Essay topics in 2022
In 2022, the Chevening Committee asked candidates to write the up to 500 words essays about the following topics.
- Chevening is looking for individuals who will be future leaders or influencers in their home countries. Explain how you meet this requirement, using clear examples of your own leadership and influencing skills to support your answer.
- Chevening is looking for individuals with strong professional relationship-building skills, who will engage with the Chevening community and influence and lead others in their chosen profession. Please explain how you build and maintain relationships in a professional capacity, using clear examples of how you currently do this, and outline how you hope to use these skills in the future.
- Outline why you have selected your chosen three university courses, and explain how this relates to your previous academic or professional experience and your plans for the future. Please enter new information and examples here and not duplicate the information you have entered on the work experience and education section of this form
- Chevening is looking for individuals who have a clear post-study career plan. Please outline your immediate plans upon returning home and your longer-term career goals. You may wish to consider how these relate to what the UK government is doing in your country.
How should I prepare for Chevening essays?
To be honest with you, I spend a lot of time to write my essays before applying. These essays are significantly important, so if you are serious for Chevening scholarship, I would recommend for you to spend hours to structure your essays. I would like to give you some tips for your Chevening essays.
1. Understand Chevening Scholarships.
2. Structure you story behind four essays.
3. Develop your achievements/skills before your application.
Let me explain one by one.
Understand Chevening Scholarships
Chevening community is looking for a specific type of leaders. You need to explain how your experience and personalities fit to a Chevening leadership style. If you do not understand the leadership style, you cannot explain how good you are. I would like to strongly recommend that you understand the concepts of Chevening community by reading its websites or talking to Chevenors. I have advised several Chevneing applicants before, but many people did not understand this point. Therefore, their essays did not make any sense. It does not matter how good you are. You need to fit to Chevening style.
Structure you story behind four essays
Chevening committee requires four different essays about leadership, networking, schools, and career plan. Many people write four different essays, but please remember that all four essays need to be connected as your story. You have a dream. You have worked for it to make your dream come true, but you realized something is missing. This is why you need to study at a British school. Right? Many people forget this point and write unconnected essays. You need to express your ability with four essays. This is not easy, but if you do a brain storming before writing essays, it is possible to structure your essays well as I did. I always advise my applicants this point. Some of my applicants passed document selection procedures.
Develop your achievements/skills before your application
Chevening has high standards. You might not have full experiences/skills which Chevening committee requires. If you realize you do not have it before application, you are lucky! You can get some experiences to support your skills. For example, if Chevening is looking for an influencer, you can start tweeting in Twitter or LinkedIn to support your career goals.
Summary
In this article, I introduced the essay themes and three tips to write Chevening essays.
- Understand Chevening Scholarships.
- Structure you story behind four essays.
- Develop your achievements/skills before your application.
