Managing People and Careers Sample Assignment

Managing People and
Careers

Contents
COVER LETTER............................................................................................................................1
CURICULUM VITAE (CV)...........................................................................................................3
APPLICATION FORM...................................................................................................................5
INTERVIEW PRACTICE...............................................................................................................7
ASSESSMENT CENTRE PRACTICE...........................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

COVER LETTER
Robert Dsouza
ACD street, Thames,
England, UK– WQR 2XT
(003)-23-222
[e-mail]
May 20, 2019
Priyanka Chopra
Director, Sales department
THG sports
The NBC tower
455 North City front Plaza Drive
9th floor, Chicago, IL 60611
[e-mail]
Dear sir,
I am writing
I'm writing to apply for the vacant position available in THG sports for the post of sales
executive. It is a company which is a subsidiary of renowned Marcus Evans Group. I am able to
get information regarding this vacancy through an advertisement posted on their official website
on the date of 15th April, 2019. For this job, I am having an appropriate skills and knowledge
which brings confidence among me to deal with the challenges arises at workplace. It is
necessary to have good negotiation skills to make successful career in sales. Due to my
specialisation in sales and marketing, I am able to develop an organic growth structure which
facilitate company in achieving their desired aims and objectives. Due to having necessary
skills, I feel confident which brings me ahead in my career of sales executive. I always believes
in bringing something innovative which can easily attract maximum number of customers
towards an organisation. Through this, I can help company in dealing with the challenges and
issues faced by them due to high competition. Apart from this, I can easily interact with others
due to having politeness and cooperative behaviour by which I am able to maintain healthy
relations with my teammates and clients. Because all of these, I will be perfect for the vacant
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job position of sales executive in THG Sports.
I took more interest in carrying out research which enable me to evaluate the needs and
preferences of targeted customers and changing trends of market. This will make easy for me to
provide training to the ambitious candidates so that the chances of increasing sales of company.
Thus, it will be profitable for company to recruit me as sales executive. In addition with this, I
have an adequate knowledge regarding adoption of various marketing techniques and tools
which makes direct positive impact on the sales and revenue of company. During my post
graduation, I have completed 5-6 months internship as a sales personnel for a XYZ company.
Due to this, I have gained lots of knowledge in lead and strategy development, which brings
confidence in me to motivate others to become a next sales star. The vacated job position
available in company requires persistent, goal driven and dedicated candidate which perfectly
suits my working profile. During my previous job, I have established myself as sales officer due
to gaining sufficient skills and knowledge about market. I performed different undertakings
amid that time. The real undertaking that I did amid my temporary job was to make eye-getting
and imaginative website pages and completing an exploration alongside making introduction on
accomplishment picked up by craftsmans of United Kingdom.
In past, I always performs better in any complex situations with the help of taking support from
my co-workers, seniors and teaching staff. Thus, when i heard news about the vacancy in THG
Sports, I found that I am eligible to apply due to having required skills and knowledge briefly
mentioned under the advertisement given by company. It finds more helpful to increase my
further knowledge and skills by engaging in different field work. Therefore, I hereby attached
my Curriculum Vitae so as to provide my overall qualifications and experience gained by me in
past.
I am so thankful to you if you take my CV in consideration and can call me as well at my
number 222-222-222 or can mail me as well on XYZ.
Thanks and Regards
Robert Dsouza
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CURICULUM VITAE (CV)
General Information
Name Robert Dsouza
Address- PQR Road, London,
United Kingdom – HA1 1PT
Contact no.- (222)-22-222
Email id- [e-mail]
Career objective- My main career goal is to attain reputed good position in the area of
work allotted to me with the help of utilising my skills and knowledge.
Educational Background
Educational
Qualification
School / College University Grades
BBA Wembley High
Technology College
London University 2.4
Secondary Education EFG School of
London
Recognized Board 3.8
High School
Education
EFG School of
London
Recognized Board 3.6
Work Experience: 2 Year experience in Sales field
Roles and Responsibilities (College)-
 Lead a unit of 20 individuals
 Member of sales team
 Given education to the needy and poor people who are based on NGO services.
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 Selection of skilled candidates who can easily influence others in favourable way.
 Analysing of sales report by comparing it with the past sales report of company.
 Working on maintaining performance level of each and every employees working
under a team.
 Guiding and motivating team members to achieve sales target by educating them
about the changing needs and preferences of customers.
Roles and Responsibilities (Internship)
 Focusing on changing needs of customers by conducting research.
 Preparing statistical analysis of data to understand better.
 Manifestation of details by preparing presentation.
Computer proficiency
 MS Office
 Management information system (MIS)
 HTML
Skills and abilities
 Self motivated and quick learner
 Interpersonal skills
 Strong rational abilities and pioneering approach
 Good observation skill and analytical abilities
 Better negotiation skills
 Flexible to adapt changes arises due to fluctuations of market environment.
 Issues resolving abilities to maintain healthy working atmosphere.
 Good problem solving skills in complex situation.
Technical Knowledge:
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 Tax related laws and legislations.
 In-depth knowledge of Company Law, Securities Law and Labour Law
Personal information
Father's name: Daniel Obrien
Mother's name: Lazy Obrien
Nationality: Christian, British
Date of birth- 10 May, 1994
Interests: cricket, travelling, Reading books, Listening music
Natural Abilities
 Driven and energetic
 Competitive nature
DECLARATION:
Hereby I confirmed that the ail details mentioned above are truly correct and certified by
renowned board or university.
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APPLICATION FORM
1: Why do you want to join our company?
THG sports is well known and established organisation with having good reputation and
financial position at global market. It mainly focuses on the fulfilling the needs and requirements
of Human resource due to which the retention rate of employees in an organisation are very high.
The company retains its market position by developing strategies and policies for their
employees on regular basis. Along with this, the company always tried to resolve conflicts in
order to create a healthy working environment so that the productivity and performance level of
staff members are increased. This will enable an organisation to achieve growth and success in
the competitive market. Due to all these, I decide to apply for the job offered by company as i
feel assured that i get an opportunity to explore my skills and knowledge and contribute
maximum efforts in the achievement of desired goals and objectives. I am having strong
analytical and convincing skills through which i can sell company’s products to anyone. The
company encourages the healthy working atmosphere where the employees feel free to express
their new and innovative ideas towards the managers. It increases the competition at workplace
which indirectly brings profitable result to company. Thus,, I feel that this company is much
suitable for me and should play a major role in growth of my career.
2: Tell us about your previous target and your performance?
At the time when I was in college, the function named as World Youth Skills Day has
been organised in an Auditorium. Under this, competition programs were also arranged by
college faculties. Herein, students decide to prepare a PPT where they can clearly describes each
and every activity that to be performed under such function. The team of 10 members including
me discussing about the division of task so that the guests can be informed about the activities
happened under such programs. For this, I and my team mates divided the task so as to
understand roles we need to perform individually. I have assigned a role of preparing PPT where
my team members has get responsibility to execute task that will be mentioned under the PPT.
During preparation of PPT, I uses various techniques along with activities pictures so as to make
easy for our management to clearly understand about the future activities. After presenting my
PPT, all teachers and senior member of college gets impressed about my future planning for
World Youth Skills Day and ensure us to execute accordingly with the help of taking their
financial support.
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3) Tell us about a time when you identified a new approach to solve a problem. (what did
you do and what was the outcome?)
When I was doing an internships at National skills society for 6 month of time period I
had been given a task to conduct a research where I should ask from 250 people to give their
views and opinions about the sales technique and tools used by an organisation. For this, I uses
both primary and secondary method. To collect primary data, I prepare a questionnaire form
which contains the lists of questions related my topic of research whereas to collect secondary
data I uses various online websites where I found the articles written by different authors on the
same topic. This helps me in gaining proper knowledge about the customers perceptions and
suggestions on my research topic which facilitates me to identify which sales technique will be
more profitable for company. After conducting research, I decided to present collected data
through preparing an effective presentation so that the results will be easily communicated and
understood by individuals or group of individuals. To help them in understanding more, I used
various presentable techniques such as pie-charts, Bar graphs and histograms so that the
individuals who have lack of knowledge about the subject matter can also understand the
perception and attitude of customers. At last day, teachers of sales and marking subject was
more impressed by me and congratulate me to conduct an effective research. They wished me
muck for my better career in future period of time.
4. Tell us about a time when you had to manage a number of different priorities and
complete a number of tasks in a short amount of time. (what did you do and what was the
outcome?)
During my college period of time, i had been allotted a work on the topic of working
structure of global organisation. In addition with this, I had been also allotted to make some
improvements in my project which are earlier given in last semester. It makes difficult for me to
make priority to specific task as I had exams of last semester in next week due to which I
requires to do study for that as well. These all tasks must be completed on urgent basis.
Therefore, I decided to allot time period for all these task according to their importance. I feel
completing my old project will be given as more priority as it needs only a modifications which
consumes less time and energy. The second priority decided by me is the completion of new
project assignment to me recently and study for exams are my last priority. Prioritizing all these
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tasks help me to execute in better and effective way which educates me that considering all tasks
along with their importance will always brings positive result in future period of time.
5. Tell us about a project you worked on that required you to persuade others to your point
of view. (what did you do and what was the outcome?)
During course at QQ college, I had been given an assignment which I should be completed
by performing in a team of 4 members. The assignment is based on the topic of “The effective of
non-governmental organisations on welfare of society”. Before thinking of starting this
assignment, I and my team members makes decisions to present a written report on the given
topic as we mutually feels that it makes positive impact on others. This same approach were also
followed by other team members working in a past thus observing their success and experience, I
decide to present a 1 minute demo of presenting that how the allotted task should be executed so
that profitable outcome can be gained at the time of end of the project. When I present my views
and opinions in front of my committee through a presentation, they gets much influenced with
my approach and appreciates us more by almost every member of committee. Using PPT makes
easy for me to display the actual results which I and my other 4 team mates gets on the topic
assigned to us.
INTERVIEW PRACTICE
While I was in school, my batch was approached to go to a workshop where countless and
experts were assembled from individual foundations. They were there to share their encounters
of meetings to help us in that time. The focuses they clarified are as per the following:
• It is required to guarantee that you convey all basic documentation identified with the
instructive foundation and work understanding.
• Gestures and body developments ought to be proper as it helps in leaving a decent impact
on the questioner.
• There ought to be no indication of anxiety while conveying or in conduct at the season of
meeting.
• Important to achieve talk with area thirty minutes preceding the meeting area to indicate
dependability, genuineness for the activity position and to keep away from different issues too.
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ASSESSMENT CENTRE PRACTICE
Amid my school days, I went to the course on meeting and conduct important to be kept up
at the procedure, the following day another class was sorted out which examined about the
assessment centres. The real focuses reflected in the seminar were as per the following:
• When I experience the test at the assessment centre, it is mandatory by me to be certain
and propelled to show the given undertaking in successful way.
• It is additionally critical that I get a versatile and imprudent methodology towards the
task so I can initiate with the undertaking when it is doled out to me.
• Furthermore, I should utilize legitimate language for doing discourse and ought to have
the capacity to express my perspectives in a successful way and leave a decent impression.
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