Competency questions

Question 1

Developed and maintained client relationship?

Answer 1

Key point of contact for demonstrator projects.
Facilitated a project introduction day where we did speed dating to build relationships.

Question 2

Lead you progressed?

Answer 2

BT Openreach.
Reached out to both parties, made intros, got the ball rolling on a new project.

Question 3

Articulated enterprise solutions / communicated EV?

Answer 3

Pitched the crossover of immersive tech and healthcare.
Resulted in new collaborative competition.

Question 4

Compelling pitch or demonstration?

Answer 4

Presentation to senior leaders after release of immersive economy report.
Result was additional funding to explore immersive tech outside of just entertainment.

Question 5

Demonstrated subject matter experience?

Answer 5

Learn over lunch.
Relationship building + idea generation.

Question 6

Collab with technical and non-technical stakeholders?

Answer 6

1. QRM for e-sports project, trying to simplify complex technical presentation.
   Resulted in everyone being on the same page.
2. Secondment working with both the dev team and marketing team.
   Having to adapt the language used between each teams.

Question 7

Influenced someone?

Answer 7

Designing new competition for funding - aim to get more private investment into the immersive sector.
Present ideas - used data from immersive report to persuade team to open up to all sectors.
Resulted in more private investors in immersive sector.

Question 8

Explained something complicated in easy-to-understand way?

Answer 8

Explaining ‘metaverse’ using an analogy.

Question 9

When have you gone above and beyond?

Answer 9

Helping companies with cash flow during covid.

Question 10

Showed initiative?

Answer 10

Off the back of funding inequality in immersive, I decided to do an analysis piece focusing on the various regions and answering the questions of why some areas (london) were over represented. And also ask what can we do about it?
Resulted in informing future strategy for investment.

Question 11

Strategic thinking

Answer 11

Investment accelerator - deciding on how to implement £2m funding to encourage private investment in the UK.
Figured out goal, what good looks like, then worked back from there to decide on the various steps needed, what the risks were, and how to achieve.
Resulted in increase in private investment within the sector.

Question 12

Creative solution to complex problem?

Answer 12

Using various pots of money and cash flow tweaking to help the projects to stay alive during covid.

Question 13

Showed leadership

Answer 13

Lead with actions.
Volunteered to host an all-staff conference for my grad cohort - no-one wanted to do it.