How do you expect an MBA degree to help you in your career goals? Please reflect on the nature of the role you would like to have and in what type of organization. How will the Nyenrode MBA help you towards achieving this?
For me MBA degree is something like a big jump in my life. Jump with lots of opportunities, skills and unique knowledge. More than one year I have my own business in Ukraine and everything going well, but if I would compare myself now and myself in the future(with international MBA knowledge package) I could say that all things I have today is nothing. I think MBA will help me to reorganize my way of thinking and after graduation I will be another person. I have one big goal in my life - I want to have my own, productive, effective, reliable and profitable business.
I have strong background in energy field. I obtained master degree in best technical university of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI). During my education I was determined with subdivision I want to link my life with. So I started to search and study big amount of information in renewable energy field and smart system technologies. During my last year before I obtained bachelor degree I, with my friend, constructed and programmed smart house model. It is still situated in ours laboratory. After few months I started to work on my master's thesis in smart systems field and in result obtained excellent score.
MBA degree will open for me big amount of opportunities I never met before. I think from the beginning I will start to work in big energy company and absorb all info there. And when I will realize that I am ready to create something completely new I will start my own business. So, I think MBA will give me strong understanding of what I am going to do when I will start my own company.
I think after I will obtain MBA degree, my way of thinking will be completely another so I can only imagine what ideas I will receive in my creative mind during my education. Nyenrode is a perfect place, where I will be able to dive into the ocean of new, interesting and usefull information. Where I will be surrounded of people who have the same way of thinking and who can give me good advice on questions I will have. I have never been in another business school and I don't want to. Because I want to be a part of Nyenrode only.
Now I am looking for a scholarship that will cover my tuition fees because I am not able to find such amount of money now. But I want to start my MBA education this September. During the week after Nyenrode MBA weekend I create a business model that will makes me able to work and receive money anywhere and I have already made first steps to make it work. So till September I will increase my profit and I will be able to pay living costs in Nyenrode. I am ready to work hard day to day, but I want to be a part of Nyenrode MBA program right now, this year. I know, my test score are average but please believe me, that my knowledge is higher than test results.
Based on your own experience, please discuss an example of a situation where your teamwork and/or leadership skills have been tested. In your answer, describe the event and your involvement. What did you learn from the experience? What would you do differently in the future should a similar situation arise?
During my school times I was best wherever I was. When I was in school I have been scout squad leader of my class and took part in lots of events with my team. I obtained big amount of medals, certificates and other during my participation period.
When I was a student, since my second studying year I became faculty student council member and in half a year I became faculty student council head assistant. The difference between head and head assistant appointment was huge but I for me to be a head assistant was much better and here are some points why:
- All events was organized and controlled by me ( freshman day, faculty king/queen event, faculty day and others)
- All student council expenses and profits were controlled by me.
- All responsibility of everything made by student council was on me
Head council was like a Queen in Great Britain but in couple we were really good team and we complement each other in work field. Under my control was approximately 25-30 students with different characters and live wives but each of them was a part of our big team.
The biggest event for me was Parliament election campaign in Ukraine. Campaign duration was approximately 3 month and from the beginning I was regular worker on the lowest stage. After one month I met the right people who gave me a chance to visit ours headquarters. They offered me to be a head of external advertising department. My responsibilities were:
- Supply all required equipment
- Gather whole team in meeting point and apportion workload for every person day to day
- Finished work control
- Gathering whole team to the different event organized by headquarters
- Payment of wages every week to each person
From the beginning my team quantity increased from 12 to 40 persons. But I still had a free time, so I became head of tent department (people from this department has to stay whole day in small tents and spread campaign literature and support any info about our candidate to people) in the same time. So in the second department my team quantity was 18 people. 30% of my team was older than me (50% - students, 20% - people of my age, 30% - people older than 35 years).
I worked hard but in the end I obtained unique experience. I learned how to work with big amount of people and with crowd in general, how to control everything and solve huge amount of problems in short period of time, how to be a leader among people who are older than you and how to control them.
If the similar situation will arise in future I would reconstruct a little bit the way how to control everything. I would make in easier, so I would have more time to take one more appointment.
Choose both an achievement and a failure from your professional or personal life and describe why you see it as such. What lessons did you learn from each incident? How would you handle such incidents in the future?
On my mind best achievement in my life is my own business. I started it from nothing having in my wallet only 100$ on it. I spent more than year to study how to do everything and increase my profit. I made each little thing on my web store by myself, spent hours searching for suppliers and for new products in general. And I did it working during my full time job and studying on last year in University. I think that this is my best achievement, because whole this year I slept for 4-6 hours, worked hard because I had strong desire to be independent and to achieve the goal I create for myself. Now I have been stud enough to move forward and make business wider. So I started to create online stores for other people and now it is also part of my business. Sometimes, if I need help, I can pay for freelancer and continue my work without anyone else.
During my second educational year I was too busy with the affairs of the faculty student council, I wasted 70% of my time on different events organized by me and my team and I forgot about my education. I thought that everything will be good with my exams, thought that someone from deanery will help me because I did so much for my university, but I was wrong. I failed 2 of 5 exams, but I still had 2 chances to retake them. So, first try I failed, second try was unsuccessful for me too. After second try studied everything and third try was successful for me. It was very stressful for me, I felt that everyone betrayed me, I was angry and disappointed. After this situation I decided to place the right priorities in my life. Since this situation my average mark was increased from 3.3 to 4 on Bachelor degree and to 4.8 on Masters Degree.
On my third year I still was in student council, still did lots of things, but only after I made everything regarding my education. It was a good lesson for me. Since that moment I was one of the first, who did everything among my classmates.
In future I will not allow such situation occurs. Never. I studied how to control my time and I will never make same mistake.
Why should you be accepted as a candidate to the Nyenrode MBA program? What will be your personal contribution to Nyenrode as an alumnus/na of the International MBA program?
Because I want this more than you can imagine. Because I am not agree with "home-work-home"
system and I will never be in crowd.. I am talking about crowd, not a team. I highly motivated to work hard day to day to be successful. I completely rebuild my life in just one year only because I want it. And ready to do this one more time.
I am ready to do any administrative work or organize some events or trips for Nyenrode students during my education. After graduation as an alumnus I will provide support to current students. And in future my aim is to help someone like me, some guy or girl who will have same strong desire to be independent and successful in this world.
For me MBA degree is something like a big jump in my life. Jump with lots of opportunities, skills and unique knowledge. More than one year I have my own business in Ukraine and everything going well, but if I would compare myself now and myself in the future(with international MBA knowledge package) I could say that all things I have today is nothing. I think MBA will help me to reorganize my way of thinking and after graduation I will be another person. I have one big goal in my life - I want to have my own, productive, effective, reliable and profitable business.
I have strong background in energy field. I obtained master degree in best technical university of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI). During my education I was determined with subdivision I want to link my life with. So I started to search and study big amount of information in renewable energy field and smart system technologies. During my last year before I obtained bachelor degree I, with my friend, constructed and programmed smart house model. It is still situated in ours laboratory. After few months I started to work on my master's thesis in smart systems field and in result obtained excellent score.
MBA degree will open for me big amount of opportunities I never met before. I think from the beginning I will start to work in big energy company and absorb all info there. And when I will realize that I am ready to create something completely new I will start my own business. So, I think MBA will give me strong understanding of what I am going to do when I will start my own company.
I think after I will obtain MBA degree, my way of thinking will be completely another so I can only imagine what ideas I will receive in my creative mind during my education. Nyenrode is a perfect place, where I will be able to dive into the ocean of new, interesting and usefull information. Where I will be surrounded of people who have the same way of thinking and who can give me good advice on questions I will have. I have never been in another business school and I don't want to. Because I want to be a part of Nyenrode only.
Now I am looking for a scholarship that will cover my tuition fees because I am not able to find such amount of money now. But I want to start my MBA education this September. During the week after Nyenrode MBA weekend I create a business model that will makes me able to work and receive money anywhere and I have already made first steps to make it work. So till September I will increase my profit and I will be able to pay living costs in Nyenrode. I am ready to work hard day to day, but I want to be a part of Nyenrode MBA program right now, this year. I know, my test score are average but please believe me, that my knowledge is higher than test results.
Based on your own experience, please discuss an example of a situation where your teamwork and/or leadership skills have been tested. In your answer, describe the event and your involvement. What did you learn from the experience? What would you do differently in the future should a similar situation arise?
During my school times I was best wherever I was. When I was in school I have been scout squad leader of my class and took part in lots of events with my team. I obtained big amount of medals, certificates and other during my participation period.
When I was a student, since my second studying year I became faculty student council member and in half a year I became faculty student council head assistant. The difference between head and head assistant appointment was huge but I for me to be a head assistant was much better and here are some points why:
- All events was organized and controlled by me ( freshman day, faculty king/queen event, faculty day and others)
- All student council expenses and profits were controlled by me.
- All responsibility of everything made by student council was on me
Head council was like a Queen in Great Britain but in couple we were really good team and we complement each other in work field. Under my control was approximately 25-30 students with different characters and live wives but each of them was a part of our big team.
The biggest event for me was Parliament election campaign in Ukraine. Campaign duration was approximately 3 month and from the beginning I was regular worker on the lowest stage. After one month I met the right people who gave me a chance to visit ours headquarters. They offered me to be a head of external advertising department. My responsibilities were:
- Supply all required equipment
- Gather whole team in meeting point and apportion workload for every person day to day
- Finished work control
- Gathering whole team to the different event organized by headquarters
- Payment of wages every week to each person
From the beginning my team quantity increased from 12 to 40 persons. But I still had a free time, so I became head of tent department (people from this department has to stay whole day in small tents and spread campaign literature and support any info about our candidate to people) in the same time. So in the second department my team quantity was 18 people. 30% of my team was older than me (50% - students, 20% - people of my age, 30% - people older than 35 years).
I worked hard but in the end I obtained unique experience. I learned how to work with big amount of people and with crowd in general, how to control everything and solve huge amount of problems in short period of time, how to be a leader among people who are older than you and how to control them.
If the similar situation will arise in future I would reconstruct a little bit the way how to control everything. I would make in easier, so I would have more time to take one more appointment.
Choose both an achievement and a failure from your professional or personal life and describe why you see it as such. What lessons did you learn from each incident? How would you handle such incidents in the future?
On my mind best achievement in my life is my own business. I started it from nothing having in my wallet only 100$ on it. I spent more than year to study how to do everything and increase my profit. I made each little thing on my web store by myself, spent hours searching for suppliers and for new products in general. And I did it working during my full time job and studying on last year in University. I think that this is my best achievement, because whole this year I slept for 4-6 hours, worked hard because I had strong desire to be independent and to achieve the goal I create for myself. Now I have been stud enough to move forward and make business wider. So I started to create online stores for other people and now it is also part of my business. Sometimes, if I need help, I can pay for freelancer and continue my work without anyone else.
During my second educational year I was too busy with the affairs of the faculty student council, I wasted 70% of my time on different events organized by me and my team and I forgot about my education. I thought that everything will be good with my exams, thought that someone from deanery will help me because I did so much for my university, but I was wrong. I failed 2 of 5 exams, but I still had 2 chances to retake them. So, first try I failed, second try was unsuccessful for me too. After second try studied everything and third try was successful for me. It was very stressful for me, I felt that everyone betrayed me, I was angry and disappointed. After this situation I decided to place the right priorities in my life. Since this situation my average mark was increased from 3.3 to 4 on Bachelor degree and to 4.8 on Masters Degree.
On my third year I still was in student council, still did lots of things, but only after I made everything regarding my education. It was a good lesson for me. Since that moment I was one of the first, who did everything among my classmates.
In future I will not allow such situation occurs. Never. I studied how to control my time and I will never make same mistake.
Why should you be accepted as a candidate to the Nyenrode MBA program? What will be your personal contribution to Nyenrode as an alumnus/na of the International MBA program?
Because I want this more than you can imagine. Because I am not agree with "home-work-home"
system and I will never be in crowd.. I am talking about crowd, not a team. I highly motivated to work hard day to day to be successful. I completely rebuild my life in just one year only because I want it. And ready to do this one more time.
I am ready to do any administrative work or organize some events or trips for Nyenrode students during my education. After graduation as an alumnus I will provide support to current students. And in future my aim is to help someone like me, some guy or girl who will have same strong desire to be independent and successful in this world.