Interview week

3 interviews in past week!

1) Pricing position with AIA [mon]

Interview went well. Questions I prepared didn't come out. Relatively smooth i think, though i could feel myself getting nervous. The tight voice and repetitiveness might have exposed it a little. Hopefully the interviewers didn't pick up on that. =x

a nice point was that I knew both interviewers from my internship =)

UAT was going to be the bulk of the work for the next 6 months or so. I don't mind because it'll give me an idea of the overall products. Give me time to readjust to the singapore style of working hopefully.

2) Actuarial postion with IMI [wed]

Knowing that the interviewers are going to be people I don't know, I felt relatively more nervous. I think the interviewers picked up on that because the main interviewer tried to assure me that they are both informal and stuff.

I guess I was meant to elaborate on questions he asked, but I fell into the 'ask one question, get one answer' mode. It was hard when he asked why I chose this company. I prepared a little before hand but the best I could have come up with the hour before the interview: different types of products. haha, so smart. I didn't really memorise much of the company info or the head office's. I remembered writing down a bit and thinking it was so redundent =x fail.

3) Valuation position with AIA[thu]

The interviewer today was actually one of my supervisors. But she forgot what I did already. =p Lol. Refreshed her memory. But told her I didn't really understand the role and I think the interview was mostly her explaining the role of valuation. There were Forms, checking on solvency, explaining queries initiated by others for reasons/assumptions behind differences in premiums for similar products to people of similar ages, statstical reports and stuff.

Actually, I'm not sure if that whole bunch of stuff scared me. Haha, plus the interviewer asked how i would deal with stress and if i do not know how to do something and everyone's busy. plus the fact that there are datelines every DAY not just a certain month. maybe maybe. Maybe that's what scared me and put me off into telling the interviewer later that I actually preferred pricing (no.1's interview position)

I keep holding the assumption that I would not be able to solve things by myself each time because firstly, my results are terrible and i might not thus have understood the requirements well. Secondly, I might not know the system/programme that they are using well enough.

This kind of thinking pulled me down to earth when speaking to my interviewer today =x rar.

Crap.

Had a short msn convo with one of the pricing interviewers. She suggested that I thank the Valuation interviewer for giving me the interview and that I am interested to be on her team, because in the interview today, I told her that I prefer pricing! Ah, the fear of being overwhelmed frightened me! Well, plus the fact that both interviewers would be liasing in choosing people for their team. Was actually hoping she'll put in a good word for me in front of the other interviewer. =p But not sure if it'll work too.