Hi guys! I wanted to have a chevening award. I need your help for some corrections/suggestions with my answers in the 3 questions. (1 at a time please )
1. Leadership and Influencing skills: 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.
It's always been my passion to be a leader, to influence and motivate others. I believe that a good leader must possess an exemplary character, which means that I have to be trustworthy to lead others. Hence, my first leadership experience was when I led my basketball team during high school tournaments and was awarded as the Most Valuable Player. Later on, I was selected to be one of the national team players in Libya, played as the Team Captain, and was able to compete overseas. Despite the fact that I was studying that time in my chosen field which was Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery, I managed my time, have the flexibility, and stay committed with the team and had the chance to play in Tunisia in my 4th and 5th year in medicine last 2010 &2011, Turkey in the year 2013 and last January 2014, our team competed in Arab Teams in Dubai.
Talking about work experience, I used to work in Libyan Air Ambulance as a Critical Care Doctor. I used to transfer two life-threatening cases alone simultaneously. I was the one responsible to arrange and coordinate with healthcare facilities inside and outside Libya, like Tunisia, Turkey, Malta & Jordan regarding the transport of the patients which gave me a broad horizon on how to deal with stressful situations, to lead a group with enthusiasm and courage.
During my work in Ali Omar Askaar Neuro Hospital as a Senior Doctor in Intensive Care Unit (Adult Critical Care), I was the prime facilitator of the CODE BLUE Team which will respond to patients having cardiopulmonary arrest and in need of immediate medical attention. Last April 2014, I was among the five doctors who were selected to be part of the 10th EMIRATES CRITICAL CARE CONFERENCE held in Dubai.
Recently, I am working as a full time doctor in International Medical Corporations which is a global humanitarian organization that provides disaster relief, delivers health care to underserved regions, builds clinics, etc. At first, I was a Sea Rescue Doctor assigned in Tripoli for one year, then I was promoted to be the Supervisor in all Sea Rescue Team, Detention Center Team & On-Call Emergency Team. I am the one leading all these teams, doing the courtesy calls, monthly & weekly reports,coordinating with NGO's (Non-Governmental Organizations), educating the team as well as the respondents, etc. which has the aim to provide quality health care to all the clients, like immigrants, detainees, refugees and internally displaced people in Libya. I was also chosen to be the representative of IMC during the Symposium about Child Protection, Gender Based Violence, and Project Manager in Tunisia last May 2016.
Furthermore, I want to be the source of inspiration to my team. I always have the confidence to lead and set direction to complete the task well. I am committed to excellence, and maintains high standards, but is also proactive in raising the bars in order to maintain the excellence in all areas of our wo
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4783 Haitem, while I understand how proud you are of becoming a member of your national team during all those years, unless you were more than a team member, meaning, you had to be the team captain, it does not really carry a relevance to the prompt question as there are no references to your leading the team in the statement. Unfortunately, being a team captain in high school is not impressive at all, even if you did receive an award as MVP because that reference is too early in your life to represent your actual leadership abilities.
With regards to your professional career, you present very rudimentary information in terms of office work that your leadership skills get lost in the narration. As I read your descriptions, you made the jobs sound so easy that you could do it with your eyes closed. That is not how the essay should sound.
This leadership essay needs to inform about your abilities to handle stress, pressure, uncertain circumstances, sudden obstacles in your path, and other related information. Therefore, your explanations should carry references to direct conflicts in the performance of your duties and a representation of how you resolved the problem. Remember, the essay requires you to explain why you embody the leadership traits that Chevening expects of its scholars. In this case, there is no true reference to those skills because you made your jobs sound so easy.
Holt Educational Consultant - / 14,835 4783 I'll look forward to reading the other two essays. From what I can tell, our forum admin deleted the other two essays from this original thread because each thread should only have one essay posted at a time. So you need to post 2 new threads, one each for your remaining essays. I will gladly review those once you have them posted.
In the meantime, let me give you an overview of the criteria that you need in order to properly write those essays. For the networking answer, make sure that the information you deliver clearly cites an example of how you develop your network. Make sure that it is a strong example and not just a series of overviews in relation to the final outcome of the networking action. For the university essay, make sure you are direct to the point and you have each university represented with a concentration on the reason why you chose the university, the programs you look forward to participating in, and its relation to your previous academic and professional experience. It should be one paragraph per university. I'll await the posting of your other 2 essays (in separate threads).
