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'Why are you applying for the alumna Trainee Program in the De bankruptment of Foreign affairs and Trade? What skills and attri alonees would you be able to contri stille to DFATs goals and persist? You should give examples based on your academic achievements, do experience and/or extra-curricular activities.\r\nI deem the polish Trainee Program as one of the epitomes of DFATs thrust in showcasing the best and brightest Australia has to offer the international community. beingness part of a vibrant, dedicated and diverse group of individuals entrusted to nurture understanding and promote the countrys foreign and trade traffic is a challenge anyone who believes in Australia should be noble-minded to be a part of.\r\nHaving evince politics and Government in university and presently doing my post-graduate studies in international Relations give me the fundamental, if not advanced, skills as wholesome as awareness of local and international socio-political and economical r ealities of today. Complementary to my academic skills are the incline lyric educational activity experiences I hold up locally and abroad, which contributed immensely to my understanding of several(predicate) cultures and mickles of varying age group.\r\nBeing trilingual ( face, Korean and street Japanese) gives me the edge to instruct not only the language of separate people but the nuances of what a language conveys, this is a predominate trait in comprehending the distinct language of diplomacy. It has helped me smoke with clients in an interpretation cable organisation, students in a teaching assignment or local tribes people in medical exam or mercy missions.\r\n1.Written and Oral conversation Skills\r\nProvide examples of where your written and ad-lib communication and talks skills construct been most effective in the employment or elsewhere. What endings were achieved?\r\nOne of the jobs I do on the side is translation and interpretation work from Korean t o English and vice versa. This type of work deals with Korean trade delegations coming to Australia to deal with Australian business sufferers. Both Korean and Australian clients require entryway of a written project proposal antecedent to acquiring the tasking. The proposal calls for demonstrating my competence and advanced take of understanding not only of the Korean and English languages but the cultures as well.\r\nIn writing the proposal, I set my plan of action and the methodology to be used for the translation and interpretation processes. After the clients read through my proposal, I present it to both parties and coax them of my being the right person to get the job do. During the actual translation/interpretation work, I sometimes observe that the principals understanding of what each said to the other may get â€Å"lost in translation.” The outcome of which is that on several occasions, I had to mediate and talk toll so that the two factions agree on trai n interpretations. It is noteworthy seeing conflicting parties come to terms because of my diplomatic approach and diligence in getting the job done properly.\r\nDescribe a particular in which you had to identify and analyze a hassle and then recommend a solution. What was the outcome? What constraints did you impertinence in developing the solution? Would you have done anything otherwise?\r\nIn 2001, while doing community re-building unbidden work with the Youth with a Mission (YMAN), a non-government organization assisting marginalized communities worldwide, I was a â€Å"trainee squad loss leader” charged with a group of young volunteers from the unify States, Canada, Australia, Fiji and even Australian aborigines. We were in northern Thailand amongst the Karen and Hmong tribes and I found out that due to their patriarchal society, the antherals in the tribes refused to work with our female volunteers. This caused some setbacks since individual assignments were al ready given prior to arriving on site.\r\nAs the police squad leader of the group, I discussed this problem with the senior squad leader and recommended that we should respect their culture in pasture to bring to pass the mission. I talked with the group and organised the male volunteers to work in building houses and improving the local site. The female volunteers took on the English teaching assignments and medical assistance. This went well with the local populace and we gained their respect because we show our reverence for their beliefs. I would have done things differently by studying the culture, beliefs and peculiarities of the tribes first prior to embarking on another volunteer mission.\r\nWhat makes a successful group, in the workplace or elsewhere? Why are you an effective team member? How have you integrate people from different backgrounds in a team in which you have participated? Give an example of how you have contributed to a teams achievements.\r\nTeam succe ss rests with good lead and management. I related the leader and manager fibre since despite being distinct characteristics, they are internal traits of someone charged with such daunting assignment. A leader/manager must have the passel to effectively implement tasks and the steadfastness to successfully complete mission objectives. My evaluate as a team member is the ability to work cohesively with each team member and agree to set aside idiosyncrasies in order to fulfill collective goals. People with different backgrounds can be incorporated in a team by appealing to their individual aims and get hitched with them with the strategic objectives.\r\nDuring one of my courses in post-graduate studies, our trend phoney a United Nations Security Council meeting and I played the part of the Secretary General. We were doing conglutination Korean thermonuclear proliferation conflict resolution and individuals have their own opinions on how best to mitigate the problem. Playing t he grace of God role, I contributed to the team output by consolidating validated points from individuals and getting a group consensus that the solution to North Koreas nuclear arms program is by supply to the North Koreans need for aid in supercede for reduction or total demobilization of the nuclear arms .\r\n4.Flexibility, Adaptability and Initiative\r\nGive an example of a challenge you have recently go about in the workplace, your studies or extra-curricular activities. Describe how you addressed and overcame that challenge. What were some of the difficulties you faced?\r\nWhile working as a contractual English instructor in Korea, I sight that the students learning English, though very diligent and hardworking, English have a hard time with conversational, street-speak and business English. This is due to the formation of the program wherein they learn schoolroom and â€Å"theoretical” English but lacking the savourless and practical application. Korea is a ver y rigid and unified society and change usually comes at a difficult phase. I adapted and conformed to the norms of the school but took the initiative by instructing my students to prepare a five-minute oral presentation of a country of their choice.\r\nThe presentations have to be made with individually hand-made posters to have more jolt in terms of graphics. After each students presentation, critiques from the class †in English, were done and this further confirmed the value of the pioneering teaching methodology. Needless to say, my technique was adapted by other teachers, who found it more efficient than the processes they have been using for years. Even the school director was smiling with my achievement that when my contract ended, he offered to renew it but I declined since I had to go back to Australia to quest after my studies.\r\n'