Chapter 43: The Crisis of Jonas
After spending a rich week in Frankfurt, Yonas drove a little BMW in Colston back to Gelsau's home. The family has not yet come back, Yonas lives alone in an empty home. Fortunately, he can go to his cousin's place to have a free meal, but he is too lazy to work alone.
After a holiday with Colston and two girls, Yonas enjoyed a light life alone. He rode his horse on Mount Rigi every morning and then skied down the mountain. The general was always extremely excited when he followed Yonas down the mountain quickly, and seemed to enjoy it more than Jonas.
When I have nothing to do during the day, I go online. Sometimes some inconspicuous news or an accident evokes the vague memories deep in Jonas's heart.
When he entered the search in San Diego, he entered San Diego, California, USA. San Diego is located south of Los Angeles, where the second uncle Yves of Jonas is located. Jonas suddenly remembered that a new copper ore was discovered south of San Diego, and it was a copper-gold-molybdenum mixed ore, with millions of tons of copper, twenty tons of gold and sixty million pounds of molybdenum.
This is still the memory of chatting with Xue Tao. Thinking of this, Yonas decided to go to New York to meet Xue Tao now when he went to the United States this time. Xue Tao went to Columbia University Business School in 2003. Here, he met his future wife, Taiwan girl Cai Yunyun, and his relationship has always been very good.
Zhou Lei and Xue Tao were best friends in their previous life. Their personalities were almost carved out of the same mold. The gentle Cai Yunyun was not only Xue Tao’s favorite, but Zhou Lei also liked her very much. So, although Yonas began to think about finding Xue Tao and taking him to make a lot of money together. But after thinking about it, he still felt that he shouldn’t disturb Xue Tao’s life for the time being.
Xue Tao studied in the United States for two years and worked in an American company for two years before he was sent back to work. At that time, he had already met the basic conditions for a successful person. Now he is still a raw melon seed and has not matured. It is not necessarily a good thing for him to destroy his current trajectory. At least he has to wait for Xue Tao to graduate from graduate school. Another reason is that he is afraid that Xue Tao will miss his future wife Cai Yunyun.
Yonas has been following Harvard University's campus website, but Zuckerberg has not uploaded pictures online yet, and Yonas does not have Zuckerberg's private email, so he has not been in touch yet. However, before February 4, if you cannot contact Zuckerberg online, Yonas is destined to go to the United States. You can miss any opportunity, but you can't miss it if you participate in Facebook's investment. This profitable opportunity will be gone.
After the New Year, Yonas just started working and received an announcement for the assessment. The assessment was an audit team composed of Fields and a three-person decision-making team, which mainly conducted a comprehensive assessment of Yonas's study since he entered the company for more than a month.
The assessment is divided into three parts. The first part is the basic knowledge test. After receiving the assessment notice, Yonas started. It lasted for an hour, mainly based on the company's internal data analysis basic knowledge, basic common sense in the energy industry, and prevention of confidentiality measures. Most of them were multiple-choice questions, and one hour was more than enough. Yonas completed the answer sheet in 40 minutes.
The second part is to ask in person questions. Most of the members of the three-person decision-making team have the questions within the scope of industry knowledge. Yonas easily completed the question and answer. After answering the question from the decision-making team, Fields asked next to him: "Hoffman, as far as I know, your family has a close relationship with our Glencore. Why didn't you join your dad's company but insist on joining Glencore?"
Jonas laughed and said, "That's because Genocide is the world's largest, best, and most powerful energy trading company. I need such a platform to realize my ideal."
Fields looked at the information in his hand and asked calmly: "Granec welcomes ambitious newcomers, because this will only make Granec stronger. But how do you prove that you are the talent Granec needs?"
Yonas thought for a while and said, "Genocide is a heroic legion composed of a group of lions. Only by proving that I am also a lion can I gain a foothold here. So, I need opportunities."
Fields said: "The work of the intelligence department seems to be a bit inappropriate for you, because the work here requires calmness, patience, meticulousness and sensitivity. But you are full of passion, ambition and impulsiveness. If you can choose a department, which department do you want to work in?"
Yonas thought for a while and said, "It's still in the Intelligence Department. Because I don't lack the courage and perseverance to do things, but I still lack a detailed understanding of the entire industry. The Intelligence Department's numerous sources of information can help me understand this industry faster."
Fields asked, "Can you tell me in detail?"
"If I go to the business department, I don't know the classification and quality of oil, ore, I don't know the development investment of an oil field or mine, or even the transportation steps. This will make me feel short of it in the actual operation. So, before actually doing it, what I need is an understanding of the entire industry. The information source of the intelligence department comes from all walks of life, and in the existing examples, I can calculate everything I want to know. So, I still want to stay in the intelligence department."
Fields said: "So how do you prove yourself?"
In addition to learning various knowledge in the energy industry when working in Glenoc, the more reason is that Yonas wants to use this platform. As the world's largest large-scale commodity trader, Glenoc not only has the most complete network, but also has a variety of talents. If you want to develop in the energy industry, staying in Glenoc will definitely be twice the result with half the effort than working hard by yourself. This is the biggest reason why Yonas entered Glenoc.
Of course, this reason cannot be said directly, but you must make a splash so that you can gain greater voice. This is also the reason why Jonas has always deliberately shown great confidence.
Jonas asked with a smile: "Where will my answer be saved in the end?"
Fields finally smiled, "It depends on the content of your answer." He sorted out the information in his hand and asked Sam of the decision-making team. "How is the result of Yonas' written test?"
Sam pushed his glasses that were slipping off and said with a smile: "It's perfect."
Fields laughed and said, "The interview result is also good, so it depends on the last step." Several others nodded. Fields asked Yonas, "I guess you have already understood the steps of our assessment, the written test of standard answers, in-person inquiries, and the explanation of the development plan. This is not an easy job. I'll give you two days. Can you complete it?"
Jonas nodded and said, "In fact, I have made a lot of preparations. I can copy most of the things right away when I have determined the personalized questions."
The last part of the assessment is to make a detailed plan for the person being assessed to integrate these things into a paper on how to carry out work, how to develop, and industry status in the future. Of course, the company will design some personalized things for you to add, otherwise it will become a monotonous paper.
Fields handed Jonas a piece of paper and said, "This is a problem specially designed for you, so don't let others know. You can complete this work plan at home today and tomorrow. When you go to work the morning after tomorrow, I hope you hand it in my hands."
"Happy to obey." Yonas stood up and took the handwritten paper and clamped it into his briefcase.
Since Fields had already said that he didn't want others to see this note, of course Yonas would not write a planning book in the company. Several supervisors were there, and there was no need to explain it specifically. After saying goodbye to the few, he left the company directly.
Alden and Sam didn't know what was written on the note, but they were both old employees, so naturally they knew that there were still many things that were not known to the company. A little curiosity quickly suppressed, and they didn't ask, packed up their things, and left the conference room.
After leaving the company, Jonas finally did not resist his curiosity. He parked his car on the side of the road and took out the note with several requirements. The note was written in German, and the handwriting was not from Fields, nor even from the CEO Glassenberg. Jonas's first feeling was that it was written by Markridge himself. When he saw the signature, it was indeed.
The above lists a few simple requirements: First, your family is about to become a billionaire level. Are you still passionate about Glencore's work? Describe your psychological journey in detail. If you choose to quit, you don't need to answer.
Second, all your father’s accounts have not remittances with Chile. All signs indicate that you are the driver of Chile’s copper mine exploration. If possible, I hope to hear your explanation myself.
Third, from your personal perspective, analyze the changes in the energy market and the response measures in detail.
Fourth, your positioning of Glencore and your positioning of yourself.
fifth…………
The following few items returned to the normal content of the assessment, but the second item made Jonas completely difficult. He had no doubt that Ritchie could find out his father's account and financial transactions, nor did he doubt that he could find out all his father's behavior. In this world, there were not many people who could perfectly hide himself in front of Ritchie, and even the US president could not.
But he couldn't find a perfect reason to deal with Ritchie. Even if it was the real answer, Ritchie might not believe it. So, now he needs to find an answer that can make him believe, or try to satisfy Ritchie.
Jonas also realized that Ricci had no malicious intentions, otherwise he would not have asked in this way. Or he was just curious for a moment, or he felt that he was a little confused and wanted to find the bottom line. His actions brought him a lot of wealth, but it was also an unstable factor.
Yonas started the car and drove slowly on the way home. Although his face was quiet, his heart was overwhelming and entangled. Was he too frivolous? He only saw the benefits but did not realize the danger. Although Ritchie had no malice, this was the biggest encounter with Yonas, because it was related to Ritchie's crisis of trust.
Chapter completed!