I will apply for Chevening Scholarship soon for master degree in UK. For the Scholarship, I wrote essay about leadership and influencing skills below. My main idea about leadership is to make a new challenge which others around me have not done before me. it was not easy to write about leadership for me. Anyway, please check my essay and give me a feedback. Thanks a lot. ^^
Q. Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influences in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
I have started several challenges ahead of anyone around me with my strong belief that a challenge spirit is the most important quality to be a good leader, who influences on others not only for their personal development but also the improvement of the group they involved in.
For the first example of my challenges, before the end of my middle school, I decided to go to a famous high school in big city to enhance my competence for my future. No one has studied there before because it was far from my hometown, where most my friends spent all their childhood, and nobody wanted to take a risk of competing with new people in very strange place. Moreover, teachers in my hometown didn't recommend the high school without exact information and every parent also didn't want their boys and girls to live separately. However, I made up my own decision for my future in spite of their anxieties. In fact, it was my first own decision against my parents. After I enrolled in the high school and studied well there, from one year to another, the number of students who came from my middle school increased steadily. It showed obviously that my challenge and outcome made the junior students and the teachers in my middle school change greatly.
In addition, I was the first person among my high school alumni to be qualified with Certified Public Accountant(CPA) before my college graduation. Although most people agreed that the role of CPA, which conduct an audit the financial statement of listed companies, will be much more crucial than that of today in accordance with the growing capital market in Korea, nobody around me engaged in the CPA exam because it was not easy to study for, at least, two years for the exam. To tell the truth, I also was worried about same things but I was sure that it was worth enough investing my time and efforts. Thus, I demonstrated to overcome a challenge with our own best by making my successful results. I shared my experience with my friends and junior students who consider of CPA. Whenever I met my friends or junior colleagues, I told them that working as a CPA is beneficial for us not only to find job opportunity but also to make our own professionalism. Thus, some of them work as CPA in accounting firms and appreciated my helps to relive the uncertainty.
In conclusion, I have shown the strong decision for my future such as the experiences above. At this moment, I hope to find a new challenge which can make me a real leader in the future. I don't want to stay with my stable position to lose a great opportunity. I continue to challenge for what I've never experienced before.
Q. Chevening is looking for individuals that will be future leaders or influences in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
I have started several challenges ahead of anyone around me with my strong belief that a challenge spirit is the most important quality to be a good leader, who influences on others not only for their personal development but also the improvement of the group they involved in.
For the first example of my challenges, before the end of my middle school, I decided to go to a famous high school in big city to enhance my competence for my future. No one has studied there before because it was far from my hometown, where most my friends spent all their childhood, and nobody wanted to take a risk of competing with new people in very strange place. Moreover, teachers in my hometown didn't recommend the high school without exact information and every parent also didn't want their boys and girls to live separately. However, I made up my own decision for my future in spite of their anxieties. In fact, it was my first own decision against my parents. After I enrolled in the high school and studied well there, from one year to another, the number of students who came from my middle school increased steadily. It showed obviously that my challenge and outcome made the junior students and the teachers in my middle school change greatly.
In addition, I was the first person among my high school alumni to be qualified with Certified Public Accountant(CPA) before my college graduation. Although most people agreed that the role of CPA, which conduct an audit the financial statement of listed companies, will be much more crucial than that of today in accordance with the growing capital market in Korea, nobody around me engaged in the CPA exam because it was not easy to study for, at least, two years for the exam. To tell the truth, I also was worried about same things but I was sure that it was worth enough investing my time and efforts. Thus, I demonstrated to overcome a challenge with our own best by making my successful results. I shared my experience with my friends and junior students who consider of CPA. Whenever I met my friends or junior colleagues, I told them that working as a CPA is beneficial for us not only to find job opportunity but also to make our own professionalism. Thus, some of them work as CPA in accounting firms and appreciated my helps to relive the uncertainty.
In conclusion, I have shown the strong decision for my future such as the experiences above. At this moment, I hope to find a new challenge which can make me a real leader in the future. I don't want to stay with my stable position to lose a great opportunity. I continue to challenge for what I've never experienced before.