Pro practiceHead of Exploration practice interview
Exploration portfolio strategy, prospect maturation, subsurface assurance, investment choices and leadership of geoscience teams. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
A Pro practice interview, on the Pro plan from ₦5,000 a month billed yearly, or on Premium.
- Lead
- 20 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This executive interview tests how you shape an exploration portfolio and govern high uncertainty investment choices. The panel is looking for independent technical challenge, capital discipline, clear communication of risk and leadership that improves the quality of geoscience decisions.
How to prepare
- Prepare a portfolio decision that balanced chance of success, value, strategic fit and capital exposure.
- Review how you assure play risking, prospect volumes, dependencies and common risk segments.
- Think through how you would respond to both a discovery and a dry well without hindsight bias.
- Prepare an example of improving technical quality or decision culture across a geoscience team.
- Practise presenting uncertainty and a clear recommendation to an investment committee.
Common mistakes
- Selling upside while giving insufficient attention to failure modes and dependencies.
- Using technical language that obscures the investment choice.
- Treating a dry well as either blameworthy failure or proof that no learning occurred.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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