Scholarship / My step into the road... Does it look like an anecdote? If it's so, will it be incorrect? [2]

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 for the future.

My academic goals are signified by two essential factors; my previous academic discipline and the recently developed professional experience. The substantial relation between these two factors and my higher education interests is based on key facts that led to these choices.

First of all, when I chose to study English in university, I was completely convinced that it is the first step into the road of international interaction and global business because no matter the cultural background of the foreigner person you are dealing with, you can easily assume that English is the language he can manage to speak and do the business you are involved in.

Another distinctive feature of my previous degree in English language and the remarkable impact it would have on my future studies in business and management is that major subjects in grammar, linguistics, and phonetics were taught to us with many different subjects in order to comprehend all aspects of English and be specialized in these fields. The benefits of the above-mentioned courses and how they can facilitate studying various topics emerge at the moment they come to practice; writing case studies definitely requires good grammar and well-structured essays, selecting vocabularies and crafting ideas smoothly would be essential component of a thesis, the ability to recognize a professor's intonation would make incoming information delve easily into my mind.

The second factor behind searching and selecting courses focusing on business analysis, international business, and international management is the professional experience and job positions I have undertaken. In the last four positions I worked for, there was a common point in all of them which is working in companies which basically deal with foreigners and this relates one more time to the idea of multi-cultural backgrounds and people from around the globe and the necessity of international language to connect with them and be able to offer them what they are looking for. This elaborated the decision of seeking higher degrees in international business to understand thoroughly external environments which will tell us about attitudes, beliefs, and opinions important to business people.

Another fact worthy of mentioning is when I used to be responsible for sales teams, being the leader who should manage and monitor them in order to catch targets and achieve goals, this was a motivation for me to be more inclined to managerial positions and emphasized the importance of directing people in a proper way to be successful in the future. In other words, these kinds of positions bolstered my desire significantly to study international management and human resource approaches.

The past is part and parcel of my future and I will always take my previous experiences into consideration for the future plans. I hope I will be able to share all the expertise and knowledge accumulated through my life whether by sharing academic knowledge with fresh students or applying the concepts and methods together with organizations and companies in order to build better communities and help needed societies.

Scholarship / One day I'll go back to my war-torn country Syria - country that needs real leaders and action doers [4]

the clock is ticking is coming, shall go i with these essays !:)

Chevening is looking for individuals that 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.

Leadership has been always a word that comprises wide notions and pivotal standards by which humanity evolves and leaders inspire future generations and influence them to the road of prosperity.

To be a successful leader or to earn this stature in the first place, you have to acquire certain skills that enable you to act and behave according to this position.

I think and my thoughts pertain to my previous situations where I experienced leadership positions, that the first skill helped me to proceed with other members and gain their trust is strong ethics and morals and my persisting inner stimulus to keep me attached to these values. With such values, I can create an environment of mutual trust and commitment to fairness and equity among my team. To be more specific about these general aspects, when I say the word fair; I avoid every single factor that might be the reason to take a decision on someone while this factor has nothing to do with a person's assessment or qualification and the first factor to mention is people from other religions or ethnicity.

The second skill that I like to apply especially in serious situations is sharing the responsibility among my team, though it does not display me as helpless or incapable of solving the problem, it allows the team to be more productive and unleashes their potential for creativity. This works as an empowerment and encouragement for teams to be more proactive and makes them feel that they are the keystone of this entity and without their contribution, a mission can never be accomplished. In the same time, I think that such kinds of skills and initiatives enable employees to feel secure in their workplace and consider it as a confirmation of belonging to where they work.

Last but not least, I followed a personal style that characterized me with a positive attitude; this was my secret to keep my team motivated towards the continued success of our company and keep the energy levels up. I try to undertake all kinds of initiatives with my team whether it means to have a snack together, a cup of coffee or asking a simple question about their life outside the office without invading their privacy, at the end, we are social species. By doing this again and again I found out that my good relationship with a team member was the reason for him/her to stay that extra half an hour to complete a report for example. In other words, it was not just a matter of duties and rights, it was about giving due to satisfaction.

One day I will go back to my war-torn country Syria, a country that needs real leaders and action doers who will always be ready to start initiatives seeking society reformation, a country that is urgently looking for influencers capable of disseminating morals and ethics. I see myself standing among these leaders and I see that day is coming soon.

Scholarship / I am quite social and I need Chevening to understand this. What do you say about the following essay [3]

Chevening is looking for individuals with strong networking skills, who will engage ...

As human beings, we cannot live in this world without social networks, this driving force that necessitates people to participate in surrounding communities and the thrust that pushes them to sustain and get the chance to be active members and productive in their societies.

I consider networking as the renewable resource by which I can cultivate relationships that help me to thrive and learn more about day-to-day opportunities which fit into my field of interests.

My networking skill set characterizes me with being the initiative- taker for building relations with people especially with foreigners coming from different education backgrounds and cultures. I always have the objective of creating comprehensive networks to share information, updates, and upcoming events that might be an interest for any member of this network. Meeting foreigners on a daily basis made me develop a personal technique I call "the effective five minutes' talk" from which I can recognize and understand a person's education, job field and interests. I depend on making the conversation focuses on our previous education, what kind of job we do for a living, and what is the thing that pushed this person to come and get the service we offer in my workplace. The results of such kind of actions can affect individuals and help them to discover new things easily and the outcome might be really an adding value to people's lives in an authentic way. One example I would like to mention when I was talking to a client visiting us in my previous workplace, he recommended Manchester university in which he studied and attained his MBA degree, he shared this information with me after I told him that I am planning to continue my higher education in the UK.

The next skill I always work on to make it like a habit is positive thinking toward every new contact or relationship built. I look beyond the short-term result of this new movement; a new business opportunity can be achieved from a simple chat with a senior officer. I consider connecting as building professional networks rather than just a casual acquaintance and I approach networking process with a greater sense of purpose. In other words, I anticipate this process with positive and optimistic conceive and turning points in my life can happen in result of meeting new people from different disciplines. This attribute prompts me to connect with a strong concentration on business development rather than doing the duties I am supposed to do; it charges me with the zeal to grow my network and generate new leads that would be an invaluable asset to the organization I work for and another accomplishment added to my interpersonal skills.

I hope to share the benefits of these skills with the Chevening community I will be engaged with and try as much as I can to enhance their skills depending on proven examples related to our profession and provide them with workplace incidents that clarify what credits these skills can add to people.

Scholarship / British university graduate - my essay for Chevening scholarship [5]

Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Please outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer term career goals. You may wish to consider how these relate to what the UK government is doing in your country.

My answer:

Upon graduation day and the time of packing my suitcase returning back to Syria comes, I hope that the current situation has come to an end and the process of rebuilding the country has begun. My immediate career plan is to return to my hometown, an ancient metropolis and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It makes me sad to say that at this time, Aleppo is distinguished as the most vandalized city since the WWII.

I plan to get involved in humanitarian work specifically in supply chain management and logistics since the country and particularly my city is heavily laden with human crises and more volunteers are urgently required to help those in desperate need. What my one-year master study in Britain relates to that is when being a Chevening Alumni and a UK university graduate; this will enhance my competencies to search and become a member of any British special committee or organization offering aid and food supplies to the refugee's camps located near the borders of Turkey. The UK's membership of the International Syria Support Group has many notable actions to be recognized whether politically or through humanitarian assistance; The UK has committed £2.3bn of humanitarian aid to the region since the start of the conflict and has partners working on the Syrian ground like the British Red Cross and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent partnership.

I look for accomplishments in reaching secluded areas and entering humanitarian aids to besieged territories where people are in danger of death due to hunger and extreme lack of pure water and medicines. Furthermore, I will strive to launch initiatives with the help of NGOs to stop depriving civilians of their basic rights of food and medical needs. These goals can only be achieved by a senior international consultant who is competent in the field of strategic management and can propose sound and effective policies to determine the required actions resulting in task achievement.

In the long run, I see myself running senior roles as diverse as international supply chain management, business development, and management consultancy. I am the type of person who likes to get the instructions and then be left by myself or with a group to do the assignment or task. The authority and innovation that features these positions make it incumbent on me to become an expert in these fields and become a successful decision maker.