Scholarship / My three courses choice to study Business analytics in the UK - essay for Chevening scholarship [4]

Studying in the UK - Chevening scholarship

Outline why you have selected your chosen three university courses and explain how this relates to your previous academic or professional experience and your plans. Please enter new information and examples here and not duplicate the information you have entered on the work experience and education section of this form (minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words).

I am applying to MS degree in Business analytics. I have chosen to apply to this course based on my previous academic and professional experience. After completion of under graduation, I joined Tata Consultancy Services. Here, I was trained in Business Intelligence and processing management (BIPM) for 2 months. Post training, I received an opportunity to work for Deutsche bank- A Germany based Investment banking. Here, I got to work on various tools and technologies including-Power BI, Informatica, SQL, Tableau and UNIX. I worked on designing modern Big Data ecosystem, analyzed the data and projected it in a way to provide business with better insights of their value chain. I conducted qualitative and quantitative studies in a structured way, suggesting areas of improvement and identifying opportunities/threats based on internal and external data sources, market trends and user behavior in an effort to strengthen efficiency and provide strategic direction.

This kind of analysis and work excited me and drove me towards the idea of gaining more skills and expertise. With my work experience of 60 months as a Business Analyst, I have become quite interested in this field. Now, I want to extend my knowledge in this field to fulfil my future career plan to work as a social entrepreneur. The business model of my organization is to get data from public and using this reliable data, we can aid public policy and drive social impact. Hence, I have decided to build upon my knowledge gained through the work experience by pursuing masters in the below mentioned universities-

My first choice is University of Manchester: Business Analytics: Operational Research and Risk Analysis. The course core module will equip me with risk performance, data analytics, applied statistics and decision analysis which will be helpful for starting my company as my business model is heavily data driven. So, it becomes imperative to have strong hold in core competency. My start-up comprising of web and mobile based application will provide solution to government agencies, NGOs, think tank, academician, and researcher. The core module 'Applied statistics and business forecasting' will help me in providing these organizations their future course of action and help government agencies to amend their policies. The reason for opting Manchester university is also because it will help me in my venture through 'Enterprise Centre' which helps me to interact with enterprises and to explore the possibility of starting my own company for which they have Venture Out and Venture Further competitions. Through Enactus MCR. I will get the chance to pitch my business idea as they encourage student for non-profit entrepreneurship. I will also get free start-up advice and patent for my business idea offered by Manchester central library.

My second choice is MSc in Business analytics at the University of Warwick. The university core module in Big data will help me in managing large data sets through which I can generate insights. I recently finished moocs course offered by Suzy Moat and Toabias Preis. I liked their way of teaching. It also offers descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics which will be helpful to get the insights of past, predicts what is most likely to happen in the future and recommends actions I can take to affect those outcomes. It offers to conduct external consultancy projects with a real client which will give me an industry exposure and increase my network. Through its QTEM Master network, I will get to join an exciting and growing elite network, acquire international experience. NAIC café will help me in socializing and growing my network.

My third choice is MSc in Business analytics and data science from the University of Leeds.
This university offers course in Machine learning which will be helpful in providing help to NGOs in predicting disease most likely to spread and in overcoming data void problems. Through Leeds data science society. I will be able to share an interest in big data and analytics.

It also provides forecasting and advanced business analytics.
Also, being based in Manchester, Warwick and Leeds provides me with the unprecedented opportunity to interact and learn from students from across the globe. These universities will also provide me an opportunity to build relationship with people from different cultures which will help me learn better and contribute to the society back home in India.

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Scholarship / My leadership journey for Chevening. [4]

Chevening is looking for individuals who will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries

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Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.

(minimum word count: 100 words, maximum word count: 500 words)

(According to UNICEF, 17.8 million Indian children remain out of school. The education crisis runs wide and deep in India. The pandemic has exacerbated this education crisis. Due to this covid-19 pandemic, the schools are now running online classes all over India but still a large section of underprivileged children is devoid of education. Seeing this issue, I joined World youth council, an organisation working for the development of youth through social campaigns designed for young people to bring change and work towards youth development through call to action. They started an initiative called Teach from Home.

As a part of this initiative, I found that they lack mobile phones and internet accessibility. Many of them had lost their interest in studies. Some due to unavailability of education were suffering from depression and mental health issue as they were worried about their future. I firstly arranged mobiles phones, internet connectivity and all the study materials for the kids through fund raising.

As I am working from 9-6 so I am teaching these kids daily in the evening and I am trying to make sure that their normal studies and examination do not get suffer due to pandemic. I am teaching these kids through zoom video conferencing. I am teaching currently to class 10th and 12th students who will be having their board examination. I opted for this classes as they will be going to join college and if they do not perform well in their examination then they will have to reappear, and this will jeopardize their career.

Till now I have taught 20 students from 4 different cities and I have also influenced these kids to teach to younger class kids who can benefit from them. Through various social network channel, I also asked volunteers to contribute. Thus, with the help of these students, I scaled the programme to 10 different schools and have also asked volunteers to find a child to teach. They can call their maids, milkmen, house guards, gardeners to ask if they have child or any child around who they can teach.

Recently, United nations celebrated its 75th Anniversary and to mark this occasion, the UN secretary general kicked off the largest ever global conversation to shape the future of UN and global governance. In this context, I took the initiative to join as a member of the National team under the UN75 consultation across the country through confederation of young leaders to shape the public discourse around United Nations and contribute to the conversation around the future of United Nations. To achieve this, I planned and executed UN75 dialogues around various themes. For e.g. SDGs, the role of youth in shaping international and national public discourse. I built state level teams to execute state specific dialogues which also helped in getting maximum and diverse responses for the central survey launched by the UN. I wrote articles, blogs, made audio/video content for promotion of United Nations' work and UN75.

I also got the chance to show international leadership through UNESCO's HackingDisinfodemic 2020 competition around media and information literacy. I was given the task to provide solution to combat online privacy and data protection infringements. As online privacy and data protection invasion has led to cyberbullying. As a solution, I built a web-based platform on which I was working for past 2 years. This web-based platform will provide chat with expert and revenge help porn centre. Through chat with expert feature, victim can chat online with psychologist/lawyer who they can trust. I also made sure that this application should be confidential and anonymous as many do not want to take the help of psychologist because of social stigma. I have also included educational resources to educate people about media and information literacy