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Please outline your career objectives and how the MBA will

help you to achieve them.


I am a very ambitious person and always seek excellence. My career objective follows this
rule.

I am a very self motivated person with a great sense of initiative. The different types of
experiences I encountered in my life (school, university, work and voluntary/charity
endeavours) have broadened my vision of the world and those who are surrounding me. All
of these factors had a great impact on my work that I do now. It is not the case that the job
we do is totally relies on the knowledge related to it. This is a very narrow way of looking at
one’s job and limits the prospect of development or amelioration.

In the global village that we live in, I believe that we should be open to other people,
cultures, religions, ethnicities and mentalities if we want to survive. The fascinating
elements of the jobs I have done in the past include the ability for me to interact with
people from all sort of backgrounds and nationalities and to engage with them, to learn
from them and to understand our differences. My ability to speak English, Arabic and French
fluently served this purpose to a great extent.

As I stated at the beginning, I am very ambitious person, and now I am very determined to
climb the managerial hierarchy. I have many ideas I would like to implement in certain
parts of the globe, which necessitate that I hold a high decision-making position.

Generally, the MBA is a collaborative effort, teamwork is highly valued and pointless rivalry
frowned upon. There you can make friends and valuable lifelong contacts.

The Cranfield MBA is very well-known program, and has proven over time that it can
achieve what other MBAs could not. On the preview, I was attracted to the idea of group
and projects work, I found it fascinating and effective. First, the Cranfield MBA will enable
me to interact and work with a wide range of people, therefore experience diversity in a
different context. In addition, Cranfield MBA will equip me with an arsenal of skills and
experiences in a relatively short time that I have still to fully develop. Therefore, I will be
able to fast track my progress to very senior roles. Finally, Cranfield MBA will be a good
opportunity to scaffold my existing skills and knowledge as it is quasi-impossible to achieve
this goal whilst working.

What positions of responsibility have you held (not necessarily


business related)? What have you gained from this experience?
During my higher education at ENCG (Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion), I held
many positions of responsibility: the main one was the president of the Al-Anwar society.
The purpose of this society was to organise conferences, lectures, trips, and exhibitions both
in and out of the university. Our team was composed of 12 people. The society had a
president, vice president, treasurer, communication responsible and logistics coordinator.
The rest of the 12 were active members of the society and held different roles every project.
I was in charge of this 12-strong team, and my role was mainly managerial. I had to
coordinate between different members of the team, supervise the work and more
importantly create opportunities of development to the society by increasing the support it
received internally and externally. By being in this role, it was an opportunity to develop my
interpersonal skills, team work ability and negotiation skills, as well as making friends and
lifelong contacts.

In Edinburgh, I volunteered to run a youth club within King Fahd Islamic Centre. I
volunteered to do this job mainly because I strongly believe that investing in our youth is
the most profitable investment and that our youth is the hope of our future generations. I
organised sports activities, cultural sessions, educational sessions, trips and camping. Being
involved in these activities with young children, I was developing my managerial and
organisational skills as well as gaining self-satisfaction and the respect of the community.
More importantly I was insuring that these kids were far away from falling into the trap of
drugs, crimes and ASBOs. The responsibilities were greater than of those of university
society ones because children were involved (9-12 years old). For me, young children’s
safety was (and still is) paramount, thus I had to take extra responsibilities of assessing
risks of any activity we did, identifying any hazards that could lead to fatal accidents,
injuries or any sort of harm to the children. Another important part of my youth club
responsibilities involved the parents. I had to keep in touch with children’s parents
regularly, and inform the parents of what we were planning and gain their support for their
children’s participation. Finally, I had to make sure that other adults involved with young
children were mature enough, had sufficient knowledge of health and safety rules, were well
known to the community, and had no previous criminal records.

What single event or achievement has been most significant in


your life? What were the results of this event or achievement?
Obtaining my degree was a very significant event in my life. ENCG is a well known
business school and is the second best business school in Morocco. It is a public
organisation, and the access to this school is purely on the basis of academic and
personal performance. At the time of starting my degree, I was one of the 150
students that were selected from 5000 applicants, and the youngest of my fellows. I
went through three stages of selection. The first one was the short listing. This was
based on the baccalaureate results. Then came the written test. This involved
maths, general culture, business knowledge and IQ. And finally, there was an
individual interview with a jury of three people: two academic staff from the school
and one professional person from a partner company.

Being selected in the ENCG was a very good achievement in a country like Morocco
where competition for business and engineering schools is quite strong, and people
view public business schools students highly. In addition, 95% of graduates from
this school went on to further study or employment. Most of my colleagues were
offered jobs within 3 months of finishing their studies. I was offered a job too, but I
had plans to travel as I was only 20 years old when I graduated.
The degree itself was very demanding in terms of commitment, effort and time. A
typical day for me started at 8am till 5pm at the university, and finished at 11pm at
home after completing three hours of personal study.

The time spent at ENCG was tough but also enjoyable. I had to work very hard as
the level of work required for each subject taken was high and 110% effort was
always required. Case studies, projects and work placements opened doors for my
mind to be more creative and innovative. Another important thing I learnt from my
degree is multiculturalism. I had colleagues from Tunisia, Cote D’Ivoire, Mali, Syria,
Senegal, and Ghana. This was an opportunity to learn from/about other nationalities,
groups and ethnicities. I became aware of people of different cultures, how to interact with
them without offending anybody, and primordially how to respect them. And finally I made
friends and valuable lifelong contacts that still constitute an important part of my
life.

Describe an ethical dilemma you have experienced firsthand.


Discuss how you thought about and managed the situation.
The biggest ethical dilemma I experienced was during work within my youth club.
There was a boy who often misbehaved and caused problems. These varied from
bad language to bullying, violence and drugs.

Several parents were lobbying to get this child kicked out of the youth club, and I
could understand why they wanted this to happen. The problem is that the youth
club was intended to be inclusive and excluding him would not have served this
purpose.

My decision was not to kick him out. By doing so I was keeping some hope that this
child was going to change, but also I was reiterating to the parents the principles
behind the establishment of the youth club. We were there for the children,
especially those who were vulnerable and potentially susceptible to take drugs or
commit violence. Therefore, I had to stand for this child because he was not given
any chance yet to demonstrate whether he could change or not.

It was challenging to communicate this to the parents and the child himself. To
juggle these two sides was the most difficult part of the problem. It required
perseverance, consistency, confidence, and strong negotiation skills. On one hand I
had to reassure parents that their children were safe. I also had to make it clear
that a child who is trapped in a vicious circle of drugs and violence, would be let
down if not supported at this very crucial moment. In order for me to talk to the
parents, I had to be very confident, believing in my case at the same time as
keeping the parents’ worries in mind. On the other hand, I had to talk to this child
and find out more about his background, his friends and his schooling. I made it
very clear that his behaviour and actions are not helping him, and they could
eventually prevent him from accessing all the fun other kids had access to in the
youth club. In this matter, listening skills were indispensable.

The youth club team, with the advice and support of the parents, drew up some
discipline ground rules and took these to the children themselves. The children
discussed them and, with some minor changes, agreed to them. In addition it was
felt that the children should have more say in the activities we did. In time, the
behaviour of the whole group improved.

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