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let's talk about how to pass the shell
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video interview for
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2024 what's up guys it's Mike from job
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English if you don't already know me
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I've been helping professionals and
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graduates get jobs at some of the
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world's most difficult companies since
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2013 and today we're going to be
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breaking down the first round interview
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process for Shell the oil and gas giant
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we're going to talk through some fast
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facts about shell what you can expect
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from their video interview process and
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finally some of the most common
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questions that you can find on their
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video interview so let's get started in
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2023 shell generated $54 billion the
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second highest revenue in its history
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shell has a target for zero methane
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emissions by
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2030 according to the brand Finance
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Global 500 list shell is listed as the
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most valuable oil and gas brand in the
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world in 2023 shell invested over 5.2
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billion do in low carbon energy and in
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the same year sh spent over a billion
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dollars on Automation and AI research
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and development you may know that shell
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has a number of patents what you didn't
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know is that shell now has
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8,829 patents listed belonging to the
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company okay so there was some fast
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facts about shell that you can use in
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your answer to why do you want to work
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for Shell now I have to say Shell's
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video interview process is one of the
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easiest and friendliest going it is a
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high view video interview fre questions
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three minutes to answer unlimited time
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to prepare and unlimited rakes now
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correct me if I'm wrong in the comments
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but I don't think I've ever come across
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a friendlier and easier higher viiew
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interview process for unlimited retakes
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and unlimited preparation time so to be
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frankly honest there's really no reason
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why you would fail the shell video
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interview next up let's go through the
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most common questions that I came with
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across during our research from publicly
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available sources question number one
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tell us about a time when you use
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feedback from someone to your benefit
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okay so receiving feedback from somebody
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else is incredibly valuable and
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something you're going to have to learn
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to do when you transition from
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University to professional life and to
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be frankly honest with you I probably
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like you I'm not the greatest person at
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receiving criticism this is very
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different from feedack back feedback is
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basically a way of saying to somebody
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this is really good and here's how we
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can make it better ideally you want to
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frame this in terms of your professional
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life rather than your personal life
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though academics work as well for
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example where your professor has
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provided a mark for an essay or giv you
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feedback on a group project and
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importantly what did you do and how did
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you implement that feedback and how can
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you demonstrate that that feedback was
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useful generally it's because you got
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better at your job you got a higher
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grade in your next essay or you did
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better in your next group work or
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presentation and always remember when
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you're answering competency questions
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that you should use the Star based
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format which is situation task action
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result where were you what were you
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doing what did you do what happened and
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the majority of your answer should be
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emphasized in terms of the action part
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I.E what did you do and to make your
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story better more believable and
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ultimately more interesting don't forget
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to be specific about what you did and
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who you were with and what was
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interesting or funny about the task that
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you went through together question
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number two tell us about a time when you
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had a different opinion to somebody else
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so having a different opinion to
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somebody else is really about
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communication what we're aiming to do is
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trying to see if we can find some sort
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of common ground in order to move Mo
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towards our end result what this
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basically means is say for example in a
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very common place where people have a
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difference of opinion is at University
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when you're setting out to do a piece of
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group work together maybe you have to
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pick a particular topic or company that
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you're going to focus your group work on
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and you and your teammates have a
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difference of opinion the best thing to
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do is try to be as objective as possible
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to lay out the pros and cons and most
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importantly to speak towards people's
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benefit or their incentive so it could
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be that your company your topic is more
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interesting it could be more difficult
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to achieve a result it could be
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something that fewer people have done it
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could be easier it could be less work so
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really when you're trying to compromise
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in a sense you're also speaking towards
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what the person wants and what are their
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incentives question number three why do
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you want to work at Shell now 3 minutes
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is really quite a long time to answer
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this question at the start of this video
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I gave you six fast facts about shell
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and really this couldn't be easier I I
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just Googled Shell's annual report I
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downloaded it and looked at all 246
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pages I realized I was never going to
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read that and then I simply just put it
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into chat GPT and asked it to summarize
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some facts which came not just from
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Finance but also from environmental
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social governance charitable and awards
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and then I picked out the facts that I
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believe were most relevant I think with
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3 minutes to answer this question as
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well this is also your opportunity to
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speak about a fact which is Meaningful
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to you maybe you're talking about
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Shell's interest and impact in terms of
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moving away from fossil fuels and how
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global warming has affected yourself
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your family or people that you know and
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love around the world this is a really
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great opportunity to put your
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personality your spin on an answer which
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sometimes can really just feel like
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you're really off a list of facts
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question number four why do you want to
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do this role now when you're answering
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this question please make sure that you
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do not make the most common mistake
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which is spending three minutes talking
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about yourself and why you are amazing
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and you are the perfect person to do
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this job if only somebody would give you
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a chance now importantly doing a higher
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view interview what you need to
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understand about the process is that
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your words are going to be changed into
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text and then your text will be analyzed
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by an algorithm which is looking for
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particular words and phrases which
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relate to the key skills and experiences
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that are required to do the job so in
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order to kind of make sure that they're
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getting the right answers that they're
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looking for in terms of matching the job
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description you should start off your
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answer by explaining basically what you
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would do in this job and you can then go
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on to provide three or four key skills
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or strengths that you have alongside
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proof in order for you to really tick
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all of the boxes ultimately the decision
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ision to proceed you on to the next
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round within the application process is
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purely based around how closely they've
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believed that you match and could
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fulfill the job description and this is
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a great opportunity to tick a lot of
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those boxes question number five how do
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you implement empowering progress in
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your life now this seems like a little
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bit of a a woo woo question but
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ultimately it relates to Shell's core
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values which is respect honesty and
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integrity so empowering progress could
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simp Simply Be how are you making
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progress in terms of your professional
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life terms of your academic life one
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thing you want to think about when
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talking through the hierarchy of
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experiences is you really want to relate
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it to your professional or your academic
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I do on occasion like listening to
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stories and believe they're relevant
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when they're personal but only when the
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overcoming of a personal struggle then
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has an impact on your professional or
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your academic life an important way to
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think about this so that you don't miss
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out on the details instead of thinking
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on telling people think about teaching
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them so teaching them the steps that
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they would need to go through in order
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to get the same result as you question
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number six describe a time when you
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showcased your leadership in order to
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help a team to achieve their goal so
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talking about leadership is really just
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about having a focused goal in mind and
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being able to Marshall the resources at
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your disposal in order to meet that goal
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when you're driving a team towards
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reaching a goal in order for for each
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individual person within the team to not
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feel overwhelmed they will generally
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have a task a specific part that they
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have to achieve however as a leader it
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is your job to be able to see the sum of
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all parts and the direction through
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which everybody is moving a common
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misconception about leadership generally
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from an inexperienced point of view is
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that leadership or management is really
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just about barking orders at people or
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making people do stuff while you sit
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there and don't do anything when the
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truth is in my experience and also
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observing other people who I Define as
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being good leaders this is somebody who
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really goes above and beyond with their
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team or he going to stand alongside them
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as they're trying to complete difficult
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things will provide encouragement and
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also will provide support and assistance
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where needed there is no quicker way to
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lose respect for somebody than to not be
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there when things get really difficult
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and your supposed leader or manager is
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nowhere to be seen now again as you're
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going through this try to be really
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specific in terms of the other members
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of your team that you're helping how
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they are helping you and most
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importantly that it is always a team
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effort nobody like somebody who sits
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there and humble brags that if it wasn't
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for them then perhaps none of these
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things would have happen guys I hope
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that you enjoyed this video it's a
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little bit shorter than normal because I
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found that it was a fairly concent of
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similar questions that happened for
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Shell again probably one of the easiest
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processes I've come up against please
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make sure that you like and comment on
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this video this helps other people to
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see the video helps other people to pass
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their interview and it helps us to know
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that this is content that you love and
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enjoy let me know how you get on with
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your interview what brings you here or
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what other videos you'd like us to make
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bye
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