A General Knowledge Essay

A General Knowledge EssayThe Foreign Service General Knowledge Essay, often called GSE, is a general knowledge essay. It is a question-and-answer format that allows for different subject matter expertise. It is sometimes also called GSEx, General Subject Knowledge Exposition, and GME (General Military Knowledge).There are different ways of presenting the GSE. Some students choose to use the same format they would use for any other essay, while others choose to write the essay in a unique way. The best way to present an essay is to be unique in the context of the essay itself.When writing an essay, the student is required to state their opinions and experience on the topics and be accurate. A good way to do this is to try and document as much information as possible about the topic. For example, if the topic is World War II, the student could write a GSE to include all the topics that pertain to World War II. This will give the student a more thorough understanding of the topic and he lp them be more accurate in their information.A GSE can serve multiple purposes. Many topics will have short essays with limited information. The essay can be in a genre that is limited in depth, so that the essay will not be too long. The essay can also be one that requires the student to cover a specific set of facts or experiences. The goal of GSE is to provide the student with enough information to make a strong point in their essay.The Foreign Service GSE typically requires an applicant to answer each question and discuss the pertinent information in detail. There are specific guidelines to follow for preparing a GSE. These guidelines provide guidelines to ensure that the student is providing an honest and accurate account of their experiences and information.When providing information in the essay, it is important to keep everything accurate. This ensures that a Student may not get their cover letter rejected if a background check reveals inaccuracies that will reveal their tr ue identity.The Foreign Service GSE is required by all federal agencies to be filled out by applicants. The essay can take anywhere from one to four hours to prepare.

Don’t Be Afraid of Failure Get to Know It Wellâ€Your Career Will Thank You Hult Blog

If you haven’t failed at anything by the time you read this sentence, then we at Hult Labs urge you to share your secret for continued success in the comments section below. But I’d bet the $20 in my pocket (or the mocha on my desk) that you’ve dealt with failure at some point in your life and career – and probably more than once. I’m also willing to bet that after the sting of failure receded somewhat you realized that you had learned a thing or two, and that your ability to bounce back each time was a bit faster and better still, a bit easier. But before it can get easier, there’s no evading the baptism by fire that only failure can bring in school, at work, and in life. In 2010, Guillermo Sanchez Jr., just out of business school only two years, was tapped by his family’s business to lead a brand new venture. Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Sanchez was tasked with piloting a new outsourcing service for a client, an IT distributor, in Texas. The economic environment at the time was still clouded by the recent financial crisis, and the exchange rate between the US Dollar and Mexican Peso fluctuated wildly on a daily basis. Both sides signed a contract that included a fixed exchange rate for services – one that Sanchez began to regret when the Mexican economy soon rebounded. â€Å"Even though we were meeting the clients expectations, having an exchange rate that wasnt aligned to reality was making us lose a lot of money,† said Sanchez. â€Å"Not only that, but we started having problems recruiting because we could only offer below market rates. It was a big failure. We nearly had to close shop the very first year.† Mother Nature had also played a role: when Hurricane Alex hit Monterrey in June of 2010, the powerful storm brought the city to a standstill, and displaced Sanchez’s team for three months. It was only when Sanchez approached the client to discuss the impending failure of the project (and his familys business) that both parties were able to collaborate on what he called a â€Å"mutually-designed solution.† Prior to the sit-down, Sanchez had also learned firsthand how the â€Å"blame game† only served to obscure a real, workable solution for everyone involved. â€Å"Failure can come due to unpredictable factors and not be anybodys fault. Thus, finding who to blame is not only harmful, but it is also often pointless,† he said. In his article â€Å"Make Failure Your Greatest Asset,† Ted Coine asserts that the experience of failing is critical because it helps us to develop â€Å"one of the most important traits a leader needs to be successful: empathy.† But you don’t just have to take Coin’s word for it. Business schools are beginning to recognize that successful graduates need more than â€Å"the chops† to get things done; they need essential skills like persistency, resilience and empathy. Because the business world highly values these skills, business schools are now also looking for them in prospective students. In the article â€Å"B-Schools Know You Think, but How Do You Feel?,† Melissa Korn writes that schools are trying to choose from a crowded pool of well-qualified applicants and get a sense of the human being behind the application by adding personality tests and†¦in-person interviews to the traditional battery of essays, transcripts and recommendations. Now, prospective M.B.A. students need to shine by showing emotional traits like empathy, motivation, [and] others. As business schools experiment with ways to measure softer skills among applicants and students (and figure out how to help students develop these skills further) one thing is clear: assessment tools may show students where they stand in the moment, but they don’t offer an action plan for improvement. Whats a surefire way to improve your levels of resiliency and empathy, among others? You have to take risks and you have to fail. Rinse and repeat. Forever. And that’s OK. â€Å"Everybody tries to avoid failure,† said Sanchez, after recounting the story about the project that nearly failed. â€Å"Risk is inherent in business. If you try to avoid risk, youll never get any business done. If we had waited until circumstances were perfect, we would have never started our test pilot. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you dont, and thats fine, as long as you keep trying.† Did the near-failure of the project lead him to feel a greater degree of empathy? â€Å"I’d like to think so,† said Sanchez. â€Å"I learned a lot about risk from business school, but in a very abstract way. I learned how to quantify it, but not how it feels or how to face it. It definitely took being in a real world situation to learn about risk and failure more personally. It is more valuable to know oneself in the face of failure than to calculate a probability. I would advise students to try out new things that are hard and fail constantly until they succeed so that the learning never goes away.† So, in a sense, failure can be our ally, right? And maybe if we look at it that way we could think about deliberately courting it from time to time, carefully at first, and then more brazenly over time. Because maybe if we get to know it a little bit better we don’t have to be so scared when it comes to visit. Instead of running and hiding, we can sit it down for coffee and a good talk. Maybe wed invite failure to come around more by being more willing to take smarter, riskier bets in our jobs and in our lives. And if we pay attention, maybe failure would teach us that we are more capable, resilient, and creative than we ever imagined. About a year ago, writer Neil Gaiman gave a commencement address at the University of Arts in Philadelphia in which he told the graduating class: â€Å"When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art.† Quick interjection: you don’t have to be an artist for the aforementioned words to resonate. Substitute whatever your passion is wherever the word â€Å"art† appears, and it should hit home. Back to Gaiman: â€Å"Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art†¦Make it on the bad days, make it on the good days, too.† Through life’s slings and arrows (and rainbows and rose gardens), make the commitment to persevere no matter what. So it’s in the spirit of professional and personal growth that we’ll conclude with another rousing, if not failure inducing, Gaiman quote. â€Å"If you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.† Photo courtesy of Stock Monkeys.com. Hult offers a range of highly skills-focused and employability-driven business school programs including a range of MBA options and a comprehensive one year Masters in International Business. To find out more, take a look at our blog Why going to business school in 2019 is a resolution you should keep. Download a brochure or get in touch today to find out how Hult can help you to learn about the business world, the future, and yourself. Related posts News Building success: Dual Degree students win at USASBE Community How going beyond business at Hult helped me launch my company Admissions Accepted Students Weekend: A weekend to remember Careers Career mapping: How to become an executive in the next 5 years 0 Thought leadership How to prepare for an uncertain future in a world of AI News Is mail a dying form for businesses and marketing? Instagram Hult Rotation offers you a chance to study in a truly global way. Our rotation program allows you to study and be immersed in some of the finest cities in the world. 📠¸: @jasminmanzano . Hult Rotation offers you a chance to study in a truly global way. Our rotation program allows you to study and be immersed in some of the finest cities in the world. 📠¸: @jasminmanzano . Each year, Hult seeks to enroll a talented and ambitious incoming class from all over the world. We look for diverse students with a wide range of experiences, perspectives, and interests—students who will thrive in our unique educational atmosphere. Are you ready for a truly global experience? 📠¸: @iambrunadiniz . Each year, Hult seeks to enroll a talented and ambitious incoming class from all over the world. We look for diverse students with a wide range of experiences, perspectives, and interests—students who will thrive in our unique educational atmosphere. Are you ready for a truly global experience? 📠¸: @iambrunadiniz . We’re excited to start 2020 on a ranking high! Hult is proud to have been placed #28 in Poets Quants 2020 rankings for Best Undergraduate Business Schools in the US. Taking a huge leap of 32 places from our 2019 position, we’re also very happy to have secured top positions in key categories like: life-changing experience, practicality of the degree, and global immersion. . With five global campuses, a student body of over 130 nationalities, and a learn-by-doing approach—Hult offers a student experience like no other. . We’re excited to start 2020 on a ranking high! Hult is proud to have been placed #28 in Poets Quants 2020 rankings for Best Undergraduate Business Schools in the US. Taking a huge leap of 32 places from our 2019 position, we’re also very happy to have secured top positions in key categories like: life-changing experience, practicality of the degree, and global immersion. . With five global campuses, a student body of over 130 nationalities, and a learn-by-doing approach—Hult offers a student experience like no other. . â€Å"I’m from an engineering background and needed a whole new skill set for the industry I wanted to switch to. I learned a lot about myself and how I deal with being out of my comfort zone. I learned both soft and hard skills, from how to work in very diverse teams to key accounting metrics and strategy. I was surprised by how weak I was at certain tasks in English or how strong I actually was in other areas. Hult gave me opportunities to try new things and meet people from places I never thought I would have friends. . My internship experiences gave me the chance to broaden my view of different cultures and different companies. I had the opportunity to work and live with people whose values differed from people in my home country. I thought that this would be difficult, but it gave me the chance to reflect on my own values and assess if they were a result of my home country environment or if they were intrinsically mine. . Diederick ter Kulve (@diederick.terkulve) Netherlands Masters in International Business . â€Å"I’m from an engineering background and needed a whole new skill set for the industry I wanted to switch to. I learned a lot about myself and how I deal with being out of my comfort zone. I learned both soft and hard skills, from how to work in very diverse teams to key accounting metrics and strategy. I was surprised by how weak I was at certain tasks in English or how strong I actually was in other areas. Hult gave me opportunities to try new things and meet people from places I never thought I would have friends. . My internship experiences gave me the chance to broaden my view of different cultures and different companies. I had the opportunity to work and live with people whose values differed from people in my home country. I thought that this would be difficult, but it gave me the chance to reflect on my own values and assess if they were a result of my home country environment or if they were intrinsically mine. . Diederick ter Kulve (@diederick.terkulve) Netherlands Masters in International Business . Say a big hello to our Bachelor of Business Administration program cover star, Elisa Orus Plana âÅ" ¨ . â€Å"I’m excited for the future—especially that I cant predict whats going to happen. Maybe Ill end up in Mexico working for a trading company or maybe in Africa, developing my own business. Everything is possible, and the options are constantly changing. I love the idea that Im never going to be stuck doing the same job until the end of my life if I dont want it to be like this. . Hult really supports me and my ambitions and truly believes that we deserve to be considered as professionals as well as students. Here, I get to express not just my opinions but all elements of myself. From my creative side with the Fashion Society to my finance and business sides in Trading Club and the Management Consulting Club. We get a different type of learning here. Not just essential knowledge and theory, but practical skills and mindset. The school is always evolving. We’re encouraged to innovate and to always look for new ways of doing traditional things. We learn how to be more confident and become aware of how we can impact our environment. The school aims to help you become a better version of yourself and to stand out from the crowd.â€Å" . Elisa Orus Plana French Bachelor of Business Administration Class of 2021 Say a big hello to our Bachelor of Business Administration program cover star, Elisa Orus Plana âÅ" ¨ . â€Å"I’m excited for the future—especially that I cant predict whats going to happen. Maybe Ill end up in Mexico working for a trading company or maybe in Africa, developing my own business. Everything is possible, and the options are constantly changing. I love the idea that Im never going to be stuck doing the same job until the end of my life if I dont want it to be like this. . Hult really supports me and my ambitions and truly believes that we deserve to be considered as professionals as well as students. Here, I get to express not just my opinions but all elements of myself. From my creative side with the Fashion Society to my finance and business sides in Trading Club and the Management Consulting Club. We get a different type of learning here. Not just essential knowledge and theory, but practical skills and mindset. The school is always evolving. We’re encouraged to innovate and to always look for new ways of doing traditional things. We learn how to be more confident and become aware of how we can impact our environment. The school aims to help you become a better version of yourself and to stand out from the crowd.â€Å" . Elisa Orus Plana French Bachelor of Business Administration Class of 2021"> During the final days of 2019, you probably reflected on what you’ve accomplished this year—and even this decade—and what you’d like to achieve in 2020. Let us know in the comments below. During the final days of 2019, you probably reflected on what you’ve accomplished this year—and even this decade—and what you’d like to achieve in 2020. Let us know in the comments below. â€Å"The first time we did group work on the program, I went head-to-head with a colleague. It taught me a lot about how I see people, how people see me, and how conflict can be resolved in a kind and productive way. The best feedback you get, when delivered constructively, is the most critical because it really feeds into how you lead. I’ve completely reversed my leadership style—the result is so much richer and more powerful when you lead from behind and lead with strength. . Studying in tandem with working, whilst challenging, gave me the perfect platform to directly apply learning concepts into my business environment, the competitive landscape, and the real-estate industry as a whole. When I started the program, I was very happy in my corporate role. But my courage and aspirations grew to the point that I took on a whole new direction. Having my career coach, Joanna, as a sounding board allowed me to really be strategic and get to know myself. She coached me thro ugh all the interviews, the research, and the questions. It went in parallel with what I was doing academically and after six months everything just clicked. . I went into the EMBA knowing I had nothing to lose and I’ve come out with everything. Great strength, global friends, amazing learning, mentors from professors, a job I love, and the knowledge that I can set my mind to achieve anything and with the right support and resources I’ll get there.† . Kashani Wijetunga British, New Zealand Sri Lankan Associate Director Senior Strategy Consultant CBRE EMBA Class of 2019 . â€Å"The first time we did group work on the program, I went head-to-head with a colleague. It taught me a lot about how I see people, how people see me, and how conflict can be resolved in a kind and productive way. The best feedback you get, when delivered constructively, is the most critical because it really feeds into how you lead. I’ve completely reversed my leadership style—the result is so much richer and more powerful when you lead from behind and lead with strength. . Studying in tandem with working, whilst challenging, gave me the perfect platform to directly apply learning concepts into my business environment, the competitive landscape, and the real-estate industry as a whole. When I started the program, I was very happy in my corporate role. But my courage and aspirations grew to the point that I took on a whole new direction. Having my career coach, Joanna, as a sounding board allowed me to really be strategic and get to know myself. She coached me thro ugh all the interviews, the research, and the questions. It went in parallel with what I was doing academically and after six months everything just clicked. . I went into the EMBA knowing I had nothing to lose and I’ve come out with everything. Great strength, global friends, amazing learning, mentors from professors, a job I love, and the knowledge that I can set my mind to achieve anything and with the right support and resources I’ll get there.† . Kashani Wijetunga British, New Zealand Sri Lankan Associate Director Senior Strategy Consultant CBRE EMBA Class of 2019 . â€Å"It was now or never. I knew that I’d have likely stayed in my neighborhood for years to come if I didn’t take this opportunity. I’d not lived or studied outside of the U.S. before. So I left my job as a global strategist at an advertising agency and moved halfway around the world. I’ve come back a more culturally aware, well-versed person. I’ve realized that everything is a learning experience and an opportunity for growth. Ill definitely carry this mindset with me into the future. Technology and social media allow us to be different people in several places at once. Im excited to see how I can establish myself in whatever city Ill be lucky enough to call home and still maintain deep connections with people all over the world. I’m inspired by my classmates every day. Hearing some of their life stories and how getting this degree fits into their greater mission has been very humbling. My biggest challenge has been finding the ‘right’ path for me. There have been rooms Ive felt like I shouldnt be in, but now Im proud to feel as though I truly belong, wherever I am.† . Dwayne Logan, Jnr. American MBA Class of 2019 . â€Å"It was now or never. I knew that I’d have likely stayed in my neighborhood for years to come if I didn’t take this opportunity. I’d not lived or studied outside of the U.S. before. So I left my job as a global strategist at an advertising agency and moved halfway around the world. I’ve come back a more culturally aware, well-versed person. I’ve realized that everything is a learning experience and an opportunity for growth. Ill definitely carry this mindset with me into the future. Technology and social media allow us to be different people in several places at once. Im excited to see how I can establish myself in whatever city Ill be lucky enough to call home and still maintain deep connections with people all over the world. I’m inspired by my classmates every day. Hearing some of their life stories and how getting this degree fits into their greater mission has been very humbling. My biggest challenge has been finding the ‘right’ path for me. There have been rooms Ive felt like I shouldnt be in, but now Im proud to feel as though I truly belong, wherever I am.† . Dwayne Logan, Jnr. American MBA Class of 2019 . Happy New Year, Hultians! . Happy New Year, Hultians! .