Employability Application Form

Employability & Enterprise Application Form

Competency based questions

For each of the following questions, please give a specific example that relates to how you have developed your skill in this area. The word limit is a maximum of 200 words per question.

Question 1: Describe a time when you have worked as part of a team. What role did you play and what challenges did you overcome?

When there is a team situation, I would like to step back and try to listen to everyone's ideas first. I usually do not take a direct leadership role, but instead I observe first, and listen carefully to everyone's ideas and when I have an idea I bring it up in an organized way. I don't just shout out a random idea.

However, I usually try to take other people's ideas along with my own and offer suggestions to them. I like to be organized in a manner. Usually I am the one who refines to other people's ideas, and go deeper into the organization, to make things as efficient and effective as possible. I find it easier to really reflect on everyone's input when I am not the center of attention, like the leader of the group would be.

In the future I think I should take more of a leadership role because I am a very good listener and I like things to be planned as well as possible. But at the same time, if I were to take a leadership role, I would need to be careful not to forget to listen to everyone's input as that is the main point of concern.

In my early childhood days, I was a team leader for several years, bringing my team together to reach our goals. Showing and teaching each person on the team how they helped to make it work. If I was doing this today, I would learn not to try to talk so fast, jumping to get my say in. I would...

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