Ace Your Assessment Centre (Postgraduate)

Aspiring to join a leading multinational company on a fast-track management programme? Gain an edge through this four-hour intensive training designed to help you excel at assessment centres that is widely used by top employers not only for Management Associate recruitment but also for internal promotions.

Led by Geoff Barwise, who has designed assessment centres for leading MNCs, this workshop places you in group-based mock business cases that mirror real-world organisational challenges. Students will navigate group dynamics, work under time pressure, handle challenging interactions, and alternate between participant and observer roles to gain deeper insight into how candidates are evaluated.

Key Takeaways:

• Build agility and quick thinking to manage uncertainty during assessment exercises.
• Practise responding to real scenarios such as business cases, group discussions, and presentations.
• Develop essential skills such as diplomatic communication, influencing in teams, and leading difficult conversations.
• Receive personalised feedback from expert trainers.

Who Should Attend:

• Students from all disciplines aspiring to join MNC leadership or other competitive roles.
• Students looking to build foundational skills commonly assessed in recruitment.
• No prior assessment centre experience required.

Spaces are limited for this session so it is only open to postgraduates from School of Continuing and Lifelong Education (NUS SCALE), Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), Risk Management Institute (RMI), Duke-NUS Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, School of Computing, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, College of Design and Engineering.

This highly interactive workshop simulates a real assessment centre, including group work and individual presentations. Active participation with your camera on is required for the full duration. Please register only if you can commit fully.

This is a post-event workshop for NUS Career Fest 2026.

Speaker(s)

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.

Register by 26 February 2026.
(Registration will close once all slots are filled)