Essays i wrote for school application #2

Essay 2 Describe what you believe to be your two most substantial accomplishments to date, explaining why you view them as such

My First sales efforts: As a child, I was considerably introverted. I shunned any chance of talking to stranger, let alone trying to sell anything to anyone. Despite the fact that I grew up seeing my parents run a business in rice trading and I eventually chose marketing as my major in university, selling had never been in the list of my favorite things.

The experience that helped me overcome this phobia happened in my junior year when I attended the marketing club, which in order to let the members have a glimpse of business world would select a fresh administration team to set and run the dummy company each summer. I initially joined in planning and administrative mundane. However, amateurish we were, most of us ended up doing any task we came across. It was not too long before I had a sales team to drive. By working with the team, spending a great amount of time studying our products (which ranged from household products to satellite television) I learned to customize the approach to meet each customer's expectation and made my first series of sales records here. Even though the dollar value was nothing significant, I developed the confidence in dealing with new people in different environment. And by experiencing the pleasure of delivering satisfaction to the customers, my perspective of selling shifted positively. Now I think there will always be a worthy experience waiting each time I grow beyond my limit.

HP & Singapore: Taking the job with Hewlett-Packard Far East and moving to stay all alone in Singapore was already a revolution for me. Successfully carrying out a scrutinized task endorsed this achievement.

During the integration of post-HP-Compaq-merger, I was assigned to lead the transition to move the pre-merger Compaq operation in Thailand to join HP’s operation hub in Singapore. I had to obtain all process and procedures from the previous team with in 4 weeks. This proved to be a difficult task because the people from the previous team were fully aware that they would be laid off once the knowledge transfer complete. Naturally, they tried to hide critical information from me any time possible. This hostility caused me a long detour before finding out each process.

My accomplishment was not solely in completing this task by long devoted hours, because I think a lot of people can do the same. Therefore, the more meaningful success of this project was overcoming the sentimental barrier and deriving a win-win solution with members of the previous team. In the early years of my career, I found it difficult to tell when the professional life ends and personal life begins each day. Therefore, I always hoped that my growth in both lives would complement each other.