As a student-run program run for the students, I believe that the aims of Yellow

Shirts on Orientation Week are to welcome new students to UNSW. Yellow Shirts
is a program whose goals are orientated in assisting new students with
navigating campus, connecting them with events and providing information to
make their uni experience enjoyable and fun, rather than terrifying. Orientation
Week is also aimed to help these new students understand just what UNSW is
like as a student community, hopefully encouraging them to become apart to be
actively seek to be of campus life. The volunteers themselves, the O-Week
program is aimed to grow the skills of the contributing university students in
regards to their communication and teamwork/leadership skills, conflict
management and other people and work orientated skills.
I want to be a Yellow Shirt because I want to help others the same way Yellow
Shirts helped me as a terrified first year. I remember when I first encountered the
main walkway, continuously walking back and forth trying to find Matthews
Theatre. It was a Yellow Shirt who accompanied me all the way up Basser Steps
to guide me there. It is that willingness to help individuals (to even go out of
their way to guide someone up Basser Steps) that reminds me of the good work
Yellow Shirts do. Yellow Shirts also assisted with informing me about societies,
events, and just general information that many lost students such as myself
needed to settle in. If anything, I want to be a Yellow Shirt to meet new people
and making friends with people who share the same interest in helping the way
Yellow Shirts do.
I think that a good team member knows what their purpose is, and are able to
coordinate with their leaders and respective members to deal with delegated
tasks. This means that they should be respectful of one another, dedicated and
responsible to what they need to do, but most importantly, they are willingly to
acknowledge what they do and do not know, and learn and improve accordingly.
The most recent times which I have displayed such characteristics are my
experiences with the campus communities and societies, such as Med Revue,
Law Revue and FABSoc, which required me to adapt and learn new things when
working with individuals of differing years of experience and backgrounds.
My experiences working to establish World Vision 40 famine in my high school is
an example of a time in which I encountered conflict in our course of action.
Essentially, while managing several portfolios (Marketing, Design, Treasury, etc.),
there were discrepancies about the direction some portfolios were heading.
There was miscommunication between members, which was partly my fault. We
resolved this issue by every member agreeing upon a discussed course of action
in trying to establish 40 hour famine in my high school. I learnt that, while I coran the 'World Vision Society', it did not necessarily mean that my ideas were the
most practical. This experience also showed me that communication is a huge
necessity, particularly when working with such a large number of diverse people
with different tasks and understandings. Moreover, I learnt that by
communicating properly and strengthening the connection between members
within a team, one can attain a better or easier way to complete a task.