An online application with some preliminary questions followed by two online tests is the starting point for the application to the Shell Graduate Programme. The first online test gives you various scenarios you may face in Shell and tests your decision making in these situations. Following the completion of this test, you will get an email with an hour or two on whether you have been successful after which you will be required to complete another standard numerical test online. Upon successful passing of these two tests, you may get an email within a week or two for scheduling a first round of interview which could be either face-to-face or through telephone. In this interview, you are asked examples of various behavioral situations you have faced and how you tackled them, based on the CAR criteria of Shell. Be sure to only talk about what you did and avoid too many details regarding the situation. You might also want to give different examples for each question to show your breadth of experiences. If successful further, you will be emailed and invited to the Shell Recruitment Day (SRD) along with a maximum of 5 other candidates. There is also a Pre-SRD briefing before the actual SRD to help you familiarize with all the tasks and get introduced to the coordinators and other candidates. The SRD would be a long day filled with different kinds of exercises. The first is an E-tray exercise for which you might be given a practice link before-hand (time is the biggest constraint here and you need to be really quick in looking through various documents and understanding them). This is followed by a group discussion and self-reflection interview to judge your ability to work in a group and your level of self-awareness respectively. The next and most crucial part of the interview is the case-study analysis. You will be given about 8-10 page case with different info and a question - you would have to prepare a presentation of about 5 mins with your recommendation in a very short time of only 20 minutes. Be sure to think through your recommendation as you will be questioned deeply on how you would defend your recommendation in various scenarios. Try to come up with different and more comprehensive answers to the different probing questions that you may be asked instead of repeating your basic logic (this is what I did unfortunately due to lack of time). The Q&A session will last about 30-40 minutes! Finally, there is another round of final interview with the assessors at SRD which would again include different behavioral and other general questions regarding your motivation, etc. Overall, the SRD is a very thorough, challenging but enriching experience. Though I didn't get through the SRD finally, I think I still gained a lot from my experiences on that day itself.