol. Your question was even simple. You picked number 2, right?

agroronnie:
From cms no idea..... but i know Oluwa road is opposite an NNPC filling station on one Alfred Rewane road popularly known as kingsway rd in ikoyi next to Southern Sun hotel and ikoyi club. I hope this helps.

Thank you. I'm chilling in the Zenith bank around there pending when it's time for my interview.

Good morning, everyone. Please, how do I get to Sahara HQ from CMS?

agroronnie:
lol...... Sahara is watching ......... 2nd mail

It's like you refresh your email every minute. The mail was sent around the time you posted.

Good afternoon.

Please, how do I get to Sahara HQ from CMS?

sirexpert:
@agroronnie@laRochelle are u guys stream 2 batch A also

Yeah. Stream II Batch A 2016.

Yay!! Final stage! April 21.

I am on my way to my state of deployment . I have to travel back to Lagos on Thursday.

aiphee16:
Got gmtp success mail..... Next stage is the final stage.

Congratulations ! For posterity sake, kindly tell your experience and what you think your team and you did better.

Thavybe:
It makes no sense for them to send GAP and GMTP mails only, and then hoard GAAP mails. GAP and GAAP candidates did their interview on the same day.

Bruv, what agroronnie wrote is the only thing making sense right now. That GAP and GAAP did their interviews on the same day doesn't necessarily mean they have to get mails the same day.

GMTP Candidates, if you got a success mail, kindly signify. You may like to add your experience.

Thavybe:
I have not seen anything o (GAAP), these​ people should stop this suspense nah.

Neither have I.

agroronnie:
Abeg who created easter monday other than people travelling back to their base after easter sunday, cos if am correct today should be Doubting Thomas Day.

You know when a public holiday falls on a weekend, the next working day (usually Monday) becomes public holiday. That's how you people started calling it Easter Monday.

See the way I'm talking with authority. That's my opinion though. I don't know if that's the reason for today being called Eatster Monday. Agroronnie, do you suggest we write to the Pope to ask him?

buygala:
Thanks for the enlightenment

But I still don't see how the Nigerian system will fully protect the whistle blowers


Be it FMF or EFCC one is reporting to , there is always that heavy chance of an insider blowing the whistle on the whistle blower

Fair logical deduction.

buygala:
Very lucrative, very stressfree ......and also extremely deadly


Imagine a situation where 'A' blows whistle on 'B', not knowing that B has whistle blowers in the EFCC who also tell him who blew the whistle on him ......then A gets his commission, and then as extra profit, gets himself, and possibly his whole family anonymously murdered by B.

The way this whistle-blowing thing is going, it won't be long before we start seeing and hearing frequently of gruesome murders and whole family wipeouts

Summary. ....You can't trust the EFCC to keep you safe to enjoy your whistle-blowing bounty..even the EFCC can blow whistle on you..So.please use your head, before others learn from your calamity

I have a moral obligation to correct wrong opinions; so, don't take this personally. The Whistle-blowing thing is an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Finance, not the EFCC. The EFCC doesn't even know the whistle-blower.

I wanted to send the file (containing information on whistle-blowing) but it is larger than 250kb. So, I made screenshots instead. Find attached.
(Page 1 is the Cover Page. There's no place to put it.)

Cc: All Nairalanders.

agroronnie:
It is clear the first interview was by HR panel and this second interview was by the managers. Usually, a standardized interview should be 3 or 4 stages. Now having met middle or senior managers (cos i noticed a lot of cars and SUVs parked outside) and also with rumours calming 2 more stages, which am thinking would be documentation, benchmarking or medicals, because if we have to sit with another panel higher than the last level of managers, it would certainly be the CEOs Mr. Cole or a panel of Jesus and his angels, because having Mr. Cole and co would be misappropriation of top management's time.
My thoughts. ....
Happy Easter guys

Mr Cole and his partners would interview us. At my second stage, my interviewers mentioned it.

Asiwaju12345:
I wee report u to DG...and you collected allawee...apostle must hear diz

The DG is my uncle .

datjobhunter:
use ur initiative to create a role. There must be a role u can giv urself, depending on wia ur ppa was. U can't go n tell the interview panel that you wia idle during ur NYSC. They'll just smile and say we'll get back to you

Thank you.

datjobhunter:
Fill in your NYSC experience

What if someone didn't work at all in her PPA, like there was no work portfolio, just pure joblessness?

Asiwaju12345:
CFA applying for Graduate trainee...are you kidding me

If you want to open an accounting (audit) firm and you want to get a licence to do that, no matter what level of education you are, you have to do 36 months (or thereabout) apprenticeship in an accounting firm. In fact, if you like be a director in the organisation you work with but if you find you have an interest in being an auditor, you must start from the bottom in an audit firm.

My point is this: It is very much possible for a CFA to apply for graduate trainee programme in PwC because of the reason I gave above.

My experience (GAAP): Summarised version.

After the initial getting to know ourselves and banter, they asked the reason I felt they asked me to bring the paper. Then, they asked I should mention two things (from the paper) that was interesting to me. The first was an economic issue. The second was a sociocultural issue. The chief interviewer asked for my opinion on the first issue, and asked follow-up questions that if you're not versed in Nigeria's economy, you're likely to stutter. For the second issue, I was told to give a thirty-second presentation; no followup question was asked.

The interview was more formal than the first. Their expressions were the same from the moment they began asking questions. I wasn't nervous though, except for the first minute. It was a six-man panel (well, a woman was there).

odutobi23:
please those who had their oral interview today how did it go. please I Dont mind the details.
any may 8 in here?

Who minds the details tele?

mayoor15, please what time did you arrive and what time did you finish the whole process?

ruky1:
Lol@ edakun eskiz me, you are very funny ooo.. since there is no signature required, maybe you can place a call to one of your senior lecturers that will inform him about the use of his name as one of your referees in case Pwc calls. My 2 cents tho

A-ha! You smart.

Edakun eskiz me.

On one of the forms, it is required that one of a candidate's referees be the HOD of his/her department in school. If a candidate is foreign-trained, does PwC expect the person to traverse the distance?

Like play, like play, this thread would be up to 70 pages.

Thedream1994:
Is there anyone here for May 2nd?

Me.

Kookny:
hehehe... wher u get 22days? 10candidates per day?

From antecedents, it is usually 10 applicants per day. If interview starts on April 10 and ends on May 12, how many working days would that be?

r4blessing:
which means we still up to 200 applicants

We are actually 220 applicants, ceteris paribus. 22 days multiplied by 10 individuals equals 220 applicants.

First name P, Last name O. Interview date, May 2.

What I think made me scale through the OPQ:
I think they're looking for balance more than consistency. However, the things you should be consistent with are "I'm organised", "I am analytical", "I have eye for details", "I like statistical analysis". For the other social questions, don't be so uptight. Have a healthy mix. Two sentences may mean the same thing but one is usually deeper than the other.

May 2...here I come.

You guys remind me of the movie Exam.

mayoor15:
Ednut speaking in parables since 1849.....WehDonSir

1849 is even close.