My personal essay for a potential job : When I was 10, my best friend and I started a little business in the hallways of our school in a small seaside town in South Africa. She collected bookmarks and other tokens of inspiration missionaries handed out in her church and I marketed them to my fellow Grade 5s for a few Rands. Our business thrived, ensuring an afternoon feast of sweets and chips after a hectic day of long division and learning to conjugate verbs. I believe that it is this go-getter attitude that pushes me to try my best and think outside the box. For instance, when everyone said journalism was a dying industry, what did I do? I decided to spend even more money on it by doing honours. I spent long hours chasing down Greens politicians for interviews and became personally acquainted with Fiona Patten. All for the sake of proving to myself and to my journalism lecturers that I had what it took to become one of the first ethnic news reporters on Channel 7,9 or 10. Alas, life is sometimes a gamble and instead of sipping champagne with Eddie McGuire, you end up in graduate studies only to realise that youve yet again chosen degrees with the least amount of employability. I would like to give you a list of inspirational reasons to employ me but, despite being born in the land of Nelson Mandela, I am not very inspirational. Instead, I would like to point out that my unique set of skills acquired through an over priced education would fit quite well with what youre looking for. I am creative. I am willing to try my hand at anything. I love to write. I can proudly say that last year, two friends and I sat at table in the basement of Monash University and talked about starting a club centred around entrepreneurship, for which I would do the PR and Marketing, without any club sponsors or real idea of what it would take to get the club going to now having had names like Karen Lawson (CEO of CareerOne) as one of the headliners for our club events. I can also say that the last few years have been a time of real learning for me when it comes to people. Besides having the opportunity to travel and learn about different cultures, Ive worked at a NGO (Oxfam) and for a joint government-university initiative (Australia India Institute) which in itself was a big lesson on being a team player as well as learning to step up to the plate alone. So, why should you employ me? I believe that I would thrive as a digital copywriter and marketing assistant. I have the creativity for it. I have the desire for it. Its an opportunity I believe that I would grow with both personally and professionally and I believe that my ideas and skills would be of use to your company. After all, you have to have some flair when youve spent the first 13 years of your life in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the rest of it in Frankston, Metros last stop south on the train-line.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:33:57 +0000