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Hi, guys. Thank you. Because you have joined. I'm just waiting for my co host to join in, and then we'll get started. Um, while I'm awaiting her, I'll just go through the beginning slides. Uh, so welcome to the personal statements. Healthcare session for mental health care that mine is Freddy Cooper. And I'm gonna be one of two presented to night. I need to be on the right. Page two, Teo. So today's hosts, We have myself. I'm Freddy. I'm a third year medical student, and we have Charlotte who is just joining as we speak. And she's an assistant locus college ist in the West London community mental health team. I'll talk a little bit about us later as to why were worth listening to about personal statements. Any point during the session. If you got any questions, please do any queries off the outside of the Cymbalta. Welcome to email me. That's my email address. You also probably got sent the joining link by me. Or you can follow us on Instagram or followers Facebook. We're trying to put more more there and try and get better with us in media. The other bits I want to just quickly point out this cell once month. Serious. So this will take place on Tuesdays. We've now sorted out all of our stuff up with the October November sessions are now sorted. This well, So those are definitely to go ahead and got the people to teach those now sorted. So, yeah, that's a really good stuff coming up. Please do. Come along. This should all be really good sessions. Likewise, we can now also begin to promote our next block, Siris. That will be once every single week on a Thursday. These will be anatomy. So cardiac, respiratory renal in urinary guess traditional urological, head, neck and 80 again. She will be really good sessions. It's, um, really, really exciting speakers coming out for those doctors Tim Foster and Doctor Chow. Brilliant, brilliant speakers. So please do Please do come and join in. If interested, we're gonna be basing those off off, sort of quite loosely offered the syllabus for nursing or paramedics in the degrees, so they're gonna be very relevant. Anyone who wants to things that medicine or physio, but they're they're also going to just a relevant people wanted to course. It's like I'm in nursing anything in healthcare. Really, They should be really good sessions. Please do come along rough ever do. Let's go on to some personal statements that looks different to how it should for May, which is annoying May. But we'll see what happens. So that looks weird. Lost some of the like my slides looking with that will carry on. They should look nicer than this, and that's very annoying. Quickly See, if I can was done back with it shows thumb right on my the power point. That's not showing them right on the presentation. How annoying, Uh, set. We'll start talking a little bit and then we will talk with Yeah, let's not talk about so that these are basically important things to remember at the beginning. Remember your character limit. You know, remember, you have got 4000 characters. That's not a lot. When writing a person statement, you go get a lot of information into that. Very you go undense a lot of information into that, but also you can fill it up really quickly if you waffle if you're talking not talking nonsense necessarily. But if you're putting not vital information in there, so one good idea. Good advice I always receive when I was doing person statements is right. Mawr right. 6000 characters, 8000 characters. Whatever it is, set yourself a limit. It's a very arbitrary limit. You could write a smudge as you want, but but set, you know, aimed to do farm or than that 4000 and then cut of this out on bring it down because the bits you take out of the bets that aren't important and you will leave in all the really good material be reflective things like I learned. And I developed a really, really good phrases. If you go and say I'm great actor I am competent at or I do this, I do that. Actually, you don't sound like a very good student. You sound like you're trying to present yourself is like a finished article. Amrix Universities just don't want to finish article that they're looking for good students, people we're going to learn and develop, not necessarily people who are gonna, you know, end to the university, uh, really to leave. And then lastly, don't lie. Don't over exaggerates. Don't make yourself sound incredible when actually people can see straight through it. Some of the things you put in there to make yourself sound good. Quite clearly. Not true on those things. Very quickly. Make you look bad. Charlotte, Have you joined now? Yes, I'm here. Excellent. So, yes, that Charlotte is your co host for the evening. I'm going to quickly change my screen over to the next. The first bit. So give me a second here. We'll do that. Are a warm which screened want Know that two seconds. And yes, I do want that one that Yes. Has that changed? That's updated. Doesn't we Can see that. Excellent. Sudden. We're going to start by looking at what some of these courses have put up on their websites because actually is really interesting to look at what it's really interesting to look courses want you to see. But also, just you can give some really interesting information from this. I'm going to let you starlets start talking at this point. Is this sort of expert at this? So I'll start scrolling through in Charlotte. You start just shouting of things. Okay, so I suppose I'll start off body saying I know, actually looked at these web pages and Freddie has picked a couple of random and universities to look at, so I'm looking at them with fresh eyes. Um, so I suppose hopefully together, we can find some kind of helpful information. Eso, I suppose, for the obvious, is the information section on the right hand side. So looking at the requirements for the degree, So there were quite a levels or know some places, you know, well, except on a level alternatives on deviously there's the basics. Such a duration of degree. We're not gonna go into that. But obviously, you need to make sure you meet their requirements, um, to apply. Um, so we'll kind of move on, you know, a little bit further down. So there's a section here that says key benefits about, you know, about the degree I think through reading these you can kind of get a bit of a feel for suppose. What values are of the courses you're applying to on down? Yeah, I think that's nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Let's stay on. This is also just if this is what the university is trying to sell itself ads, it's worth knowing. You know, if these are the bits the University. Think of really good for that course. It's worth having a good look at these and so thinking about that. Because if that's what the university wants to you to think about it, you can definitely help tailor yourself towards us a bit. They thought it forten enough to put their key points up the top. So listen to it, Adam. Same here, in course, Essentials. These things here about the course that they think are important. And again these things just just worth knowing, maybe not necessarily going to help you with a personal statement. But for example, if you wanted to do an interview right now, if they if they wanted you to do an interview, I would say these are things that you really do want. Uh, you want to know? Because if they ask you why this course, these are basically the things they want you to rattle off just to clarify. I don't think I pointed out. So this is specifically looking at the medicine M B Bs course at King's. This is actually the degree I'm currently doing, and I picked it because it's a website. I knew. It's one I've looked at in the past before I applied. So I know quite a lot about what's going to come up on this, and we're going to show you another course at same university next, and then look at some different universities just to get an idea. I think it's quite important to kind of note what you said earlier, Freddie, which is, although they are, you know, MGS degree aims train students, but to become these bullet points, um, they're kind of supposed wallet use they're looking for in an applicant. They're not looking for the finished products. It just kind of reiterate you don't you don't need to kind of be 100% there, but I suppose they're looking for somebody who is trainable on do kind of maybe hold similar like the usual. You know, they're looking for people who are team players well, here around your passion about learning. But you don't need to be 100% there and making yourself sound like you could move into these particular areas. You know that you are capable of critical thinking or you enjoy critical thinking and things like that. I think Do these all things help take the boxes, so I'm just going to click the other. But I really want to show this one is we click entry requirements on Quite a few universities have this. Obviously, they've got the standard stuff you need here. Grades, subjects, etcetera, going through all that the I be other bits you need UK Cat. There's also fairly standard the non academic requirements. Bit here, sometimes in the universities, has some useful information that you might want. In this case, it's just very factual. It's the age and that sort of stuff that you need to be actually not so important for the personal statement here. Other universities are show later on 10, 2 lumps stuff in here, things they want you to be able to do so. Then, if we go further down access to higher educational, functional skills, international occassions, none of that is useful. This is now. We will start to get interesting here. It's also you got your, uh, this stuff this is worth knowing again on there is that that I've really wanted to point out there's a real There's quite a lot on this. I just realized, Yeah, there's a whole bit here about personal statement of reference. So what are you gonna put in your personal statement? We'll have a read for it. See what they say they want in a personal statement. Well, they're looking for, um and it's important to, you know, to match what you're writing toe what they're gonna be marking you against. Then finally, where's the bit I want I can find it. That was really good bit of it on a slide because I couldn't find it. Might be in that. Sorry, I'm losing myself something. Uh huh. The trick, if it's worth a good take over this, is that there's a lot of really useful information on the web sites. Eso really kind of read through that thoroughly because you can get a really good sense of, you know, the type of applicant that the university is looking for. The the type of skills that they're hoping for you to be able to develop over time. Um, and these are things that you can kind of touch on with a new application. Um, and that maybe highlights, um, of this feels that you're you're working on all the value on things that are important to you. I know. I just checked my like, cheat sheets I made. And I know where it waas, but they've shortened it. It used to be in this section. Uh, so let me just quickly swap back slide to my actual slides. Um, for a second. This is where cleverly. All right, free prepared. This one. There we go. So this is some screenshots I took from this page a couple days ago. Actually, I'm quite impressed. They've updated it since then, but here, under the same section, the entry requirements section we've got at the bottom of got the age of entrapped patient health stuff. But then here we got some bits they listed originally saying desirable on very desirable traits. These were things that they had actually put out saying These are what we want you to have before replying for this course on these effectively, I would have used a bit like a picture, like making sure that you've ticked off all of their sort of desirable active activities. Desirable background in your statement. Um, Charlotte. So something that I have found quite helpful when applying to the jobs, of course, is is first kind of taking a really thoroughly look at the Web Web sites at kind of the available material that they put out there publicly, because lots of places do have things like this. The desirable criteria, um, things that they're kind of quite looking for in an applicant and and something that I've found quite helpful myself is to make a bit of a a table or a list you can apply to. What is it? Five schools that one non med school. If it's medicine, which is this course, or you can apply for four of any of the others, any other health care cools And you know, with with those four slash five applications, you've only got one statement to write you a model of them. So you kind of want to aim it. That kind of a more broadly, um, so something I found quite helpful is to kind of look a some of the common on D values in the common kind of desirable criterias, the different university they're looking for and all the ones overlap really kind of have a home in your application, because there are things that quite there things are quite broad across a lot of the courses you want to go to. So that's something I found really helpful. And when applying, listing these things down and having a look at, you know, having a look at where they overlap, making sure you use those as take points affecting me. Uh, so let me swap back screens again. Two seconds. That screen explain isn't us. The king's medicine one is in there. Okay, good. Let me get the king's medicine for a second. So as it loads if it loads, Come on. There we go. So I thought we'll also look at different healthcare course within the same university. This time I've got the nursing corps Sabot kings. So again, obviously you got You're saying basically out to the website, it's going to be the same. Obviously, the details here of updated accordingly the day levels, three years, key benefits. Here again, you've got different elements. And again, this is the same university. Different courses begin. You can still see what the university is looking for and the person who's going to be working in the administration off this reading your personal statement isn't going to just be assigned to one course. They will be assigned to maybe a department that generally just everything and, uh, forget they'll have a tick sheet and they'll have personal statements and their job to go through the person statements and see who meets the tick sheet. So having a reader, a couple of other courses you're university puts up can't hurt because they might come up some really interesting material. I know to set the top in those bill. It points. It said, You know, one of the examples they said is they're looking to develop leaders in the sector. I mean, they're not expecting you to have led loads of stuff, but do you have any leadership experience? So you have new kind of, um, you know, being part of society, a school, or have you kind of let up a team project if they're looking for leaders? You know, that's something maybe you could highlight in your reputation, cause that's the kind of person they're looking for. If you don't have experience, are okay, but they've put it there. So they wanted to. You could pick up. You could pick up buzzwords effectively. The buzz words. They want some things like leadership team work. These are great buzz words, but you could find the ones that particular university of that particular set of universities wants. Um, which is really useful. So it's come down here and we'll go to intrigue. That's again. That's the most relevant when you're applying. And I'm hoping they've not changed this page, either. Also needs that's not so important. To put out standing requirements was the belt. Lots of these courses will kind of have overlapping information about this. Your list in process and similar things like that. Here we get, said the person. The thing of all of the things I lost these courses, they will vary the amount that they put in. So, you know, for things like guidance, a person statements. So this is the little bubble they've put here for their personal statement section for the nursing course. And I think it's got pretty much the same information that I read on it a couple days ago. Actually think they've made it slightly bigger than what I've read a couple days ago, which is quite different to their medicine one, Um, anything that thoughts through that Big's so and so. I suppose that listening it's probably something you're aware of, but it's your person. Statement isn't the only bit of your application, but it's the bit that is important to get you seeing, um, lots of the things you might be learning throughout the theories or throughout kind of your research into certain professions. It's not all gonna be able to fit into a statement. Unfortunately, um, that there are some really, really important, valuable things that you can kind of hold on to the later on down the line. So interviews, for example, and and you're probably going to write too much in your statement. And that's like Freddy said at the beginning, that's a really good place to start, is actually writing too much and cutting it down on sometimes that it might involve cutting out sections that you feel quite important. But that doesn't mean that they lost. It just means that he could come back to them at later stage during into these, um, very good point. So I think we'll move on from this one and look at a different university together now. So this one is now the paramedics in degree at ST Georges University, London. Next, So immediate thing. Also, it's a very different set up again, though they've got generally the same sort top tamps. They have also hear this course intrasection, which is a bit more detailed than the ones we saw with the Kings University ones. And actually, again, I I would give good, very thorough read to this before I was looking at the schools. Because again, this is again this is what they are promoting themselves. That's this is what they're saying about themselves on about what you're gonna be doing for the next three years if you get on this course. So I think this is a really important thing to have a read off and again whatever universities you're looking applying for, whatever courses give these things to read because it will tell you a lot of really good information toe aimed towards when you're writing a person statement, um, and basically affected to give you a specifications, A objective again, going to enter a choir mints. Now we have the normal sort of academic stuff. They all have that then going to non academics. We've got a personal statement section which I like. We're was like good personal statement section. Um but the orbits also point out here if they've got a work experience, an insight section, which I think is also worth a good read, because effectively, what you're trying to do is take many boxes as you can in that 4000 characters, to make them think, Yeah, this this person is right for our course So things that say things like work, experience and insight that that is ah, that just, you know, brilliant, valuable information to have a look at to try and get more on idea what they're after. Um, let's say you want to highlight Charlotte know, But I suppose you took is just, you know, talk about using that as a person. Specifications, I think, is really important with what you know, when you do start applying for jobs on HS jobs in the future, there is always a person specifications, and they are take points that they're looking for within a job. Unfortunately, with applying to courses a lot of the time, there isn't a person specification, so what you need to do is try and make you everyone on. I think that that's kind of the main thing we're trying to teach you from the section is really looking for those key points within their website and within the information the courses put publicly to try and use as though it's a person's recitations. You can take off all those things that they're looking for in an applicant and especially focusing on the things that I haven't. Lots of the, you know, similar points that lots of the courses have three overlapping points. Um, but really, I would. My advice would be go through all of these websites with a fine tooth comb and try and write. Write your own person specifications. And for those who haven't applied for jobs and who aren't aware of what person specifications is they all really the skills, the values, the and the things, the experiences that they're looking for in a counted it. And although there's not a very clearly written one on a lot of the websites, you can kind of put one together through reading them all together. And so that's really I think is the take home point mess is pick up those key points, those buzzwords, those skills that they're looking for and highlight those in your application. Yeah, this Yeah, really good we'll move onto the next one then, which is? I've picked something a bit more out there. This time we're going to be a C honors of podiatry, uh, at things from the university. These London. Okay. Looking at their page again, it's a bit more crowded. A Web page know, affects universities. London. I don't dislike it. It's quite nice again. They have a very big overview section, which I think is brilliant. Brilliant place to get fishing for information. That, and fishing for ideas. And then where is the section again? They had one I liked is Well, just go through this topic here. Obviously. Things like modules you'll be studying. They might have good specifications in there that you could go and find some information on. Where is the one I wanted? It's not in there. Good job, sweetie. Shattered all these earlier. Yeah. Find the right one. Um, what? You'll know. Let me find the right that thing on. Excited screenshot it. Four hunt. It's in the what? You'll learn section. So yeah, this this, um, particular university don't seem to put up a huge amount about there about what they want from a personal statement what they want you to talk about. But they have got quite an in detail what you'll learn sections talking about what's in the course and again. I think this is probably most interesting bit I found on this website to look for the information to fish out. Um, because again it talks about things like core skills. It talks about things that you're gonna be expected to learn while you're on the course. So all of that's useful information to be able to go on, but of pre not pre load. But preempt what you're going to try and aimed for in your writing the person state having awareness off it that you don't need to necessarily, you know, here every single point on it, but kind of keep it in the background. You can kind of touch on a few few of those things. If if you feel as though that fits with your statement going, yeah, yeah, so, um and then the final one I just wanted to look at it was a bit different. This is the investor leads diagnostic radiography, and there's is a very detailed the website. It's not gotten any easy tabs to look around for, um, but again, they've got the white shoes, leads these little things about why they're good. And these things, I think you should really no, going into an interview if you have an interview for a course like this, Um, and then the other bit is 12. But I wanted, uh, they moved it, which is going from May twenties entry requirements. That's what I wanted. So they've got their course based in triquint that the, you know, the academic side of things going down a bit. We've got otherwise, you know, always useful. Those of us who don't want you on playing fire, um, a levels and the like and then things here, like short listing and interviews. They've got information about what, what to expect. And I can't find the exact page they had. They had a really, really good one for university of leads. I don't know what's gonna let me move it back to, but to my slides, everyone seems to have been updated their websites in the last week or so. Yeah, I guess it was because of this year, Like from last year to this year, in terms of applicants just very annoying. They keep it all the same. Um, let me find power. Point that one. So what? I want you. Can you see that? Yes. So over here he was the intercom in fees and applying section, which I just showed you with that very helpful interviews bit on the right here and a cancer of the joint. Unfortunately, there's they have a page which based just talked about important things that they want you to cover. Um, in interview in personal statement, just basic key things about individual effectively about successful candidates with this nice bullet point list here. So I don't know, Charlotte, if you want to go for it. So I suppose this kind of almost leads onto something we put in the next section. Ready, Which is, I suppose really thinking about Why? Why you doing this? Why do you want to pick this profession? Because at the end of the day, you're gonna be trying in this profession for probably 3 to 56, maybe is on and then doing the job at the end of it. What was drawn you to that? And I suppose also this might come up maybe that later in the interview stages. But why this university? Why, you know, why do you want to why you picked them? Um, so I think it's really important to kind of sit down and consider what? What? Your reasons for going into this profession and for putting all this time and money and efforts into this. What are the things you value in the profession? Um, what other things you're hoping for? Um, it's also important to kind of have to show your understanding that you have to show that you have a really good understanding of actually what the pressure looks like on the IV. Thoroughly researched it because, like I said earlier, your you're investing a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of blood, sweat and tears, um, into the into this profession. And they really want you to They want to know that you've made an informed choice, um, about flying blinds. Definitely. So things like having an awareness of current issues in your profession, um is really, really good thing to kind of highlight either in the interview or the application. And I suppose, how to know what the current issues affect your chosen profession talking to people, um, attending Siris, things like this. Um, also, there are some sections of social media. There are quite helpful in kind of highlighting, you know, kind of current issues with in professions. There are lots of and you know, people who are on Twitter or things that who talk openly about current issues affecting the profession and have to have an awareness of that is really important because it shows, even made an informed choice move on from looking at the actual university courses. Two are sort of advice about writing. I've managed to get some of the animations back, but there's not. Some of them have vanished. Unfortunately, no talking about getting in the ending. And this is the slide sort of that covers a bit of what Charlotte's just said, really. But this this this is sort of important things to think about before you've even actually started to type out a personal statement. There's things like making a list almost off relevant experiences or things. You've done things that you want to get mentioned a bit like when you plan that sale. So I I am a big of a big list maker myself and this might not work for everybody. But this is something that has really worked May in the numerous applications, two different things that have done throughout my life. But making a couple of lists, firstly, kind of what I was saying earlier. You know why this course why this profession? Why this university showing that you really kind of thought through and that you've got an awareness of the demands of the profession and that you know, you know what? You want to be a doctor or you know what, you want to be a nurse or whatever, um, lesser experiences that you've had that might have led to that because you can talk about that if you want. If you feel comfortable to, um, is there a certain person that inspired you to kind of want to follow this profession kind of explore that a little bit? I like to write it down a list because then when it comes to writing the application, I feel like I can take it off. I make sure I have included all of those points and into it. I also like to make a second list cleaning and against a lot of the lists. You don't have to do it in a list WalMart, but I think it's quite helpful because you you can you can take off all the things that you think are important on that even clued it. But I really can make a list or just think more generally about some of the relevant experiences you had. They don't have to be work related. Experience is they can be experiences of working teams or in projects that you've done at school or in May. You know, you might have done certain projects or, you know, you might have certain relevant extracurricular activities and, you know, write down what some of those relevant experiences, you know, write down some of these relevant experiences on day to kind of get prompts. You can look through the websites to look kind of have to think about what they're looking for. And finally, I think what I think is most important is what have you learned from this experience? You might have done tons of stuff, but if you didn't learn anything from it, then what's the point in doing it? Adam so really kind of think through what has this talk to you, Um, has your, you know, weak Want a ring in a care home, and you have You might have that experience, but why has that been important to your development? Is a person to really kind of think about what you learned from each experience? Make a point of including that in the statement. A really good example of that is there's a There's a personal Michael's is studying medicine, it kings and the only work experience the evidence was he used to deliver pizzas for delivery room. Other companies are available. They delivered pizzas for delivery room, and he put that in his personal statement. But he I lighted so well the different areas where I had learned skills from He highlighted about communication, the highlights of that decision making. He highlighted about dealing with difficult people on do you know, working with colleagues and all sorts of stuff on this and just the really interesting bits he highlighted. You know, that's just from delivering pizzas, but he he made it in. He highlighted such brilliant buzz words such a key areas that actually that became as relevant when reading it, it sounded as relevant as you know, months of shadowing or working in other fields because the skills he had learned so, doctor, that you've not got the right experience is it's about how you for a Z thumb, not what you've done. Yeah, I completely, but it's not. It's less important what is less importantly, experiences it got. It's more important what you've taken from those experiences somebody might have had, you know, loads of opportunities, for whatever reasons, to do shadowing or to to have some really York unique experience is. But if they didn't learn anything for Ms, then what's the point? Yeah, you're pretty, your friend Who's your, um, colleague who has delivered pizzas. It sounds like he was really able to kind of talk about in the standing skills. Yeah, but but reflect all the skills and the experiences that that taught him, and and that's why his that's well, he's on the course on. That's why he was successful in this application process because he was able to reflect and learn from the experience is he had had. So I think that's the case. May that's the key point. And from having read lots of people that Coffin's for the jobs and things, the learnings, other things that stand out. Yeah, a little suit left the last bit, which is, actually, once you stop the most difficult word on a bright light when you're writing anything of this is the first word you put down. You can write a lot of nonsense and then just go back and polish it up. Just start writing because actually, once you start getting into the flow that everything will become that easier and you'll make better work, having refined it later. But I also don't feel proud or precious four guarded about bits you've written. If someone tells you that something you've written doesn't suit it just except that take that out. It doesn't matter how much effort you put in. It doesn't matter how happy you were with it if it doesn't work, or if it sounds weird or if it's using up too many characters that could be used elsewhere. Ultimately, you know you're not making a piece of art. You're making an application on yet fulfilling the needs of the application. I think I'm more important than any sort of pride. Those first few words that you write down on paper are definitely the hardest and, you know, sitting down too, right? You know, looking at a blank screen or a blank piece of paper and having no idea where to start, that is really the most difficult bit. So I suppose things that I found helpful in the past, um, are supposed to kind of use the pumps that we've suggested, but also just to write, write out a stream of consciousness, just write, write down in whatever way, shape or form to write something down. Um, And those words there just for you, You know, you don't need to show them to other people. You don't need other people to read them because you could make something off it later on. But let's just getting something down on paper. I also find writing on my phone white helpful, like on the night stuff on your phone. Um, for some reason, that feels a little bit less intimidating. Just kind of type out, but yeah, just getting something down. You can like ready set. You could make something of it afterwards. You can turn it into the state, but you want it to be later. But you just need to get something out there to start off with. Yeah, so moving onto bit I put together. So the beginning and the end, the person who reads your personal statement is probably not directly involved in your course. They're probably an administrator of some sort, but they will read hundreds of these in a day. However, many people applying to your course their personal statements will be red. So if some courses, this could be thousands of people on there all going to be read all red by the same couple of people. And those people have to get through all of thumb. Honestly, if yours doesn't stand out a little bit, you're gonna have troubled, because if you send them to sleep in your first couple of sentences, they're really boring or they're just not very good. The person that you know it's not their fault, but their attention span isn't going to hold out. And if you will, someone they just sort of glance at, Well, you're not going to really be accepted. Um, you're opening paragraph, I think is probably the most important paragraph you're going to write in a person statement because your chance to actually get them to go year. I'm gonna pay attention to this one. I'm going to read this one thoroughly. You know, I'm gonna put some effort into this person's personal statement on Really? That's why it's so key after the opening paragraph. The only other paragraph that has to be, you know, pretty much spot on is your closing paragraph. This is the last bit they've read. It's what leaves a permanent. It's what leaves a memory off you and gets you to go from, you know, the maybe pile into the yes pile or from the know pile into the maybe pile. I just sort of helps you get further along. My wife's thinking about a little bit is a parachute analogy on this might be a bit cheesy and dad jokey that think parachute. If you're doing a parachute jump, there are two major league key elements that is getting out of the planes safely and not, you know, hitting the plane or, you know, missing and landing on the floor of the plane or anything getting out of the plane safely on landing safely. Because if you land badly, it's all gone wrong in between those two points. So long as you just about get everything you know, it's a long should Keep everything coherent. You keep your head above your feet and you open your parachute. Some point, things tend to go. Okay, so in the same way, it's long as you get this start as good as you can and you get the end as good as you can. And in between, you sort of keep it in the right direction. It's all make sense. You tend to do okay. With the very least, you're gonna land properly. Um, what's really important at the beginning, what makes it good beginning? So the impact you want to be snappy you want to have the idea of Yeah, I'm worth reading about. Look at me. You want that to come through really early on. But don't be cheesy if you If you put some sort of nonsense quote and this is literally first quote I found from Gandhi online when I typed in Gandhi quote um, if you put some notes, is quote or some random quote in there to begin with that you're just going in, the been they're not going to care. They've read that Washington Bother wasting the next, you know, 10 minutes of my life reading through this personal statement. No. Likewise. Don't be cocky. They're not looking for you to be a a finished article. They want a malleable student. Don't go in being like, Oh, I'm brilliant on. Wonderful. I've done a lot this extra training, all this extra work, and therefore I'm ready to already qualify as a paramedic or I'm ready to qualify as a nurse. No, that's not what they want. They want someone who's going to become a good student who's gonna become asset to the university and come out. The other end is a brilliant professional in whatever field, so don't overdo it. Don't sound too cocky. Don't lie. Don't make things up. Likewise, don't be a stereotype. I'll use a paramedic one here again, but I've wanted to be a paramedic since I was a little child. No, really. Everyone's gonna have that and I mean everyone. But enough people that it's just not worth having it really doesn't set you apart. It makes you sleeping material. It makes the reading. We want to go to have a nap. Um, the last minute so that story's so there are good stories and there are bad stories. If you put in a good story, then it could be really good things. Like, you know, this is one I literally made up off the top of my head It like two. AM when I was making the slides. But things like when I was six, I broke my leg. I was in a lot of pain. A paramedic maybe feel better. And so I want to do that. For others, this sort of quote is actually quite good, but not quite. This sort of story is quite good, but something long and waffle about you know how your dad was a cardiologists and therefore you're really into the heart and you've always been brought up around the heart. And therefore you want to be one yourself. Honestly, it just makes you sound Yeah, not great. So you got to figure out what is good and what is not generally something that's a little bit humble on does sound like something that genuinely could have inspired you is good. Anything that sort of goes and actually falls into that cocky category or just doesn't make any sense really isn't good. Um, something called It's for the beginning, This one. It's meant to be important bits for the end, but I've seen to have lost some of my graphics' so somewhere should say, important for the end. You're writing a personal statement. It's not an essay. You don't need to have a summary at the end. You don't need to highlight a little things you talked about. You don't need to conclude just a waste of time. Waste of effort. Don't let yourself down at the end. You know, stick the landing. You've got to stay strong and make sure that ending is good as it gets. Don't just sort of waffle out. Make sure it has got, you know, end. Um, likewise, your final sentence. It's got to be a strong as you can make it something like I'm looking forward to taking the next step in my career. Or, you know, I'm looking forward to a career as a nurse, and I'm looking forward to making the next step that way. They still think of really good if you finish off with, like I'm amazing and you're lucky to have may know just just awful But then also, there's other wrong ones. Things like, I think I would be a good candidate and like to take the chance to prove it. Interview. It's just banking. It's needy. It it's not going to go well. And then finally, things like, I hope you find me an adequate candidate. It's just a little It's hard. You've read it. You off. No. And again they will get you in the bin. So you're aiming for that strong positive ending, and it has to be an ending. You can just finish in the middle of a sentence or middle of a paragraph that doesn't make sense, have that good wrap up sentence that that makes sense. And then, lastly, is only bits on that you want Talk about Charlotte quickly before you move on to the last bit. Um, no, I don't think so. I think I suppose one thing I think it's more important is just to be you rather than trying to kind of, you know, taking a copy of things that other people have said, try, just try to be genuine to you because at the end of the day is is your statement? Yeah, that's a little, so yeah, don't Don't try and copy a generic one off the Internet or anything like that. It does have to be you. And the truth is the people reading these have read so many before. If you do try and copy another one, chances are someone else has a swell on there. Just going to see the same statement a few times ago. Well, I'm border this one now that's in the been beautifully. Don't really recognize that. It's even if they don't recognize that is a copy of one. They're just gonna have the same material over and over again. So you got try and make sure yours is Is you and a bit unique? Um, yeah, sudden. Finally, the last section I was to put in here It's basically because we had a few questions about this in the last series was How can we put Atria later to healthcare series into a personal statement? Because you guys are putting in the effort showing up to these sessions and we, you know, how do you make that fit? The first bit is going on. These are very generic points I made up again at like two AM one night, so they don't take these for bait. Um, don't just copy and paste these, but these are ideas to give you an eye, you know, point. So first idea would be proof of interest. So proving that you've got interest in that area of health care. So things like develop my interest. A nursing. I tend to the healthcare Siris giving me the charts to experience the lecture style teaching and explore different key topics in healthcare. It's just basically making it sound like you've actually looked into the course. You've developed an interest in that that particular field on, You know, this Just putting the seriousness name and having saying you've been to the Siris, could it helps reinforce that you've actually done that. Like was because I was interested. Healthcare career. I attended the heck healthcare Siris to look other areas or passionate. You know, you can read these. I don't need to read them out to you, but just using it as a as a means of reinforcing that you have done your background. Uh, you have been interested for a while. You've attended things to fuel that interest. To reinforce that interest and now you're just showing them that you're interested, the next one and this one. Now I've lost my lovely bit of graphic, which is very annoying. I believe this one was entitled that proof of research. So that's in that idea, basically proving that you've looked around other healthcare courses and you've identified the one that you're applying for because of you know what, you've Ah, because of the fact that you're attended things, to look at it so atrial again. Just be a nice, simple plug to reinforce. You've done your background research and looked into other fields again. Here's some senses. Think it's back to what we said earlier about making an informed decision about your career choice, showing that you've really thoroughly you're aware of what the demands of the Korea, why you wanted it on there, because then they're not looking for someone who's on a whim. Has gone, Yeah, study dietetic. So, yeah, study pyramids that they're looking for someone who spent a good period of time thinking about it. So showing that you've done your background research and look to other areas and you're still interested in that particular field is brilliant. You know it's it's really promoting of you and plugging in things like off cr Siris. Other cereals are available, other activities are available. But this is a good place where you can use our Siris to reinforce that you have done your research and the last one again, I've lost my thing that I think was put proof of knowledge, basically proving that you know things about the area things, you know, You know, you've gone out there and you've done things that aren't just your a levels or your your baccalaureate, all whatever it is you've done, you know, proving that you've done other things to expand what you know and develop into this area again. You could just use our name effectively is a plug to reinforce the fact that you've done some, um, done some research, done some background. You're looking around the background and that you've actually done some extra learning an extra development. Yeah, I think we were just a plug to reinforce that again. I'm not reading these out. These rules are generic ones. I made up. Obviously. You know, you've got to find the way of phrasing it that fits the rest of your statement. You can't just take one that's been written by someone else. Yeah, um, just suggestions for you, and that's the end. Charlotte, you any comments to finish on? I know. I think we've kind of covered most things already. I suppose. Yeah. I'll take home points are using their websites to try and create your own person sophistication and really kind of thinking about the experience you had, whatever they might be on, why they're relevant to the profession, things he taken from them. You're strong. Start ending. And, um, yeah, where the atra fits in until about. So I'm gonna put a feedback link, obviously, for those that anyone who wants to give any feedback or what's to certificate for this Obviously, I don't expect and many people to want to do the certificate for this session. Obviously, it's about personal statements. It's not necessarily one that you want to. Uh, you might want to put for your eyes, but if you want to, you're more than welcome to it. We obviously always appreciate your feedback. Um, other than that, I would just like to say it's well, good luck. Personal statements are in art, and I take a lot of practice to get good at, uh, and they are scary to begin with. But there's no reason you should be scared. You're talking about yourself in about why you want to do something. Ultimately, it's all the bones are in your court. You're you have the opportunity to whatever you want with it. You're you know, it's you talking about why you want to go and study next. Ones that, um, do your reading. Look at the universities. Look at what they say about their course, look at what they say about themselves and also get an idea of where you're aiming. So you've got a bit of a target hit. Remember to get your beginning and you're ending really, really strong. Is that the last bits? That person is going the first, but in the last bit, they're going to read, and they're the bits they're going to remember. And that's what's going to decide where you end up in terms of the yes, pile the know pile on the maybe pile. Um, and then, obviously, you know, use what you've done. You've been to a treat. Healthcare. Serious lectures use thumb. Stick them on there if you want to, whatever else you want to do as well. And good luck, you know, have fun with it. If anyone's got any questions, feel free to put them in the in the chair. Um, also, you don't have to have you got any? This would be a good place for any of you. Want to ask any particular questions about your personal statement because, you know we're here to discuss them. As I said in the email I sent out, we can't read everyone's personal statements for them, much as we'd love to just because generally to do a good job of reading someone's personal statement and giving feedback it takes a good hour or two. Um, and the number of people we have attending the sessions means that realistically, we're not going to be able to get through them all in the hours that we have available were all quite busy people. So we're sorry about that. The best people to have a read of your personal statement if you want someone to are your teachers, Um, likewise, people in the career you're looking at are quite good. So you know, if you're applying for nursing Find a nursing might know if your plan for medicine on a doctor you might know our medical student or some of this, but also remember that they should know you finding random ear's who have never met you before aren't necessarily gonna be able to tell you how to do a good job of your personal statement. People who have met you and know you will always give you better advice on these because they know your best assets. They know things that you have achieved. That's why teachers are really good resource for these people, who you get taught by regularly family friends. If they're in the right area, they're quite good. Relatives are quite good. Um, yes, so So I'm sorry. We can't look for everyone if anyone was interested. But, you know, if you've got questions pleased to ask them now, otherwise we will conclude there and asked, Actually really won't say it's pleased to attend the rest of our What's much Siris. We're going to some really good sessions coming up and again. The aim is for them to not necessarily. Our first serious also was quite a long two hours or two sessions The aim for these is sort of an hour to 90 minutes. A bit more sort of informal. Not so much, sort of heavily academic. That that sort of interesting topics worth discussing and and sort of covering. Uh huh. Of wise, If we have no questions, I'll leave it running for another 60 seconds, and then I'll end this year. The evening. That's great. Thank you, Freddy. Big. Thank you to Charlotte for her. Uh, help. See? Think so. It doesn't seem to be any questions, so I will end now. Thank you. Run for attending. Think you have a good evening, okay.