Chloe Tindale

"I think that quite a few of the aspects of the personality types are a good match. I have always enjoyed taking a leadership role in the work that I do, so the 'Coach' and 'Manager' parts make sense to me. I do aspire to be a manager in the future of a team, so I hope to keep developing the skills listed with this personality type so that I can get to that point. Some of the qualities that I think I am already good at, and show in my work are my 'motivation', 'team orientation', and my ability to organise. However, I can identify that I would like to improve my open-minded attitude for example and my compassion, before I would take the next step to being a manager. The Coach personality links in with the manager one, and is probably the best match to what I see myself as right now. I love being a problem solver, understanding problems and finding solutions and working with a wide range of people. I hope that I can continue with these qualities as I progress in my career.The more surprising match for my personality for me, was the 'Quality Controller' profile. Although, after reading the qualities in the section, it makes sense that to do my current role of leading product development, I use many of these skills without realising. For example, to create new products, you have to be curious and challenge the way that things have always been done, in order to create new and better ideas. However, you also have to manage risk and understand the detail of work too, otherwise the product may fail.I will try to understand more about how I can use and develop these qualities to my advantage in my current role now. I will also try to identify some qualities that I may be lacking due to my preferences and tendancies."

"The idea of my role is to make sure that progress is made in developing new ideas from the initial creation, through to launch as a saleable product. As a result of this work, the team can then create new products and offerings that the customer really gets value out of. This process is not necessarily a quick process; prototypes are made, and beta sites are set-up for testing purposes before the full launch can be done. There are always tweaks and improvements that can be made along the way too. Once you have created something that is ready for the customers though, it is a really good feeling after all of that hard work.I really enjoy working with other people so I think my favourite part of this role is creating the new ideas as a team initially. It is then really rewarding to work out how to 'solve the problem' and get these initial ideas to a point where they work in real life and are ready to sell. I particularly enjoy leading this whole process, and being given the trust and responsibility to co-ordinate the necessary work to achieve the end result!"

"To become a graduate engineer at Air Products, I took the university route. After GCSEs, I chose A Levels based on my favourite subjects (knocking out the ones I liked the least first). This ended up being mostly sciences and maths, which I had heard could lead to a variety of great jobs in the future, so I was happy. However, throughout this education process, I never knew where exactly I wanted to end up. I just took one step at a time and worked out what I did and did not like along the way. I was inspired by my parents and teachers to work as hard as I could, so I could achieve whatever I wanted.During A Levels though, I had doubts about what I wanted to study at university and had never heard of Engineering! I went to lots of university open days and read a lot of the course breakdowns for different subjects ranging from life sciences, to maths, and across all kinds of engineering. Only through doing this was I able to narrow my choice to Chemical Engineering. It seemed to have the best mix of maths, physics, and chemistry for me, and it had some great job prospects at the end too.During university I did a summer placement at an oil and gas company. This was great as I realised what the ‘real world’ of engineering looked like outside of the lectures. I learnt so much and would encourage anyone to do placements if they can. However, it also taught me what aspects I didn’t enjoy as much about the engineering, so I was able to make decisions in the future about what role suited me best.When I started my graduate programme after university, I then tried out commercial engineering. This was very different to what I thought I wanted to do, and initially I wasn’t sure if I wanted to try it. However, it was great. It showed me a completely different side of engineering to what I had seen before, and it actually suited me better. I have a few really great role models in the company, and I am really inspired by them to work hard and grow to learn more.\""

"In my spare time I like to do a variety of things - I don’t like to be bored! My main hobbies are playing netball and running, and I am a member of clubs for these sports and play on the weekend. I really enjoy the competitive netball matches on a Saturday morning, and the social aspects of the running club on a weekday lunchtime twice a week. Sometimes, getting to training takes a lot of willpower, but I never regret turning up once I get there. I think these two activities are also great for de-stressing from work as you can forget about it as soon as you arrive and started running around.I also enjoy playing other sports and when I first started my graduate role, I joined the lunchtime touch rugby team. This was mostly boys/men, but there were a few girls too who weren’t afraid to ‘get stuck in’. I wasn’t particularly good at touch rugby, but it was a really fun lunch break activity. Apart from sport, I really enjoy exploring new places. I moved to London for my new job after university and love exploring the local area. I used to find living in a big city a bit daunting, but now I love the freedom and interesting new things to see all the time. I would love to travel the world a bit more in the future and explore new cultures and areas – but I need to save up some money first!I used to find Chemistry scary and I didn’t enjoy the practical lessons at school. I think this was because in year 8, I once made a big mistake that broke some expensive equipment. It meant that the whole class was banned from doing experiments for the rest of term so I wasn't very popular! Who would have known that I would end up as a Chemical Engineer after that?! I learnt that what scared me, just needed some extra time and attention, and then I could do it!"

"In my day-to-day role I do a mixture of project management, technical engineering and commercial work. The idea is to enable product development of new ideas and offerings for customers.As part of this, I must collaborate with, and lead a team to generate ideas; delegate individual tasks; track progress and future plans; and carry out analysis. This involves a lot of organisation, planning and working as a team. It sometimes means that I spend quite a lot of time writing emails and having meetings with other people. I enjoy this as I like coming up with ideas together. After these meetings, I then have to make decisions and try to use other people's input to create new ideas for the team and a plan for how to do it. There are also times though where I block out some time in my calendar to look at the data without distractions.To create successful products, I also need to understand the target market and the commercial factors such as price, cost, marketing, and have a plan for how to sell what we create! This means that I often go to customer's sites as well as being in the office. I am involved in liaising with customers, undertaking research to find out what is important to them. I combine this information with market research to determine a commercial strategy. I don't do any of this work alone though, there are many people who support me and give me the guidance and training I need. There are also experts in each of the areas who do the 'bulk' of the workload - my main role is to co-ordinate all of that expertise."

"- A-Levels - Chemical Engineering MEng (Newcastle University)- 10 Week Summer Placement (Centrica Storage)"