Scholarship / For Chevening - Networking at different levels [4]

Hi, can anyone please kindly comment on my essay

Chevening is looking for individuals with strong networking skills, who will engage with the Chevening community and influence and lead others in their chosen profession. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your networking skills, and outline how you hope to use these skills in the future.

I have networking experience

Networking is one of the vital skills a leader needs to have. Throughout my lives, I had a fair share of networking along the road. Be it on personal and professional level.

I had my undergraduate study abroad in Egypt, which I believe played a major role in sharpening my networking skills. I was one of the few international students who joined local students' association activities and building ties with them. And during those years, at my own initiatives, I joined a few international summer schools; one was in Hiroshima, and another one in Indonesia. I made a lot of international friends there many of which are now budding medical officers in their respective countries. I still keep in touch with many of them.

During summer holidays, when I was back in Malaysia, I made contact with local NGOs namely MERCY and MAKNA to initiate collaboration with the club I pioneered in Egypt. Though the collaboration project didn't happen eventually, my friends and I managed to do a few volunteering works with the NGOs.

And currently, being a medical officer who is specifically involved with the community-based health awareness team, I have a very good network with the local people. Throughout programs held, I built ties with the local people who range from rubber tappers to officers and teachers. But most importantly I get to build my network connection with the village heads, which really made a difference. In villages, the success and effectiveness of a health program indirectly relate to the involvement of the village head in the program held, especially if the program involves aborigine villages. I also made networking with few politicians who served the area. This served a great purpose as most of our health programs will be supported by them.

I believe the networking I had currently and in the past served as a good foundation for me to develop further networking in the future. Especially that I have experience networking with variety of people at different walks of life.