NNPC will not, once again, WILL NOT ask you for money to sell a form to you. NNPC paid transport fares to those who came from outside Abuja for their interviews last time. What makes you think they'll ask you to buy a form to apply to work for them? If you bought this form, you've lost your money!

Badema:
I still stand by the principle of rectification! This English is becoming so unpopular, let's go preserve it for the intended interviews. Now, its time to put logic before negation and brainstorm on how we can collectively be judicious to scale through the panel.

Ask questions, give answers, raise issues, burn problems to ashes!!! Someone got to take the lead please.

Good you raised this. Let's start from our last time out. I found out the panel had a professional from every field possible, or based on those invited for interviews for the day (proof still that it's not just about engineers).

1. The most unnerving question you'll get is "tell us about yourself". Start preparing your answers already. It may sound easy, but try answering this yourself right now. Difficult right?

2. The professional on your panel will ask you a very random question from your field of study. The aim is to see you can defend your 2'1. So, be sure you prepare well based on your field of study.

3. This is optional, but when they ask you "any questions?" please ask them something smart, but not too technical. Ask them how they are contributing to other sectors of the economy. Ask them the measures they've taken in the face of the oil price slump. Something smart.

Let's share our experience too and hopefully learn from each other. Cheers!

babacha:


Chairman if u think learning english now is the best way u work on urself, den u are making a mistake. If u want to work on urselfn go and acquire training and skill that are relevant to oil and gas coy and ur field of study, no company will pick an engineer who speak english well with zero technical skill and training, thay need an engineer who can do the job not engineer who can blow grammar. Great engineers are people who solve technical problem not people who blow grammar. Don't think u are developing urself more dan others in this room cos is after the interview we will know who has realy develop himself, I can tell u dat most guys here will speak less in the interview, their professional ccertifications and technical experience is what will give dem the job not the english they speak. don't take any body who pass the aptitude test for granted

No offence but the short-sighted news in your write up is funny and alarming.

1. NNPC is NOT recruiting only engineers.
2. Even if Einstein is your ancestor, and you have the fattest CV, and you cannot communicate, no one will even get to see what you're about. Your diction will be a turn off. What will be the point of getting the required skill set and training when you can't even tell them what you have?
3. Be you a doctor or an engineer, you won't be interviewed with Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba. You will be interviewed with English. We're all here awaiting the interviews and you think you shouldn't prepare all round? Really?

Bro, go online, inform yourself on interview techniques and prepare. I'm sure you'll find out it's not just about what you know. Because no matter your qualification, if you can't sell it, no one will buy it. I hope they'll buy yours. Cheers!

madri4u:
Correct. In oil n gas work, speaking english is nt a criteria dat ur d best person dat fits for d job.Some pple knws english in writing, but can't speak well and dey ar gud n well sound in d job.So evrybody has weaknesses in life..

So because O&G does not need English, you won't work on yourself? It's like saying because you're not hungry now, you won't bother about what to eat tomorrow. Even if you don't need it for the job, work on yourself because that's what any being that has breath does. We strive to get better, not stagnate and rot. Please, written and spoken English go hand in hand. That voice you hear in your head when you think is usually what you put down. Now, imagine how your bad English hits the panelists at the interview. People have gotten jobs because everyone that came was good enough, but someone had to be taken; and one got it because he could knot a tie. Let's work on ourselves, all round, with the time we have now till we get the interview invites. Cheers!

dapsy06:
To whom it may concern.

Aristotle once said and I quote ''The worst form of inequality is to try make unequal things equal''

It will be a continuous waste of time trying to make some of you guys to see beyond your knowledge that have been jaundiced.

If after the screen grab, you still think there is no such word, then you had better gone for a frontal lobe upgrade and may God help you.

And for that slubberdegullion cacafeugo who thinks he is smart, you may continue to rant for all I care. Yours is only a case of argumentum ad odium and I don't deal with loblollies.

Had a long day and I need some rest now as I have an early morning chopper to catch.

@softrise, executivegej has given you quiet an impressive info on how the quota system selection is achieved.

"...beyond your knowledge that HAS been jaundiced." "Have" is the wrong verb for this sentence. There's something you need to understand about English. Like your typical software, it can be updated. We in broadcast don't say "the seven stadia were closed". The seven STADIUMS were closed. Why? Certain things have been dropped and others have been picked. Agendum is dead now. Agenda, agendas. A few more words are like that too. Listen to BBC. You can't be more British than they are. If you hear STADIA, ignore everything I've said. Chosed exists colloquially but no one uses it sir. Don't try to prove right or wrong. Let it go, and don't embarrass yourself out there by using it. Cheers!

Chosed is simply not an English word. I will even have to delete this from my phone's learned words because I forced it to type it. Once again, I choose, I chose, I have chosen. Take corrections when you're evidently wrong. That makes you a great man. Cheers!

dapsy06:


My brother or is it sis, I'm very gracious in defeat and would gladly accept when I'm wrong. You just referred to the present, past and past participle of choose. Run down through your note on tenses and you would find what we call a perfect tense.