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Question 19 of 30
How have you demonstrated intellectual curiosity and creativity in your academic pursuits?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Oxford prides itself on how diverse its students and staff are, having come from all over the world from all kinds of backgrounds, attributing this in part to making Oxford such an exciting learning environment. "Oxford students have academic ability and intellectual curiosity in common - but that's pretty much it!" So spend time exploring how they define academic ability and intellectual curiosity according to their culture. This will help you seem like you will fit into their culture and thrive in the environment they take pride in having built. "With around 23,000 students from across the globe at Oxford, each with an amazing range of interests, you will meet people like you and not like you. This is likely to be one of the most enjoyable and liberating aspects of your student life here."
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I can give you a recent example. A librarian once told me I was trying to check out too many books. It started when I buried my nose in one book, and the footnotes and citations in this book excited me so much that I kept getting up from that book and pulling the cited books off the shelves. Soon my stacks of books filled the whole table, and the librarian reprimanded me because there was no place for other people to sit. A week later, they posted a job for someone to sort and shelve the checked-out books, and I applied for the job. Then, they let me stay late and take up as much table space as I needed."
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