Shell Management Skill Game – Engagement between UTP Students and Shell officers

It’s our final year and many of our friends are starting to hunt for jobs. I looked for opportunities too around me. Shell came into UTP today to have a Management Skill Game with UTP students. And I never regretted attending it. I learn more than graduate application process in Shell. The intrinsic part and the hidden message throughout the games are the main key takeaways that I want to share with all the friends here.

With my team members. Another girl went missing. lol

We played four games to gather the reward points to purchase the materials for the Grand Prix Game at the end of the day. There are four games we played for that purpose. Every game took 15 minutes.

Game 1: Finding who are the one driving Ferrari and the one who drinks water.

What happen on the spot: Everyone reads and goes through the statements. Everyone tries to grasp what is happening and who is doing what, driving what car and staying in which house. At the second half of the game, we decided to draw a matrix out to fill in the blanks. But we were too late in doing this. We got both questions wrong.

Key takeaways and reflection: I think we should know what is the actual problem before moving to the statements. Focus on the problem that we want to solve instead of going through the statements without direction. Human resource can be distributed to two groups too to solve each of the problem. In that way, we can check within the groups to confirm that the answers are correct. Analyzing skill and logical thinking are one of the most important skills here. At the same time, the ability to deliver within a constraint timeframe given a load of information also should be properly managed.

Game 2: Puzzle and naming the island.

What happen on the spot: Everyone figures out which puzzle connects with which puzzle. Then we did trial and error here and there to complete the map. (It was an Australia map). Nobody answered correctly what’s the island beside Australia. The island is actually Iceland (which they purposely move it there to confuse you)

Key takeaways and reflection: The puzzles that scattered around the table are like information that scattered around us, i.e. internet, library, human experience, social media and so on. All these are meaningless when they are fragmented. Our values come in when we gather all the information and put them in one place. Integration is where our value is. Wherelse for the Island naming, I believe that we should have a global view and wider horizon of what is actually happening around us. Not just what happens in our own campus, not just what happens around our friends but also the current issues that are important in our world now. What’s the latest updates in energy and oil and gas industry? What’s the issue that’s pressing and affecting our world?

Game 3: Counting 1 – 10 in other language.

What happen on the spot: We thoughts of some really interesting ways to remember 1 – 10 in Croatian. It was a really fun activity I would say. If you are my teammates, you know how much fun we had!

Key takeaways and reflection: Working in real life later needs a lot of team work especially when you are working in a company with diverse background.

Game 4: Arranging the words to form a sentence (Customer Focus)

What happen on the spot: Trial and error, focused on grammatical errors.

Key takeaways and reflections: Instead of focusing on grammatical errors or trying here and there, we should take a step back on what “customer focus” really means. You can’t expect the merchants to exceed the expectations before meeting the preditable results! The sequence and logical thinking should be applied, not just bumping any random words. At the end of the day, we were only wrong in 1 words.

That’s all from my review. If you have better reflections, please comment below. Thanks and looking forward to apply what I have learnt today to real life.

p/s: Thanks to all the Shell-UTP Campus Ambassador who came today!

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