The opportunities and the environment of growth that Unilever provide attract me most to work for this organization.

And the platform of Unilever is designed to unleash the best of us which, in future, will drive us further to achieve our
long term career goals. Unilever should employ me because I think I met all of the criteria Unilever concerned for. I
am positive, people-oriented, focused and always determined to push my boundaries to go for that extra mile.
Gradually, I have developed the communication and analytical skills that make me understand the mindset of the
consumers and the market. Moreover, I always have a fascination about the idea of creativity and innovation. I love to
work with brands because from the very beginning of our grad program it happened to be one of my areas of interest.

Analytical

Tell me about a time when you came up with an idea that you had to obtain buy-in for
- What was the situation?
- What idea did you come up with?
- How did you come up with this idea?
- Who did you need to convince and why?
- How did you approach this?

When the students of 2014-year were still freshmen, I had a big concept about triggering them to
conduct some students creativity program’s teams. I was a eleventh-semester student at that time.
But I still took part in student’s extracurricular activities. I thought that the scientific climate in
my faculty was so poor. Students came to the university just to attend in class lesson with a
teacher just to obtain the GPA. They never took part in extracurricular activities giving them
many lessons. This condition was resulted in very poor achievements of the students in my
faculty. This was so different to other faculties. The faculty members never really concerned
about this matter except in the accreditation period.
Someday, I invited some new students to attend my informal meeting. I convinced them to come
one by one although some of them finally rejected my invitation through some excuses. That
day, about ten students from various years attended my meeting. I told them that we would create
some PKM groups. I also gave them some time to think about the idea that would be suitable as a
title. Some of us presented their ideas and the others just kept silence. Overall, we had very
pleasant meeting. At the end of the meeting, we had seven ideas that must be realized.
In my boarding house, I made those proposals alone. It took two days from the title to the
references. In two days, I could finish six unedited proposals while I made the seventh proposal
done by new students. The cost of printing and binding were allocated proportionally. I assigned
those new students to handle the complicated technical procedures of PKM but still gave them
some directions. They really had very good spirit and effort; moreover some had their
willingness to cut the class.
Some months later, only two from seven proposals were passed the selection and accepted. I was
so proud, of course. I told them to assemble once more in common meeting room. That meeting
was mainly to discuss about the realization of PKM which passed the selection. In realization,
the technical matters were handled by them while I just took a role as an assistant. Sometimes I
assisted them in technical and in concept. They were overall fast learners.
2. Give me an example of situation when you have had a big problem and you needed help
to solve it.
- What was the problem?
- What impact was it having?
- Why did you need help?
- How did you identify who to ask for help?
- How did you reach out to this person?
This is very worth lesson in my life. It taught me how to keep my self-confidence, how to
appreciate other people but still stand on my own feet one year ago, January 2013; I took several
programs at several English courses. One of the courses named English-105.
One day, I started to think that my ability in English was decreased. I didn’t know exactly what
the main factor was. But when I was talking to my friend who spoke English badly-according to
my opinion, my ability looked like to disappear and I was just like an empty vessel.
I was so depressed that I just confined myself from speaking English and tried to clear my mind
from those matters. Someday after class, I disturbed her time just to talk and tried to figure it out.
I asked many questions and complained to her. She actually recognized my good talent. She tried
to convince me that I have very good competencies and to return my self-confidence. In the end
of conversation, she gave me some useful advices.
Firstly, I had to strengthen my endurance because endurance in learning English is very
important. Secondly, I had to learn and talk in English to people whose their English are better
than I in all aspects, such as fluency, pronunciation and diction. Finally, her last advice is that I
had to improve my English and self-confidence.
3. Tell me about a time when you spotted an opportunity and made it happen
- What was the situation?
- How did you spot the opportunity?
- What prompted you to get involved?
- How did your experience/skills/offering fit in with what was required overall?
- What feedback did they give you?
- How valuable was your help do you think?

In 2008, I saw very big street banner hung on the university’s backside wall. While walking
alongside the road, I read the official announcement from my university. That was about English
Debate Competition. This event is held annually. The content of the banner attracted me so much
because from the first winner to fifth winner, they would be given certain prizes and I was sure
that it was really big amount of money for a student like me. I was standing in front of the banner
and imagining if I were the fifth winner, I would obtain five million. But I woke up from my
dream soon after I realized that my English ability was so bad. Actually I ever involved in
similar competition when I was still a freshman but that was a bad competition, without any
preparation.
Some days later, a guy named Bayu, a UNS student from my faculty, economics faculty,
attached some pamphlets about the competition on the information center. He was a delegation
from faculty who had a duty to recruit two teams with three students each. Then, some of my
friends suggested me to participate in the competition. I was afraid in the beginning because I
knew students enrolling the competition had very good ability. I still kept trying on to do my best
effort. Finally, I registered my name to the committee.
The first meeting was held after couples of week. All participants were gathered in Faculty’s
conference room. Mr Bayu wearing very formal blouse, gave us some directions for almost a
half hour then the participants were given a topic to discuss after divided into several groups.
After discussion, each group should express the arguments.
The selection day was come. I asked to my friend who had been experienced in debate
competition for giving his recommended answers related to the given topic. Mr Bayu himself
directly selected us. I presented my opinion just like a stammer but he told me to relax. After
five-minute presentation, he gave me some comments.
Unexpectedly, my name was listed on short-listed name of candidates. I was the second group
along with Mr. Bekti and Miss Tata while Mr Bayu was the first group with Miss Anna and Miss
Annisa. Practice for competition was held four times a week after making a schedule
synchronization. We should build the cases for 56 motions provided. Mr Bayu also invited the
most experienced teacher in debate, Mrs Retno Tanding. She had been in Europe for almost 4
years and now she is in USA.
The practices took approximately a month. Two hours before the competition, we were taking
picture together. Our teams wore same dress code – white blouse. There were 26 teams
competing with two teams as guest team. Every session of debate would be started by the first
speaker of the affirmative team followed by the first speaker of the negative team until the last
speaker of the negative team. They were very wonderful in their performance and they competed
strictly. During the battle, we supported each other, gave time signal to our team member and
motivated them. Unfortunately, my team was eliminated in quarter final. Lucky, we were in fifth
place (that was my biggest dream when I was standing in front of that big banner-my dream
came true) and another team was in third place. Since then, we were all good friends and the
faculty members include my faculty’s dean, gave us their best appreciation.
on the event of North south Annual picnic, there was a shortage of bus seat, all were the bus we had
arranged 40 buses with 50 seated arrangement but there were 5 buses with 44 seat, and we did not
noticed that. as a result we could not able to provide the seat with ticket serial number and we needed
2 extra bus, so I came up with idea that lets handle the situation with giving some refreshment to them
who did not get any seat. and this actually worked out to handle the immediate situation. And after that
I talked to assigned faculty member and asked him to arrange extra buses, and he ensured me that he
will arrange bus within two hour, so in the main time I talked with the people who did not get the seat
and asked their co operation try to convene them it was a mistake and it will never happen again and as
a penalty we will re back their 50% ticket fare.