Examples for Entry Level Applicants

• To gain employment with a company or institution that offers me a consistently positive

atmosphere to learn new technologies and implement them for the betterment of the business.
• Seeking an entry-level position in marketing utilizing my strong analytical and
communication skills combined with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing.
• Recent university graduate seeking an internship with an online media company which can
utilize my developed skills in communications and multimedia design.
• Recent political science honors graduate and former member of university student senate
seeking a position requiring intuitive research capabilities and constructive policy formulation.

Examples for Experienced Professionals

• Sales Manager offering 5 years of corporate experience in the utilities sector with a track
record of producing increased department profitability by an average of 11% annually.
• To secure a business development position leveraging strong customer service and
relationship building skills while utilizing over 11 years of business experience including 7 years
of overachieving sales quotas.
• Experienced machinist/shop assistant in the clothing and textile industry seeks a position
where six years skills and knowledge can be applied.
• To obtain a position as a software program designer in a challenging environment that
utilizes team-work effort for researching, learning and developing new high-tech products.

Career Aspiration Examples for Selected Positions

Teacher
Experienced, energetic educator seeking to secure a teaching position. Interested in teaching subjects
related to English or History at an elementary or secondary school level.

Cashier
Friendly, motivated, experienced cashier with three years in the industry. Customer service oriented
and takes pleasure in serving the public. Bilingual and can work well in a fast paced environment.

Retail Sales Manager

Highly motivated, enthusiastic retail sales manager with exceptional, proven performance will strive for
your sales goals. Experience with employee supervision and retail sales operations. Record-setting
sales leader, excellent coaching skills and has the ability to boost employee morale. Committed to
provide a pleasant, sales oriented environment.

Financial Analyst
To secure a position that enables me to use financial analyst and project management skills that I
have obtained through my education and work experience.

Personnel Assistant
A position as personnel assistant in human resources department of public service organization that
would permit me an opportunity to utilize my knowledge of wage administration, grievance procedures,
benefit programs publications, safety, labor relations, and employment.
Marketing Assistant
Motivated business school graduate seeking a marketing assistant position to help develop and
implement communications procedures and projects. Possess a Bachelor's degree in
business/marketing combined with international experience from a study abroad internship. Thrives in
high-pressure environments and is deadline driven. Honest, ethical and reliable.

Customer Service
To obtain a customer service position at a top-notch company and utilize the skills I have obtained
through previous work experience.

Remember to make a connection between your resume and the career aspirations paragraph. For, if it
is lost, you are creating a strange scenario for the employer and giving him another reason for
rejecting your application for the interview. Thus, incorporate a simple and crisp yet influential career
objective in your CV.

There are certain qualities that I will need for my future career aspiration. There are some
personal strengths that will help suit me for my chosen career. There are necessary skills that I
must possessto help me work well with others. Knowing what those skills are will help me
maximize my talents and my strengths. In addition, knowing what role effective intrapersonal
and interpersonal communication play will also help me in my future success.
My future career aspiration is to be a legal administrative assistant. I would like to work for a
lawyer with an option to do research, and type up legal documents for him/her. Another
option that I would like available to me is a chance to run their office for them. In other
words, I would like a job that will give me an opportunity to advance in my workplace.
A strength that I find to be my most important one

Career aspiration:

• To gain employment with a company or institution that offers me a consistently positive

atmosphere to learn new technologies and implement them for the betterment of the business.
• Seeking an entry-level position in marketing utilizing my strong analytical and
communication skills combined with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing.

1.
My career aspiration is to be in a challenging position which builds on my university
knowledge as well as personal experience in different sectors. I am an ambitious individual
who wants to learn and develop under the guidance of those who are at the top of their field
and then use those skills to become an expert myself. Using all my intellectual and oral skills
with great creativity to understand and fulfill the needs of customers in addition to analytical
and statistical skills to evaluate potantial strategies & campaigns of competitors will be crucial
in my career. Also, I should gain an employment within a company that offers me a
consistently positive atmosphere to learn something new and to research a lot of things.
2.
Please tell us about your awards, non-academic interests and activities. (Seminars, trainings, corporate strategy games
attended, sports achievements, clubs attended etc.)

During my university education, I’ve attended a lot of seminars, trainings, competitions and case studies. First of all, I
have an award in 7. National Logistics Competition which have included 2 parts, one of which required a lot of research
about the sector and the other was to solve a case study in a limited time. Also, my group was selected as the second
best team in Marketing Challenge 2011, in which we had composed marketing strategies for L’oreal, T.box and Coca-
Cola. As a strategy games attended, I can give an example about GMC. Our group is a good competitor in this global
competition but because of some faulty strategies, we are eliminated before national final. Furthermore, I am a
member of Akbank Düşünce Kulübü and Finans-Up, with these club I have learnt a lot of things about the banking and
finance sector and I had a chance to develop myself in different areas with different projects. As my non-academic
interest, I can say that music is important in my life since I have an ney-flute player for 4 years and I have attented a
lot of club to develop my abilities in music. Also, I’m a volunteer in Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey
(TEGV) whose objective is to create and implement educational programs and extracurricular activities for
children.

Please explain briefly what it means to work at Vodafone for you?

In my graduation project which is for Vodafone, I have understood that my workplace should
be as this place. Fistly, to work at Vodafone means a chance to use all of my abilities not only academical
knowledge but also social experience and creativity. Since I’m eager to lean new things and take new responsibilities
on my business, Vodafone will present me a challenging but very good career options with the help of its open minded
team members and satrategies that open to developments and changes. Therefore, I know that Vodafone offers me a
and experience. Secondly, during all
consistently positive atmosphere to practise all my teorical knowledge
my education, I have attented a lot of case studies, clubs and competitions, then in these
studies I have learnt that my success and creativity are very high in group works, strong team
spirit at Vodafone is the another reason of the applicaton to the position. Thirdly, my tasks in
my workplace should not monoton tasks and Vodafone’s “can-do attidude” toward their team
members is another attractive reason for me. To sum up, Vodafone meets all my expectations
from a company which I can work for.
Please give us an example of a time when you had to motivate and energise others in order to achieve a shared goal.
What was the situation? What was the shared goal? How did you feel about the goal? What did you do to motivate
others to achieve the goal? What was the outcome? In hindsight, what else could you have done to motivate or
energise the other people?

Last year, we attended a national competition named 7. National Logistics Case Study Competition. This competition
included 2 stages. In the first stage, a case study with some data were given and solutions and suggestions to this
case were expected. However, this case requreires a lot of research about the sector, since we have little knowledge
about the sector. Also, the time to submit solutions of first round was the beginning of the semester. My group
members are very reluctant to complete the study since it was requred to spend a lot of time and there was to
quarentee to pass to second round after this effort. However, I belived that we could success in this competition.
Although my group members were reluvtant, I began to research on the sector and I have learnt a lot of interesting
things about the case study. Then, by telling all my researchs, especially it was interesting and totally related to case
to my friends, I showed my belief to be succesful.

Please tell us about a time when you had to think about a problem from a different angle in order to solve it? What was
the problem? What questions did you ask to get under the surface of the problem? What solutions did you come up
with? What would you say was creative or innovative about the ideas you had? How did you get your ideas across to
the team? How did you draw other people's perspectives into the mix? What did you learn from the experience?

Please indicate your status: Fresh Graduate, Post Graduate, with 1 year experience

Please indicate the funtion you would like to work in and why?

Please briefly explain why you want to have a career in Telecommunications sector?

Please tell us about the most significant project you have ever been involved in and why?

Vodafone’s success comes from the outstanding people that make up their team, and they
believe that their future depends on attracting, rewarding and retaining those who share the
‘can-do’ attitude. Those who excel at Vodafone thrive on challenge, are open minded about
where their career might take them, and are eager to take on new responsibilities whenever
and wherever the opportunity arises. They are building a culture where employees feel valued
and empowered to get the job done, where they work together and help others to do the same,
and where they are passionate about where they’re going. Vodafone is committed to
maintaining and developing a passion for people, believing its success depends on a
workforce that is rich in its diversity of thinking, perspectives, backgrounds and culture. It
aims to achieve this by promoting diversity and creating a working culture that embraces
individual differences and recognises the contribution everyone can make to the success of the
business.

In a company this diverse, people’s individual needs and responsibilities vary enormously,
and that’s why they have developed a Flexible Working policy to help find the most efficient
and convenient ways of getting things done. This could mean staggering start and finish times
to meet personal commitments, switching from full to part-time hours, paid paternity leave for
new fathers or a phased return to work after lengthy absences. Vodafone make it easier to take
the environmentally friendly option too, with free buses to and from work for people living in
and around Newbury, Banbury and Warrington.

There is a strong team spirit at Vodafone and most people work alongside others.
If you are a likeable person then other teams tend to help you out quite readily.
The team I work for are a good bunch and work really hard to deliver results and somebody is always
there to help out if you are struggling with a problem of any sort.

However, there are other teams of people who are not so helpful - on average, I would say that in any
given team of 6 people, only 4 are actually capable of doing the job they are employed to do.
This is partly historical and due to the way in which the company has expanded over the past 7 years -
people have been placed in roles which they are not suited to rather than making them redundant.

My line managers have mostly been very good (apart from 1 who I really disliked).
I have had compassionate leave on a few occasions and this has been given freely by my manager - but
beware as other managers are not so flexible as mine have been.

The staff phone scheme is okay although if you are a heavy user then you may be better off on one of
Vodafone's public tariffs - I am not kidding !
Because although you get free line rental and subsidised calls you DO pay for every call whereas on a
"bundled" tariff you have a number of minutes included in your line rental.
At the top end of the scale these bundled minutes are very generous and work out much cheaper than
the staff scheme.

Vodafone have outsourced their payroll department and it is almost impossible to contact anybody if you
have a pay query.
The telephone line is never answered and your emails are not replied to, although in my experience, your
email will be actioned but they just won't tell you that they have done so !

An interesting point of note is that the company relies heavily on email - many people email others who
sit across the other side of the office rather than walk across and talk to them !

1 Please indicate your status: Fresh Graduate, Post Graduate, with 1 year experience

2 Please indicate in which city you’d like to work? Please, prioritise top 3 cities.

3 Please briefly explain why you want to have a career in Telecommunications sector.

4 Please briefly explain what working at Vodafone means for you.

5. Please tell us about a challenging task you deliberately chose to undertake. What was the
situation? What was the task you chose to undertake? Why did you choose to take on this
task? What was challenging about the task? How did you tackle those challenges? What did
you learn from undertaking this challenging task?

6 Please give us an example of a time when you had to motivate and energise others in order
to achieve a shared goal. What was the situation? What was the shared goal? How did you
feel about the goal? What did you do to motivate others to achieve the goal? What was the
outcome? What else could you have done to motivate or energise the other people?
7 Please tell us about a time when you had to think about a problem from a different angle in
order to solve it. What was the problem? What questions did you ask to get under the surface
of the problem? What solutions did you come up with? What would you say was creative or
innovative about the ideas you had? How did you get your ideas across to the team? How did
you draw other people’s perspectives into the mix? What did you learn from the experience?

8 Please tell us about the most proud project you have ever been involved in and why?