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Getting a Job at BP. Group OxygenDelta Sunny Ji Sun Choi Sang Lee. The Story.
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Getting a Job at BP Group OxygenDelta Sunny Ji Sun Choi Sang Lee
The Story • It’s nearly second semester of your senior year at the University of Michigan, and after you graduate with your BSE in Chemical Engineering, you really want to work for BP. You know a cousin who works there and gets paid obscene amounts of money and lives without any worries in life. You’re jealous and you really really want this job.
Your Resume • You go to your resume and you find the following: • Medium GPA (2.8~3.3) • Past internship with Shell • You were part of a Engineering Fraternity You feel unsure, but desperately wanting the job, you talk to the recruiter, and you somehow get an interview…nice.
Your Chances • You go to your cousin and ask him about the average background of employees hired by BP. You find the following correlation.
Results • With your qualifications, you find that you have a 18.6% chance of being accepted. • Regretting your past decisions, you calculate what your chances would have been if you had done all the right things for BP, and you find you would have had a 98.7% chance of getting the job. You begin to beat yourself over the head, but because of a recent shortage of field engineers, you are hired anyway! The End.