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)
I always love to meet new people everyday. I believe that one of the fastest ways to grew up knowledge and experience is to learn from other people. Moreover, among the knowledge gained, expanding networking also allow me to reach opportunities that a sole person have never thought.
Back in 2015, when I joined X, I also participated in X progran which is orientation for new employee with different educational background in different business units. The bootcamp not only gave a brief introduction to business units of Siam Cement Group, but also created strong connection between employee. After the orientation finished, I moved back to Head Office and resumed normal working life. However, I still keep in touch with new friends and colleagues I had known from the camp. If there is any occasion they might have come to the Head Office in Bangkok, I often meet them have some coffee and talk about how thing was going. In 2016, when I was a junior engineer, I had been assigned to scale up quicklime production from laboratory experiment. Instead of starting project from scratch, I had recalled that Pulp and paper, which is one business units of X, also used lime in their paper production plant. Here's where networking work, I asked my friends whom I known in orientation for an advice, visited their plant to observe their operation and discussed in detail about advantages and pain points of their process. Within a few days, with help of strong connection I were able to create a modification plan for existing unused plant. Unfortunately, shrinkage in demands caused the project to be suspended.
I had left X in 2018 to pursue a dream of being pilot. I was selected to be one of 100 candidates among almost 3,000 applicants and was granted a scholarship from Y to be trained for airline pilot. I am certain that myself alone would not have come this far without support from student pilot network. I met this connection when I was in recruitment process of Y and Z. The group regularly set up a workshop for knowledge sharing and preparation for each round of recruitment. I also have an opportunity to share knowledge in Physics and general science for those who are not familiar with science. Knowledge sharing atmosphere keep going from the day I got recruited through hard time during commercial pilot training. Even for present days, when each of us are working for different airlines in a difficult period of COVID-19 pandemic, the group is still active.
With these networks and the community of Chevening alumni which I am going to connect in the future, I hope to use the power of networking to recover aviation industry in Thailand (especially Y) and strengthen the growth of international air travel in post-COVID19 situation.
lessons from the others
I always love to meet new people everyday. I believe that one of the fastest ways to grew up knowledge and experience is to learn from other people. Moreover, among the knowledge gained, expanding networking also allow me to reach opportunities that a sole person have never thought.
Back in 2015, when I joined X, I also participated in X progran which is orientation for new employee with different educational background in different business units. The bootcamp not only gave a brief introduction to business units of Siam Cement Group, but also created strong connection between employee. After the orientation finished, I moved back to Head Office and resumed normal working life. However, I still keep in touch with new friends and colleagues I had known from the camp. If there is any occasion they might have come to the Head Office in Bangkok, I often meet them have some coffee and talk about how thing was going. In 2016, when I was a junior engineer, I had been assigned to scale up quicklime production from laboratory experiment. Instead of starting project from scratch, I had recalled that Pulp and paper, which is one business units of X, also used lime in their paper production plant. Here's where networking work, I asked my friends whom I known in orientation for an advice, visited their plant to observe their operation and discussed in detail about advantages and pain points of their process. Within a few days, with help of strong connection I were able to create a modification plan for existing unused plant. Unfortunately, shrinkage in demands caused the project to be suspended.
I had left X in 2018 to pursue a dream of being pilot. I was selected to be one of 100 candidates among almost 3,000 applicants and was granted a scholarship from Y to be trained for airline pilot. I am certain that myself alone would not have come this far without support from student pilot network. I met this connection when I was in recruitment process of Y and Z. The group regularly set up a workshop for knowledge sharing and preparation for each round of recruitment. I also have an opportunity to share knowledge in Physics and general science for those who are not familiar with science. Knowledge sharing atmosphere keep going from the day I got recruited through hard time during commercial pilot training. Even for present days, when each of us are working for different airlines in a difficult period of COVID-19 pandemic, the group is still active.
With these networks and the community of Chevening alumni which I am going to connect in the future, I hope to use the power of networking to recover aviation industry in Thailand (especially Y) and strengthen the growth of international air travel in post-COVID19 situation.
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