I have a confession to make. During a recent interview with a remote job agency, I was asked a question that stopped me completely in my tracks:
“What makes you stand out from the crowd? What is your superpower?”
I hesitated. Then I said something like: “I am adaptable and organised.”
Even as the words left my mouth, I knew. That didn’t make me stand out. That’s what everyone says.
The job market right now is, let’s be honest, relentless. Hundreds of applicants for every role. Automated screening. Ghost responses. It can feel like shouting into the void. And yet, the question followed me home that day, all the way to my next morning of scrolling job boards:
How do I position myself in this hectic, crowded market?
I know I am organised. I know I am solution-oriented. I show up with an “all hands on deck” attitude — ready to tackle whatever comes my way. These are real qualities. But they are table stakes, not differentiators.
So I sat with that question a little longer. And then, out of the blue, my phone buzzed.
A close friend texted me in a panic. He was stuck in Pakistan, and due to the escalating conflict involving Iran, airspace closures were spreading fast. He had no idea how to get home to Europe.
I didn’t overthink it. I immediately checked which airspaces had closed, which airlines were still operating routes in and out of the country, and cross-referenced everything with current flight availability. Within less than an hour, we had found viable return tickets and a route back to safety.
He made it home.
And sitting there afterwards, I thought: that is what I do. I find solutions. I clear the path. I remove the obstacles so that the people around me can move forward.
My Superpower: I AM A FACILITATOR
A facilitator is not the loudest person in the room. They are not the one collecting all the credit. They are the one making sure everyone else can do their best work. They are the connector, the “unlocker”, the calm problem-solver in a storm.
And I recognise myself in that description completely. Whether it’s coordinating a complex event with dozens of moving parts, guiding a team through a sprint, or helping a stranded friend find a flight home, I am always the person who steps in, assesses the situation, and finds the way through.
This is also precisely why I chose Scrum and worked to earn my PSM I (Professional Scrum Master) certification. The Scrum Master role is built around facilitation at its core: removing impediments, creating space for the team, and coaching rather than commanding. It is not about having all the answers. It is about helping the team find them.
I am everyone’s go-to person. The one you call when something is blocked. The one who stays cool, thinks clearly, and gets things moving again.
Looking back across almost 15 years of work in events, customer relations, and project coordination, I can now see the thread that runs through all of it. Every role I’ve held has asked me to hold space for others, to manage competing needs, to turn complexity into clarity.
Events taught me how to work under pressure, with tight budgets, demanding stakeholders, and zero room for failure. Project coordination taught me to think systemically, to track dependencies, and to communicate across teams. Agile and Scrum gave me the language and structure to describe what I had always been doing intuitively.
I had the instinct. Now I have the framework.
The job market is asking all of us to answer a harder question than “What is your experience?” It is asking: What do you bring that no one else does?
The answer is rarely found in your CV. It’s found in the moments when someone needed help and you just... knew what to do. In the instincts you’ve developed, the patterns you notice, the calm you bring when others are overwhelmed.
Mine is removing roadblocks. Finding the way through.
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With almost 15 years of experience in events, customer relations, and project coordination, I’ve built my career around bringing ideas to life.
