How to Ace Your Assessment Centre

Aspiring to join a leading multinational company on a fast-track management programme? Gain an advantage by attending our 4-hour compact training programme. Learn how you can succeed at assessment centres, a tool used by leading companies for a wide array of purposes from recruiting management associates to internal promotion exercises.

In this workshop led by Geoff Barwise who has designed assessment centres for leading MNCs, you will work in groups on mock business cases reflecting real world scenarios. You will experience handling group dynamics and challenging interactions under pressure, as well as rotate between participant and observer roles to gain new perspectives. 

Look forward to these key takeaways:

• Build agility and quick thinking to handle uncertain situations encountered in an assessment centre
• Practise responding to real assessment questions and scenarios such as business cases, group discussions, presentations
• Acquire essential skills for excelling in assessment centres, such as diplomatic communication within teams and leading discussions on difficult business situations and decisions
• Receive valuable feedback from expert trainers

Who should attend?

• Students from all disciplines who aspire to join MNCs on the leadership management track or other competitive roles 
• Students who wish to build the foundation of multiple in-demand career skills assessed in the recruitment process 
• No prior experience of assessment centres is necessary

Spaces are limited for this session. Non-Business School students and undergraduate students are given priority. For any Business School students interested to register, please register for the waiting list. For any postgraduate student interested to attend, please register for the waiting list.

This highly interactive workshop closely simulates a real assessment centre, encompassing group discussions and individual presentations. Active participation with your camera turned on is required throughout the session. Please only register for this session if you can attend for the full duration of the session, with your camera on. 

Speaker

Geoff Barwise
Trainer, Matthew James International Pte Ltd

Geoff Barwise is an experienced leadership trainer and executive coach with over 30 years of industry and HR experience in the Asia Pacific Region.

He specialises in developing leadership talent in the Asia region for MNCs such as BHP Steel, Ciba Specialty Chemicals (acquired by BASF from Novartis) where he held senior HR leadership positions (HR VP, Director/Leader) as well as for MNCs such as Lenovo, P&G, HSBC as a HR specialist and consultant. Geoff is an expert in designing and running assessment centres for these organisations. He has personally experienced participating in one as a participant where he was headhunted internally for a leadership position.

Geoff has lived and worked in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.