I can use my previous multinational/cultural networking experience to merge with Chevening community

Chevening is looking for individuals with good networking skills...:

Networking is a fundamental building block in society development: through sharing, suggesting, and exchanging different ideas and opinions that can help development and improvement of one self and the society as a whole.

My first networking skills arose when I was chosen by my university to join the organizing committee of a Medical conference named the Pan Arab Society of Pediatric, Gastroenterology, Hematology and Nutrition conference held in Sudan during 2012

The conference was initiated, hosted and attended by a large group Of Doctors from different nationalities and different backgrounds. Being assigned as a coordinator of the registration team registering the Doctors coming from abroad for speaking and/ or attending the conference besides arranging their accommodation and transport; gave me the confidence to deal with the different nationalities more freely having no doubts about my good communication skills and also gave me the chance to develop and improve these skills.

My second experience that served best enhancing and reinforcing my networking skills was when I started working at Abu Dhabi National Bank - Sudan Branch as a one month intern. Two weeks into the job, I was offered under-job training in the Customer Services Department. I started out with simple responsibilities, i.e. handling the Electronic Cheques Clearing (ECC), handling the day-to-day customers' operations, requests & complaints, the process of issuing & renewing ATM cards & cheque books. After finishing my first month, the department manager called me into a meeting with a big client and told me that the client asked for me to handle his account. After the meeting was over, my manager told me that he was going to test me and assigned me with two other big accounts. After another month, I was handling some of the biggest accounts we had in the branch. When I asked my manager of the reason, why he decided to handle me this responsibility he said because I was the most social employee working in that branch. His answer motivated me to focus more, build more relationships and learn how to put these relationships into good use.

During my time at the bank I met a lot of people also coming from different nationalities and societies, communicating with them was a great challenge and that was when I believed in my good networking skills as I was able to deal with them perfectly & efficiently and they reported satisfaction of my services. And I wish to use my skills to help me precede my future career goal.

I used my networking skills and good relationships with clients as a search engine for accounting jobs and started interviewing immediately, that's how I got my current job...!

Chevening community integrates people from different countries and cultures, these people are chosen with specific chevening standards to fit perfectly into its community and to be the future leaders, engaging with this community will help me expand my perceptions and I can use my previous multinational / cultural networking experience to merge with these people perfectly.

Reem, your first paragraph, the introduction is a throw away. Why are you defining what networking means to the reviewer? That is totally unnecessary and only takes attention away from your actual response that starts in the next paragraph. Don't waste space and word count. Always respond immediately to the prompt. That response should be interesting enough to serve as the hook that will reel in the reviewer. Right now, you don't really have an effective hook with that opening statement.

With regards to the paragraph about the conference, I feel that the kind of work that you did there would be better placed in the leadership and influence Chevening prompt rather than the networking skills prompt. The work that you did during the conference did not really require much networking as all of the contacts already existed since the conference is a yearly thing. You were only using already existing contacts at that point and did not really have to set up a network from scratch. If you can adjust the essay to show an incident during that time when you had to create your own business contact and create an original network for yourself, then we can use that paragraph. Otherwise, I think you can skip that also and just concentrate on paragraph 3.

In paragraph 3, you should expose the reviewer to the methods that you used to create the social contacts for the bank and their clients. How did you create these contacts? Did you attend conferences? Join parties? Engage in company sponsored networking activities? Can you better illustrate the way this job required you to develop your networking skills? I really believe that this paragraph in particular can contain the relevant networking information that the prompt requires. You just have to recall how you did it. Don't forget to explain how you were able to eventually use these contacts on behalf of the bank or your clients on order to drive the point home.

The last line you wrote about how you got your current job, is that a part of the essay? If so, it needs to be better developed and please, never use an exclamation point when writing a formal essay. The reviewer will take that to mean that you are shouting at him or her. A simple pause in the form of a period will suffice.