September-Shell attended my school's career fair. I was told to apply online (as everyone says) but within 24 hours of submitting my information, I was contacted for an interview. My interview was fairly structured according to typical Shell manner. It was mostly behavioral. I felt confident after my interview, but didnt hear back until February for a Shell Recruitment Day. The recruitment day was very structured, but they provided candidates with ample materials and time to prepare. I felt they were supportive and wanted candidates to succeed: the SRD could have a 100% passing rate and they specifically noted we were not competing against one another.

I met the recruiters at a career fair at my university and they encouraged me to apply through their online process. There was a pretty extensive online assessment that included a quantitative section that is timed (about 1 min/question) and covered a lot of percentage/fraction math. This lead to a phone interview about a month later. My interviewer said it was his first time using the "new process" and mentioned they have completely reworked their interview process as of February 2013. The phone interview was a little over an hour with timed sections of behavioral questions following the outline of the "what we look for" section on their website. After the structured questions, the interviewer opened it up so that I could ask any questions of him and was very candid about the atmosphere at Shell. From that he said he would grade my answers and they would also be graded by a second Shell employee to either corroborate or argue his suggestion for either passing me through to the next round or not. An answer is to be received 14 days from the phone interview.