Panel Interview:

CAN WE MEET YOU?

HOW WAS SCHOOL DAYS? CHALLENGING OR STRESSFUL?
WHY DO YOU WANT TO WORK WITH NLNG?
TELL ME ABOUT A TIME YOU WORKED WITH A TEAM AS TEAM LEADER AND ANOTHER
AS TEAM MEMBER.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT WORKING IN AN ISOLATED LOCATION?
IN 3 WORDS WHY SHOULD WE EMPLOY YOU?
WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST MOTIVATION?
HOW DO YOU RELAX?
IF YOUR IMMEDIATE SUPERIOR TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS CLEARLY
AGAINST THE COMPANIES POLICY, WHAT WILL BE YOUR NEXT LINE OF ACTION?
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ABOUT THE PIB?
DO YOU FOLLOW CURRENT TRENDS IN THE NEWS?
WHAT ARE THE MAJOR PRODUCTS OF NLNG AND HOW DO THEY DIFFER FROM ONE
ANOTHER?
WHICH COUNTRY IS THE GREATEST MARKET FOR NLNG PRODUCTS?
WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?
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Presentation:
A COMPANY DECIDES TO ESTABLISH TWO RESTAURANTS, ONE FOR YOUTHS,
ESPECIALLY STUDENTS IN THE TERTIARY INSTITUTION AND THE OTHER FOR HE
WORKING CLASS. IF THE COMPANY HAS SIX LOCATIONS AS OPTIONS i.e UNILAG,
UNIBEN, UNIPORT, LAGOS ISLAND, ABUJA, PORTHARCOURT,..pick the best two locations
giving reasons and backing your choice with positive points thereby convincing your
audience (company officials) to establish their restaurants in your prescribed locations.
Group/team Work:
You are a construction team and have been assigned to partition the outlines of the walls
of a building to be used for automobile assembling.
What are the factors you will consider?
How will you work with and as a team?
Is result your major aim or the steps required to get to the result or both?
If one of your team members is rude, insulting, nonchalant and arrogant, how do you
deal with this?
Do you give glory to your team for your individual brilliance or you take glory for
yourself?
Are you a constructive critic, moral builder, think tank, deep listener?
Are you a Religious person?..
if you are a trained sea man and you have a safety button on a ship in case of severe
damage to the ship to avoid sinking. You have never used this button in a real life ship
crisis and your ship was sinking in the middle of the ocean, do you pray before locating
the button?
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The above is rhetoric, you can answer in your mind, ignore or share your answers here if
you are cheerful enough. Ideas prepare the mind for the unexpected thereby creating
confidence to face any challenge. Guess you guys can add more questions to prepare
your minds ahead of the AC..

@okzcorp, thanks for the mention. I feel valued.

The answers to these type of questions are subjective: one just has to select any option
and then generate reasons for the choice made fully cognizant of the pros and cons for
making such decisions. I believe the aim is to check ones leadership acumen, persuasion
skills, analytical ability and initiative.
My choices are therefore University of Lagos and Lagos Island respectively. I will give
concise explanations for arriving at my decision.
In establishing a Restaurant for the youth particularly those in the Tertiary institution I
considered the following factors.
1. Population base
I could be wrong but I believe UNILAG has more students and facilities than any of the
other universities mentioned. This invariably means that the school would be a better
and perhaps more viable market for my restaurant. Also considering they have alot of
programmes being done in the school like Diploma, all levels of PGD programmes with
perhaps the greatest range of courses available and a lot of their facilities being used on
lease by different companies and individuals across all walks of life then it is logical to
assume that there would always be a large customer base at any point P and time T.
2. Accessibility
UNILAG is in Yaba. Yaba can be considered as a bit central in terms of its
characterization as rural or urban. It is not too far from the mainland and also a mere
'3rd mainland bridge' away from the Island. Except on very special days it is uncommon
to find gridlock traffic on one's way to the school which gives credence to its accessibility.
3. Employment Base
This is an offspring of point 1. In this case I am considering the fact that it will be
reasonably easy to find employees for the restaurant considering that a large population
such as Lagos' will consequently have a significantly higher number of unemployed
individuals willing and able to work for the restaurant.
4. Visibility
Considering how Well-known and visible UNILAG is I have no doubts that we would enjoy
a lot of patronage from Akokites as well as Lagosians in general.
5. Security
The spates of bombings by BH and even cultist wars and killings are not rife within the
school and its environs. People should have least reservations concerning visiting as they
would to a place like UNIBEN OR UNIPORT where such wars seem to be the order of the
day.
6. Facility/nearness to raw materials
There would be a handful of buildings to pick from should one decide to lease it and
considering how cosmopolitan Lagos is, it would be equally easy to acquire the necessary

furniture that the restaurant will require, the electricals and even the food stuff and
ingredients needed for cooking. Everything you need is in Lagos.
My reasons for selecting Lagos Island for building the second restaurant is somewhat
similar to my points above and may only differ in that Lagos Island for the most part
houses the bourgeois of the city: those more akin to patronise the restaurant. Also, most
of the better paying jobs are situated on the Island and as such is a viable catchment
area for the working class. Power supply is reasonably better than that in PHC and even
if ABUJA might enjoy better power supply than Lagos it pales in the area of the
workingclass population (which should be cogent in selecting a location). Also, there are
more filling stations in lagos than Abuja and one can easily gain access to these stations
to replenish stock of the required Fuel needed to augment the said 'power supply'. Lagos
is definitely more secure than Abuja.
I am sure there are more reasons but I am typing from my phone and I am also
currently out of ideas. You should give me your own opinion and if/when possible
constructively criticize mine too.
Cheers mate.

I'd favour ur disposition about locating the student restaurant in unilag but however I
have something diff In Mind for the working class restaurant. I'd go for locating that one
in Abuja because profitability is the overall aim of business and we all know that the
disposable income in Abuja is higher than other states. What this means is than an
average worker in Abuja has more to spend or is more comfortable with spending than
an average worker in lagos which explains why they can cope in such expensive city. My
point is the restaurant would be more profitable if located in Abuja. Also there exists the
advantage of relative monopoly. I say relative because Lagos is a commercial hub and
there are bound to be more restaurants per square mile than Abuja where such things
are not everywhere as compared to lagos. I know this to be true as I Have lived in both
cities.
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You have all made valid points. Since i'm an accountant, i'd be concerned with two
things. Maximising profit and minimising cost. My first choice would be Uniben, because
of the following reasons.
1. Cost of business place: the cost of Renting a business place in uniben is relatively
cheap compared to unilag and uniport.
2. Cost of Foodstuff: It is cheaper to procure foodstuff for the operation of a restaurant
in uniben compared to the other schools.
3. Customer Base: Lagos is a metropolitan city with lots of restaurants already
competing for customers,a new entrant into this market would have so many challenges
with winning some customers over, they might have to do aggressive promotions,all
these would have a negative effect on profit.
4. Staff renumeration: Workers in unilag and uniport are more likely to ask for bigger
renumerations and better conditions of service than in uniben. Every business man loves
cheap Labour.
It would be easy for a business to thrive in uniben with minimal cost,Hence bigger profits
for expansion.
My second choice would be Portharcourt. I'd pick Ph for all the reasons i listed above and

more.its really difficult typing with my phone,i'd do justice to that when i get to the
office.
N/B pardon my grammar and punctuations,i'm a man of very few words.