Examples of networking skills in my career so far

Networking skills for Chevening

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.

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

My first networking in career happen on the very first week of me being a logistic pharmacist. It so happened at the time I registered for work was the exact time the hospital had run out of budget meaning purchasing drugs was out of the question. My only other option was to try to borrow what I required from nearby hospitals. Phone calls were made throughout the week, negotiating, bartering and referring to others that could help out also. From then on, I've frequently called upon this network in times when I've found myself stuck with a problem and they have seldom failed to respond. I am no longer working in logistic but I have maintained my relationship with people in this network.

My current role as a renal pharmacist has me working with dozens of medical practitioners ranging from those just starting their medical journey up to specialist and consultant. My time with them has help me increase my knowledge and also impart mine onto those that were still new. Over the 3 years I've work with the renal department, some of them stayed in nephrology whilst there were those that chose a different path; medical, pediatric, radiology etc. Although at the time they departed it seem saddening but their choice helped me extend my network further than nephrology. A personal experience of this network involved me calling upon one of the physician that had branch out into general medical field. My father had accidently been discharged from his regular follow up at the hospital medical outpatient department (MOPD) and was referred to a local clinic branch. Seeing that I needed to have a close monitoring of him, I asked for a favor from my physician colleague to re-admit him back and it was settled.

I am also participating in a national committee of renal pharmacist, each representing a state. In this committee, we discuss from time to time and organize conferences where we would often invite consultants from our respective hospital to share their knowledge and practice and thus extending our network in the process. We often help one another with problems arising in our hospital and refer to people that can help out.

Getting my Master degree in England would allow me to enrich my knowledge and allow me to cultivate best practices that I will encounter. Chevening scholarship would also allow me to network with the brightest minds and hopefully I in return would be able to provide mine with future scholars.

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@lymeq
Your essay is good in term of relating to networking in professional life, but I think it needs you to work more on how you developed and maintained your relationships with colleagues in the other hospitals to get the drug you didn't have, and in your renal department. Explain how did you work on that.

The last paragraph is weak, You need to explain how you hope to share this existing network with Chevening. Explain why you believe that your network is one that will withstand the test of time and also allow you to help the past and future Chevening scholars who are pharmacists as well.

A few amendments are below:
My first networking in career happen >> happened. if i were you I would rephrase it in this way >> My first career network was created/established on

My time with them has help me increase >> helped
Over the 3 years I've work with renal >> I would rephrase it to be >> Over a course of three years, I have worked with many colleagues in the renal.

Appreciate your time in reviewing my essays as well. Good luck!

Hidayah, in paragraph 2 separate the story about your father and the way that your network was able to help him during his time of medical need. Extend the scenario to indicate what kind of favor you requested of the physician and how, because of your network, the physician was able to make it happen. Also, a grammatical correction must be made. In the last sentence you can simply say "re-admit him" as "re-admit him back" is a redundancy. Since you are a member of a national committee, you should highlight that network by emphasizing how the Chevening scholars who are renal pharmacists will benefit from your national network. That is a highlight that should not be discussed in such a short manner. What kind of problems has this network been able to help you resolve? Give an example. Overall, this is much better than your first version, but it still needs some work.