Creativity and resourcefulness are often viewed as the hallmark of successful financial practitioners. Please describe how you have demonstrated these characteristics in your personal or professional life. (maximum: 350 words) Post Response
As a senior high school project, I created a prototype of Theodolite, an instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical angles between two points, using only protractor, piece of wood, strings, nails, hammer and basics concepts of trigonometry. The project was also adjudged as the "most promising project" in the mathematics category due to its ingenuity and originality.
During engineering, nearly every lab assignment and courses required creative and logical thinking on my part. While designing digital and analog circuits in labs, I used my creative skills to come up with design adhering to the required performance parameters. FPGA based VGA controller, my final project, also required a lot of creativity at various stages of research, design and implementation. Apart from this, as a coordinator in Literary and Debating club, Centre of Value Education and NIT Warangal's technical festival, I used my innovative ideas to promote various events across colleges in India. In particular, as an additional joint secretary of Center of Value Education club, I incorporated innovative techniques in event and fund management, organizing and publicizing events and ensuring efficient utilization of resources.
In professional life, my creativity and resourcefulness is evident from my work on resetting repos. I came up with a proposal for a new efficient modeling for handling resetting repos that ensured correct reporting of profit and loss figures (realized and unrealized) to the investors and also covered all potential use cases that can come up in the near future . It changed the way how repo was seen and handled by other teams in the firm and hence many teams in the firm were hesitant to incorporate the change in the modeling. Through series of presentations exhibiting the advantages that my modeling has over the existing one and a proof of concept demonstrating its significance, I was able to convince all the teams to adopt my proposal. Post its firm wide implementation, I received a lot acknowledgement from the senior management for my determination and effort.
I like your essay a lot. The only thing I would suggest is breaking your essay down into paragraphs. I feel like everything is mushed together. :)
...and basics basic concepts of trigonometry.
The project was also adjudged judged as the "most promising project" in ...
You have some great accomplishments...
After its firm-wide ...
implementation, I received a lot acknowledgment from the senior management for my determination and effort.
:-) Looking good! But I think you should use a special word or phrase both at the BEGINNING and END of the essay so that it will become a memorable theme. IT can be any word that captures the idea you are trying to express. With a great theme, this will be not only impressive but also memorable.
Thanks ericao.. I will try to break it down into paragraphs.
Thanks a lot for the review EF_Kevin. Those were some valuable suggestions. If you have time could you point out to the sentences that can be better rephrased. I personally feel that second paragraph below can be presented in a better format but I am running out of ideas. :(
"During engineering, nearly every lab assignment and courses required creative and logical thinking on my part. While designing digital and analog circuits in labs, I used my creative skills to come up with design adhering to the required performance parameters. FPGA based VGA controller, my final project, also required a lot of creativity at various stages of research, design and implementation. Apart from this, as a coordinator in Literary and Debating club, Centre of Value Education and NIT Warangal's technical festival, I used my innovative ideas to promote various events across colleges in India. In particular, as an additional joint secretary of Center of Value Education club, I incorporated innovative techniques in event and fund management, organizing and publicizing events and ensuring efficient utilization of resources."
