Maybank Scholarship Award: Pre-Interview Research

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Slogan
"Humanising Finacial Services"

Core Values
T- Teamwork
I- Integrity
G- Growth
E- Excellence & Efficiency
R- Relationship building

Important people

• Khoo Teck Puat(Founder)
  -banker & hotel owner
  -wealthiest man in Singapore at one point
• Datuk Abdul Farid Alias(President & CEO)
• Dato' Mohd. Rafique Merican(Group CFO)

Background

• Founded on the 31st of May 1960
• Malaysia's largest bank
  -by market capitalisation & total assets
• One of the largest banks in South East Asia
• Largest public listed company on Bursa Malaysia(M'sian stock exchange)
• 2400 offices worldwide
• More than 45,000 employees

Countries with Maybank presence

• Asia
  -Malaysia
  -Singapore
  -Philippines
  -Indonesia
  -Cambodia
  -Vietnam
  -Laos
  -Myanmar
  -Hong Kong
  -China
  -Brunei
  -Bahrain
  -Pakistan

• Outside Asia-United Kingdom
  -United States

Maybank Scholarship Award: Assessment Centre

I didn't manage to make it all the way to Stage 3, the assessment centre so I don't have any firsthand experience or tips for you guys. I'm just gonna link you guys to posts by people who actually made it there.

http://scholarst.com/project/maybank-benjamin-yau

https://collegelah.com/2014/08/10/what-it-takes-to-be-a-maybank-scholar/

http://callmetiffany.blogspot.my/2014/05/maybank-foundation-scholarship-round-3.html
http://myobscurenook.blogspot.my/2013/05/interviews-for-maybank-scholarship-2013.html
http://darshinisubramaniam97.blogspot.my/2015/05/maybank-scholarship-2015the-assessment.html

I have a friend who made it to the third stage so I'll try and blackmail ask her if she wants to be a guest writer. Anyways, hope to see ya soon!

Maybank Scholarship Award: Interview

About a week after the online assessment, I received a call from a Maybank employee asking me to choose a convenient date and time for stage 2 of Maybank's scholarship selection, the interview, which was pretty darn exciting to say the least. I also received an email from Maybank informing me of the dress code and required documents. 

Word Crimes: Part 2

I'll break this guideline into multiple parts so you can just skip to whichever part you're interested in.

Maybank Scholarship Award: Online Assessment

About two weeks ago I received an email(albeit riddled with grammatical mistakes) telling me that I was shortlisted for the Maybank Scholarship Award and that I had to take an online assessment(Stage 1). It is the first of three assessments that potential candidates will have to pass through to obtain the coveted Maybank Scholarship Award.

Please use your spell checker Maybank.

After an hour of completely freaking out, I spent about an hour googling "Maybank online assessment", "Maybank scholarship online test" and the like. I stumbled across a few blogs but they usually gave very minimal explanation as to how the test would actually be like. then, I kinda gave up and just went "Eh, fuck it." and dived into the test. I passed this stage(somehow).  So, while the test is still (kind of) fresh in my mind, I'm gonna tell all you future Maybank scholarship applicants about what the test was like and my tips for the test.

Maybank Scholarship Award: Overview

The Maybank Scholarship is awarded to 50 students every year which mean that it's a very very competitive scholarship. Don't let this discourage you though because there's no harm in trying. I was pretty shocked myself when I received the email to take their online assessment(more on that in my next post). For now, here are the summarised details of both the bonded and non-bonded scholarship from the Maybank's scholarship page.