This is
story about someone in the selection process of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (PT
Telkom). Since 4 days after graduation, on July 17th, 2013 He found announcement
in campus career center that PT Telkom was opening the job vacancy as Network
Engineer (Direct Shopping ITB) with specific requirements: GPA above 3.00 and had
been graduated with quota of participant is 65 people. Then without thinking
much, he applied the job with sent the Cover Letter, academic transcript and certificate
of graduation.
On August
27th, 2013 he was invited for the first stage selection process at
Telkom Corporate University Center (TCU), Bandung. The selections were consists
of Psychological Test, TOEFL, and Forum Group Discussion (FGD) which was held
in 2 days: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 for Psychological Test and
TOEFL, and Wednesday, September, 4th, 2013 for FGD. He thought this
test is very hard, because there is a TOEFL test where previous week he had
taken a TOEFL test and for the result his TOEFL score is 427.
A very narrow
time between announcement and The Day, he just had one week to prepare TOEFL
and psychotest and didn’t concerned the FGD. He thought not possible to take
the English language at tutoring agencies because their programs are long term
not for one week training, but it is still possible for he to take the private
English. He decided to buy a book of TOEFL and TPA Bappenas at Gramedia bookstore and learned from these books. Felt
there was no progress in self-study, he decided to take private English course with
his French teacher with costs Rp.150.000/hour and took 10 hours of study in 4
days. Because of that, he must sold his notebook. A most gambling decision in his life.
The day was
coming, the test room is very cold. One hundred sixty more participants took
the test. First section test is psychological: series and logical, Kraepelin-Pauli
test, Wartegg test and Drawing people and tree. Second section is TOEFL test:
listening, structure and reading. Everything is ok, but he didn’t confident about
what his have done, mainly in listening section. Then, third section is FGD,
participants were grouped, every group consist of 7 people. They discussed a
case about general problem that usually is happened in working area. He didn’t too
much speaking about his opinion, but occasionally managed how this discussion can
going well. The first step selection is
over, the result will be announced in three week later.
to be continued...