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What motivated you to pursue your goals?
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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.
The reviewer wants to learn more about you than just your grades and scores. They're curious to learn more about who you are and why you chose your particular pursuits. How you answer this question could provide insights into how well you'll fit into their program, your likelihood to succeed, and what you'll contribute to their graduation rate and esteemed alumni. If you chose a career path you were pressured into, you're likely at a statistical disadvantage. That pressure, combined with the pressure of school, creates a higher likelihood of burning out and dropping out of the program. Whereas choosing to pursue goals that you are passionate about, and truly invested in, will more likely contribute to, and deliver your success. Keep this in mind when formulating your answer.
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.
"Kira provides the canvas for your custom questions, competencies, rubrics, and platform experience. Select your best-fit students for the right non-cognitive competencies by assessing for program fit and key traits like leadership, critical thinking, and communication skills."
Reviewers will break up each applicant's response according to their competencies. Kira defines competency as "the underlying quality or characteristic that a question is meant to assess." In addition to leadership, critical thinking, and communication, some of the other "key traits," or "competencies," Kira's platform scores for, are empathy, collaboration, integrity, resilience, judgement, and maturity. They'll then score each competency according to Kira's default 5-point scale, rating an applicant's response from poor, fair, good, great, to exceptional. Again, Kira defines a rubric as the criteria by which a reviewer determines how to score the applicant for a given competency. Their four primary rubrics are "collaboration, self-awareness, drive and grit, and critical thinking."
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.
"It's my life passion, and it's what I love to do. Do what you love. So, I've always been determined to be good at what I do. Do what you are good at, right? I love what I do, am passionate about what I do, and am good at what I do. All three of these continue to motivate me in my pursuits, which feels pure to me somehow."
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