Scholarship / The strong career plan must depend on the person's skills, qualifications, and experience. CHEVENING [2]

this is my statement about my career plan for the chevening scholarship. your help would be appreciated.

The strong career plan must depend on the person's skills, qualifications, and experience in order to achieve his ambition in life. For me, my personal estimation of a rewarding career is when I am engaged in ensuring that Egypt's ambitious development goals are not just wishful thinking.

Based on this estimation, my immediate plan after I return to my home country is to help in developing the marketing plans and strategies for my employer Egypt Post. As a governmental organization, its work of providing postal and non-banking financial services for individuals and institutions relates to my entrepreneurial vision and my end-career goal of being a marketing consultant. I plan to work as head of Planning in the marketing department at Egypt Post. This position will give me the required authority to identify and develop the marketing strategies for Egypt Post with advanced marketing practices and theories orientation. Moreover, this position will allow me to broaden my network with many influential people, including business owners and government officials. After two years, I aspire to grow with the company and move into the role of a manager where I will lead projects as well as manage and coach teammates.

Seven years after, I see myself as an expert and marketing consulter in The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. At the same time, I will start my own business with the mission to help small and medium enterprises become more competitive and ease aspiring entrepreneurs to do business that boosts local employment, which will eventually improve economic. In terms of the academic path, I am planning to get a doctorate degree in business administration after ten years.

In addition to my work, I also intend to start a social project to combat terrorism. The project aims to educate young people about the dangers of terrorism, fight the ideas of extremism and violence and refuting the advertising launched by terrorist groups among young people. This project will cooperate with religious institutions, scientists, psychologists, artists and athletes to launch awareness campaigns against terrorism in schools, universities, and youth groups. The project will also organize cultural, sports and artistic activities to promote the ideas of peace and social reconciliation and acceptance of others.

In essence, while securing an eminent position in a renowned governmental organization like Egypt Post or The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology can be very competitive, I firmly believe that with my miscellaneous and invaluable experience in the UK, I will be able to distinguish myself from others and accomplish what I want to carry out in the future, ultimately making an impact on Egypt socioeconomic development. I understand that in my journey to achieve my dreams, there will be obstacles along the road. However, I know that it is up to me to utilize all opportunities and even make my own. After all, It takes a painfully long process for a caterpillar to metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly; all great things in the world take time.

Scholarship / There are many internal and external circumstances and motivations that can make a leader. Chevening [2]

Leadership and influencing essay for Chevening

this is my essay about my leadership skills for chevening scholarship. Any help will be appreciated.

I believe that there is no one was born a leader but there are many internal and external circumstances and motivations that can make a leader. For me, it was my passion to make a difference in the other's lives what makes me a leader.

At the university, many student activities attracted me to engage in. But these activities did not meet the desires of a large group of students. This motivated me to create a student troupe under my leadership aims to develop the capabilities and skills of the students by organizing a variety of social, sports, cultural activities and trips. Leading my troupe's negotiations with the university successfully to get financial support for our activities was a good challenge showed my leadership skills. Our troupe participated in Egyptian universities youth week which was held in 2009 at Mansoura University, and we won awards in this event .

My current job as a customer service supervisor leading a team of 15 agents represents a challenge to my leadership skills. The effective communication with my team members is my priority, which I work hard to achieve by listening to their problems and helping them to solve it, and I always tell them not to hesitate to ask for advice from me. Through the exchange of roles between team members and giving priority to the team's interests, the level of cooperation and harmony between the team members raised. In 2015, My team won The Best Customer Service Team Award in XXX.

An effective leader must delegate his authorities and prepare a second row of the leaders who are trained and ready to assume leadership positions in the future. So I launched a new system which called "the leader - agent exchange system". This system exchanging roles between the supervisor and one agent for five days a month. This system helps the agents and the supervisor to identify the tasks and problems of both jobs.

When I was promoted to the position of supervisor, it was hard to deal with the tasks, responsibilities, and authorities that accompany this job. I Committed to eliminate this problem by training agents to the supervisor job through the leader - agent exchange system. Initially, agents refused it because of fear of taking responsibility. This problem was cured by supporting and motivating the agents through the training, and convincing them that the system will give them a great opportunity to upgrade. Over a year all agents in my team involved in the leader - agent exchange system. A year later, the system has achieved amazing positive results therefor it has been applied in all customer service teams, and has been applied in various departments in XXX.

I have a passion to become a leader who influences his surrounding community and makes a better future for his country. This passion motivated me to apply for the Chevening scholarship.

Scholarship / Chevening; networking is a vital and important issue in the life of any successful person [2]

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I need your help in this essay. your advice would be highly appreciated.

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.

this is my essay:

I believe that networking is a vital and important issue in the life of any successful person, and I am counting on it to achieve my goals.

In the university, being a leader of a student troupe helped me to build a strong network with my classmates. I worked hard to expand my relationships outside the university. In the graduation year, I attended many employment meetings and conferences.

Using my networking skills, I got a training opportunity in (xxx). Highlighting myself during the training period gave me a chance to establish a good relationship with the (xxx) staff . At the end of training, The Customer Service Director praised my skills and my potentials. When (xxx) needed to hire customer service agents, they called me for the interview. My networking skills helped me again to have the job.

My current job as customer service supervisor in (xxx) depends on the networking skills. Achieving the tasks requires an extensive and strong network in the various departments of (xxx). For that, I am involved in all meetings, concerts, and social events organized by (xxx). Besides being a member of the organizing committee for sports competitions, I am a chess player in the chess team. I use the sports events to communicate informally with my colleagues.

When my team won The Best Customer Service Team Award in 2015, managers and team leaders wanted to communicate with me and my team to learn from our experiences and How we did it? This was our chance to establish new contacts and Support existing networks.

I am determined to communicate with my university colleagues. I and a group of my colleagues in collaboration with the University of Helwan organized a Former Classmates Meeting in Cairo in July 2015 attended by 300 guests. As one of the organizers of this meeting, I presented the opening speech. In this meeting, we wanted to strengthen, support and update the connection between the former Classmates. This meeting was very fruitful. Colleagues who starting new projects or facing specific problems in their business, they could take advantage of the previous experiences with their colleagues. This meeting helped some of our colleagues who was searching for new jobs. At the end of the meeting, I came out with a stronger and up to date network.

The Voluntary work at Resala Charity Organization gives me a network stretching in a different age, social and cultural groups. In Resala Charity Organization, many people influenced my life and taught me the value and importance of voluntary work, and then it was my turn to influence others, guide them and attract them to voluntary work.

I am committed and passionate to enrich my networking, experience, and knowledge and transfer them to help thousands of Egyptian youth. In addition, I would devote my time to cooperate with the Chevening alumni in Egypt to achieve Youth empowerment and to support development in Egypt.

Scholarship / If I cannot do giant jumps, I can make a small step forward every day. CHEVENING [4]

When I was a student in high school, there were words written on the board "If you want to achieve things of value in your life you must first be a person of value from your point of view across your self-development" . Through these words, I learned that to be a true leader I must be able to lead myself first, self-leadership to achieve self-development.

At the university I was an active member of many student activities until I became a leader of a student troupe aims to develop the capabilities and skills of the students by organizing a variety of social, sports, cultural activities and trips, camps, and various arts programs. In the final year at the university, I joined the students' union.

I joined the conscription in the Egyptian armed forces after college . The work in the armed forces is based on teamwork and team spirit. The conscription has increased my confidence in myself, developed my communication and influence skills, and my ability to work under pressure.

I started working as a customer service agent in Egypt Post in 2011. In this job, I received 200 calls a day. And I have to deal with customers of different backgrounds cultured, educated, ignorant, polite and bad customers. Most of the calls the client is angry and sometimes cursing the company or the employee and I must absorb that anger and turn it to satisfaction and conviction. This job has increased my influence and leadership skills because I am dealing with a customer who is in another location and I communicate with him without seeing each other.

Currently, I am a customer service supervisor leading a team consists of 15 agents. We are working as a team to increase the level of customer satisfaction and achieve the highest response speed possible. I am always trying to achieve effective communication with my team, listen to their problems and help them to solve it, and I always tell them not to hesitate to ask for advice from me.

I believe that an effective leader must delegate his authorities and prepare a second row of the leaders who are trained and ready to assume leadership positions in the future. So I launched a new system which I called "the leader - agent exchange system". This system exchanging roles between the supervisor and one agent for three days a month. This system helps the agents and the supervisor to identify the tasks and problems of both jobs. A year later, the system has achieved amazing positive results so it has been applied in all customer service teams, and has been applied in various departments in the company.

I always say "If I cannot do giant jumps, I can step a small step forward every day". I am applying to CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIP to become a leader who can make a better future for his country.