Raheem
Oct 17, 2018
Scholarship / "Father's business" - Chevening scholarship review [4]
Chevening is looking for individuals who will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
Due to my own strong commitment I started taking responsibility of my father's business "Wais and sons Blacksmith workshop" from the year 2006 to 2009 and that time we were having almost 30 people working under one workshop floor, I was managing on how to receiving customer orders, processing their jobs, directing responsible staff and finally delivering customer vehicles and taking feedbacks, I worked as a team leader with all the staff, and could handle the business through the year with great coordination with employees. The company's turnover increased by 45% from 3.3 million rupees to 4.8 million in the years between 2006 to 2009.
During my studies where I was the topper of my batch receive an offer from one of the RMA Group Afghanistan managers to work with them; from 2011 up to 2013 I served as a service advisor with the mentioned company.
At this stage I was responsible for the workshop in receiving customers' vehicles, processing Job cards, preparing quotations and invoices, there was almost 5 work centers which worked under my lead (blacksmith, denter, painter, mechanic, electrician).
In the period I was hired, due to better coordination and cooperation, proper management and increased efficiency in the workshop, RMA Afghanistan got a huge contract of U.S Army for their vehicle maintenance and repair worth $ 4.5 million , Sterling Demining vehicle maintenance contract, German and Polish Embassy vehicle maintenance contract and local private customers which worth huge amount of money for the company.
From October, 2013 up to now I am working as an office administrator at Chief of Staff Office, Ministry of National Defense Afghanistan, when I join the ministry every task or work was done manually and per day approximately 300 to 350 official documents were processed.
I advised the them to initiate a project of automation for that they have assigned me for the job of automation of the office documents, during that I have developed a centralized Database system in order to computerized all the data entry at one place and could be utilized at other terminals, this I could complete with the help of MS Excel and RDMS system.
With the help of this system all the necessary department wise and directorate reports are generated automatically. It is worth mentioning that this Database has been developed by me free of cost and lead maintained by me where 80 percent of the total employees of the office take advantage of it. Further I plan to develop a feedback and online application system for ministry of national defense which will reduce the crowed.
in the year 2016 due to enlargement of road and dispute between the two village tribe, at Panjsher province, water brook was destroyed and was left as destroyed for the last five years before 2016, due to which no irrigation was there for the mentioned period for almost 20 hectare land and approximately 1500 trees, after the detailed discussion and negotiation I could convinced both the tribes for release of water supply.
The project cost $ 18500.00 which was approved by Chief Executive of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and helped in the community at large which ended in mid 2016, ultimately the trees were successfully grown and land were irrigated on the other hand the farmers could earn their livelihood.
my work in Afghanistan
Chevening is looking for individuals who will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
Due to my own strong commitment I started taking responsibility of my father's business "Wais and sons Blacksmith workshop" from the year 2006 to 2009 and that time we were having almost 30 people working under one workshop floor, I was managing on how to receiving customer orders, processing their jobs, directing responsible staff and finally delivering customer vehicles and taking feedbacks, I worked as a team leader with all the staff, and could handle the business through the year with great coordination with employees. The company's turnover increased by 45% from 3.3 million rupees to 4.8 million in the years between 2006 to 2009.
During my studies where I was the topper of my batch receive an offer from one of the RMA Group Afghanistan managers to work with them; from 2011 up to 2013 I served as a service advisor with the mentioned company.
At this stage I was responsible for the workshop in receiving customers' vehicles, processing Job cards, preparing quotations and invoices, there was almost 5 work centers which worked under my lead (blacksmith, denter, painter, mechanic, electrician).
In the period I was hired, due to better coordination and cooperation, proper management and increased efficiency in the workshop, RMA Afghanistan got a huge contract of U.S Army for their vehicle maintenance and repair worth $ 4.5 million , Sterling Demining vehicle maintenance contract, German and Polish Embassy vehicle maintenance contract and local private customers which worth huge amount of money for the company.
From October, 2013 up to now I am working as an office administrator at Chief of Staff Office, Ministry of National Defense Afghanistan, when I join the ministry every task or work was done manually and per day approximately 300 to 350 official documents were processed.
I advised the them to initiate a project of automation for that they have assigned me for the job of automation of the office documents, during that I have developed a centralized Database system in order to computerized all the data entry at one place and could be utilized at other terminals, this I could complete with the help of MS Excel and RDMS system.
With the help of this system all the necessary department wise and directorate reports are generated automatically. It is worth mentioning that this Database has been developed by me free of cost and lead maintained by me where 80 percent of the total employees of the office take advantage of it. Further I plan to develop a feedback and online application system for ministry of national defense which will reduce the crowed.
in the year 2016 due to enlargement of road and dispute between the two village tribe, at Panjsher province, water brook was destroyed and was left as destroyed for the last five years before 2016, due to which no irrigation was there for the mentioned period for almost 20 hectare land and approximately 1500 trees, after the detailed discussion and negotiation I could convinced both the tribes for release of water supply.
The project cost $ 18500.00 which was approved by Chief Executive of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and helped in the community at large which ended in mid 2016, ultimately the trees were successfully grown and land were irrigated on the other hand the farmers could earn their livelihood.