Scholarship / A good leader must be a good communicator, good motivator, an impactful and inspirational person [5]

Hi all. I am applying for Chevening scholarship. Please help me to review my essay.

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.

I learned how to be a leader

In my opinion, a good leader must have the ability to be a good communicator,impactful , good motivator and inspirational. Everytime I come to a new place, the most thing I would look for is finding new friends and participating in a community. I believe when I have a good community, I also have good environment which would lead me to create good personalities, build network and strengthen leadership skill. Being a president of religious organization (XXX) in campus in my second year of study was a most memorable thing in my life. It was not easy to be a woman leader which I had to organize people with different characters and grades. Before I was opted as a president, I found that most students only participated in our routine worship and then go home without willing to socialize with other students or members of this organization. It realized me that those students could have been mingled among them and made many better changes for this organization and themselves. Together with my members, we made a new vision which was not only focused on building spiritual life but also developing relationship inside and out of campus. We also expected this organization could help students to improve personalities, skill and knowledge by sharing experience between the students.

To achive this vision, with our approching to students, we directly made small fellowship groups which there students could share and consult with our members. On this groups, they could consult about their personal problem directly. In two months, it got good response and many students came and join with these groups. Finally, student could interact and build relationship among them either in or out of our formal events. As other concern, we also made study discussion group, which also attracted people outside XXX joining with this group. Cooperation was one of the conclusive evidence of this development. At certain times, together with non-member XXX we made social events such as visiting orphanage and food distribution to street people. Since that time, XXX is not only oriented to the members, but also relationship with surrounding.

I was very happy that personal improvement came to each of them. The changes developed their academic, self-confidence, personalities and social skill. I also witnessed some of my junior's characters were changed to be much better. They even get good job and life now. Now, XXX starts enhancing its relationship with students from other universities and conduct certain events.

XXX was like second family for me. Through XXX, I learned and got many things. I learned how to be a leader, how to deal with many people with different character, manage time, share and solve problem. This experience really formed me be person with better personalities and it helped me a lot in my first career. XXX is my first step to start my career.

Scholarship / NETWORKING SKILL IN RAISING FUND FOR AN EVENT [6]

NETWORKING SKILL IS BENEFICIAL

Hi all, please help me to review my essay. This is for Chevening application. I appreciate your advice. Thank you

Chevening is looking for individuals with strong professional relationship building skills, who will engage with the Chevening community and influence and lead others in their chosen profession. Please explain how you build and maintain relationships in a professional capacity, using clear examples of how you currently do this, and outline how you hope to use these skills in the future. (minimum word count: 100 words; maximum word count: 500 words)

We human are social beings, who are not able to live alone in this earth. It means that one day we definitely need help from others. I love building relationship with others and develop connection . In my view, strong networking is started from communication, sharing and stay connected. Making new friends would widen networking and be highly helpful in the future. Furthermore, the more people I meet, the more things I learn. Everyone has different experience and background, by sharing those diversity will teach me new things.

My networking have developed since I joined and became a president of XXX, a spiritual organization in my campus. I started developing relationship with my juniors and seniors, lecturers, students from other organizations, alumni and students from other campus. For instance, I regularly made appointment with alumni to discuss about this community, their works and others. I also sometimes invited them to have a brainstorm and solve problems together with other members. Aside from organisation matters, I used to spend time with them to talk and share either personal or community things.

Many benefits I got from the networking I built, particularly when I and members were planning to hold a big event, campus Christmas celebration. Since many people would attend this event, we surely needed a large amount of money to hold this event. As a leader of XXX, I was responsible to find way to raise funds. I and members decided to submit proposals to my networking, alumni and lecturers, through whom finally I also could get more donors. With their recommendation, we were allowed to spread our proposals to their workplaces, their friends or other lecturers. I realized that we could not depend merely on proposals, therefore we decided to get fund by selling calenders. Again, with my networking, we successfully sold calenders to students from other campus and members of other organizations. In addition, I was even acquainted with new friends through them. As a result, unexpectedly all money we got from fundraising was surplus. Meanwhile, I and members decided to use it to do charity with providing meals for poor street people in some areas. To appreciate help and maintain good connection, the donors and some students were also invited to serve together in this charity activity. I was really glad of support from my networking, which finally assisted us to reach our goals to succeed the event.

I believe that networking is one of the keys to reach our goals. Building networking for life is not an instant thing, which imply that It does not come at once and we need process to maintain it. If I study in UK, I will meet many people from people other countries. It means I will be able to broaden my networking with those who are in same interest with me, particularly scholars and alumni in Chevening community. Through them, I could assist my other networking in my country to implement good corporate governance and resolve its issues.

Graduate / An accountant - Statement of Purpose for applying Master [2]

sop for Msc Accounting, Governance and Financial Management

Hi all, I am applying for Msc Accounting, Governance and Financial Management in University of XXX. This is my Statement of Purpose. Please help me to review this essay. I really need advice in the whole content. Thank you in advance

Please type in or upload a statement in support of your application (min. 300 words).
Among the things you may wish to include are:
·why you are applying for this course
·how your previous education and experience relates to this course of study
·how this course fits into your long-term academic or career plans

My experience as an accountant for more than five years has made me realize that competitiveness and sustainability are key to a company's success. In order to maximize my role in business, I want to develop my career in business sustainability. Companies need to consider not only profit but also the interest of stakeholders, environment and society to sustain themselves in this globalized economy. One important tool to meet such a need is a corporate governance. A system or procedure of how company is governed to increase the confidence of investors and society and to deliver success in the long run. Furthermore, good governance will also create conducive investment climate and promote economic growth. Organizations in (Y country) face a great challenge of practicing good corporate governance, as many assume that such is the domain of only public-listed companies. This issue has inspired me to become a champion for corporate governance and it should be practiced widely to help companies leverage sustainability to increase their financial performance.

For this reason, I would like to apply for a Msc degree in Accounting, Governance and Financial Management at the University of XXX. This programme offers a complex structure of financial management aspect of corporate governance in diverse organizations. Besides a theory-led approach, it also provides practical based modules through seminars, group-projects and real-life case studies of both corporate governance and financial management which will best suit my career-goals. My undergraduate experience, I believe has provided me with a solid foundation of accounting, economic and finance. My professional experience has introduced me to the concept of business sustainability that is intertwined with the accounting dimension of a business and sustainable management and corporate finance. During my graduate degree, I would like to gain broader knowledge of International Corporate Governance, under the supervision of Professor ABC, a lecturer and researcher who discusses all aspects of corporate governance, accountability and sustainability issues in accounting and financial management. I believe through her knowledge and experience, I will benefit my future career.

In the last two years, I have attended tax course which studied about tax planning, tax regulation, tax practice and tax report. Through this lesson, I achieved broadly the understanding of issues and problem solving in tax implementation of business which also will affect to organizational decision-making. During my job-career, I have been working as an accountant and tax supervisor who has responsibility of financial function, financial performance and tax planning for monthly tax report. Aside than my main job description as an accountant, I am also responsible for the function of inventory control. As a controller, I have found that inventory control is an important thing in business operational which is intertwined with profitability and company performance. Applying inventory control inefficiently will lead to either understocking or overstocking. Understocking will run risk of missing out favorable prices; in occasion, company can secure better price by buying sooner rather than later. In addition, it will reduce company credibility in consumer insight because of late services. Buying too much inventory also will tie up cash in inventory that will not be used in long term. Moreover, overstocking could result damage because of storing inventory in long time. I feel enthusiastic that with my knowledge, professional experience, academic rigor from graduate degree and my passion for business sustainability development in (Y country) will enable me to reach my aspiration.

If I am granted the opportunity to study Msc Accounting, Governance and Financial Management at University of XXX, upon graduation, I am confidently able to implement and promote corporate governance framework and evaluate effectively policies and procedures of the company I will work. Furthermore, the understanding of combination knowledge of accounting, corporate governance and financial management will benefit me to tackle business issues related to financial performance and business sustainability and find problem solving. For long-term career, my graduate degree will also effectively boost my professional career as a business sustainability specialist. I will help diverse businesses in (Y country) and promote innovative and sustainable solution for business long-term goals to attain sustainability.