Essay 2
Define Your Difference
Help us learn more about the multifaceted and talented person you are by picking 3 of the 6 questions below and responding to each one in 150 words or less. If you prefer, you may answer any of these questions in a more creative format such as video, info graphic or presentation. (Please clearly identify which question(s) you are answering. If using a video format, the response to each question can be up to 1 minute in length.)
1. What is an innovative/creative idea or change that you are most proud of implementing personally or professionally?
2. Tell us about a time when something in your life felt particularly challenging and how you were able to respond to that challenge.
3. Tell us three random things about you beyond what is already apparent from your application.
4. Describe the most constructive feedback that you have received and how you implemented this into your personal and/or professional life.
5. Describe a past experience when you were trying to learn or master something new.
6. Which one of the Babson Learning Goals do you find most appealing and why?
1. What is an innovative/creative idea or change that you are most proud of implementing personally or professionally?
The company I work for had a set of Maintenance Procedures which were in printed format. For one particular maintenance operation, changing of valves, seats, etc of a mud pump, I personally volunteered to make a video and illustration and conducted video training classes for the crew of one rig initially which had helped the crew to understand the procedure without any doubts. This training yielded positive results. It was then noted and recorded that post the training classes, the crew used to consume comparatively lesser time for the above said maintenance time and hence improved operational efficiency. This was taken as a pilot project which was considered successful and this training was provided to the crew of other rigs of the company too. Considerable improvement was seen in all the projects and this project had improved the collective operational efficiency of rigs.
4. Describe the most constructive feedback that you have received and how you implemented this into your personal and/or professional life.
There was a time when I did not realize the importance and advantages of prioritizing jobs as per the importance. I used to prioritize as per the order of receiving the jobs. My senior at that time, advised me to change the priorities of the jobs I had. This strategy aided me to sort out the work in a much organized way without any havoc. This strategy helped me in a multiple crisis situation later on in my job when two operational issues popped up in two different locations where the company I work for was operating. I had prioritized the attention and focus on the issues considering the importance and lead time on delivery of spares and this helped in the rectification of both the issues on time. This has always been my strategy since then and has helped me multiple times later.
5.Describe a past experience when you were trying to learn or master something new.
There was once an electrical issue in one of our rig in a remote location. It took us 3 days to get equipment’s service engineer to the location. After the service engineer reached the location it was found that the problem was minor with one of the embedded systems of the Top Drive unit. This one issue gave me a personal craving to learn about the embedded systems so that I could know about the electrical side of the unit and assist in troubleshooting of any similar issues. It was not difficult as I could learn it online and from various other sources. Though it was not related to what I had learned back for my graduation nor was it demanded for my job, the interest to learn something new helped me to know more about equipment. This has helped me to train a few electrical supervisors so that we could reduce downtime due to similar issues.
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