Bronze Wow Statement

Bronze WOW Statement

Understanding and Knowing Yourself

I am eager to pursue a career in architecture and I consider myself to be effective in a team situation, developing people skills and my ability to solve problems. I believe these skills are vital for an architect which and will be useful in my career path to become an architect. In recent times, I was a team of three and we had to carry out a project about the anatomy of a building. The aim of the week was to understand and explore a domestic-scale building from physical makeup, philosophical and pragmatic intention. In this project, I found myself could delegate tasks to my team and helped them to understand what their job tasks were and motivated them to ensure the final project will carry on smoothly. During the week, I researched floor plans, elevations, and sections of the building by websites, books and spoke to the librarian for extra information. Therefore, I realised that I am able to solve a lot of problems such as the ratio change of the building, give solutions of problems that team provided and so on. Through effective planning and teamwork, we had completed the project within the target date and built a good relationship between of us.

Although I gave presentations and speeches in my secondary school, I would like to learn more about oral communication skill so that I could produce a good presentation or speech, especially when facing to different people. I am interested in pursuing a career in architecture and believe that this skill is vital for an architect. So far to develop in this area, I had enrolled on English Support Classes to raise my oral communication skill.

Work Values, Motivation, Drive and Energy

I strongly believe that personal fulfilment is a significant and important value for any career and our lives. It is important for me to fulfil my plans and dreams because I am a person who hopes that everything will be the best and accomplish the goals, which I set. It gives me a motivation, happiness and build self-esteem. Confidence and thinking outside of the box are also important values for this career because people are more likely to trust confident people decision. Simultaneously, creativity is one of the most valuable skills because people afraid to challenge from other ways. So, I have had the opportunity to develop these attributes on my future qualified placements.

I used to play basketball in my secondary school. To get the championship in a basketball’s competition, I persuaded my four friends to join a team and participate the competition. Certainly, I had a responsibility to develop their skills and ensured that five of us had a communication to understanding each other. Therefore, I had to arrange a schedule for our training without effect coursework. As a consequence of this experience, I realised that I had developed my leading and communicating skills, my ability to plan and organise and also teamwork. However, we had won the competition and this experience and feelings deeply in my mind.

Relating to Others

As mentioned above, during the basketball’s training week we had to discuss strategy in different ways such as how could we defence, how could we offence and so on.  Thus, we had to plan how long should we spend the time in our training. My responsibility was to listen to their points and decide which is the finest and make a result for it. Moreover, I had to research some information of strategies for my comrades to reference it and improve our skills. Even though we had different opinions on strategies and timetable between five of us, I had listened and understood their opinion as well as I could and coordinated with our team.