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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>ESL, Formal, General &amp; Business Letter Writing (English language)</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/FormalGeneralBusinessLetterWriting-EnglishLanguage/Forum5.htm</link><description>Formal Letter writing questions, how to write a cover letter, general, business, official, reference, character, leave, sponsorship, invitation, CV, writing to an English company, Learn how to start and end a letter in the English language.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3191.21962)</generator><item><title>Re:  Help with Cover Letter Letter pls</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/gvddx/post.htm#521710</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:24:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:521710</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/gvddx/post.htm#521710</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-521710.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Thank you very much Micawber!! You helped me a lot...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Andreson.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Help with Cover Letter Letter pls</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/zqnhl/post.htm#500100</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:17:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:500100</guid><dc:creator>Mister Micawber</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/zqnhl/post.htm#500100</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-500100.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I have underlined some problem areas.&amp;nbsp; One point-- usually, you should use simple past tense where you have used present perfect:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Motivation Letter:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The Graduate programme in Finance at Hampton College&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; is according &lt;/span&gt;my target to develop my skills&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; on&lt;/span&gt; the financial field for &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a knowledge improvement&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a career progression on&lt;/span&gt; the financial industry. &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Regarding&lt;/span&gt; the excellent reputation of Hampton College &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in specific&lt;/span&gt;, the Department of Economics, and its international recognized &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;researches&lt;/span&gt;, I have chosen Hampton &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;to study&lt;/span&gt;. Furthermore, I also plan to do the Master in Finance at Hampton, after finishing the graduate finance program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I have &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;a work&lt;/span&gt; experience in La Caja, one of the biggest&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; spanishes bank&lt;/span&gt; in assets, working &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; an external commission auditing&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; loans&lt;/span&gt; contracts and reporting directly&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; for &lt;/span&gt;the Spanish Central Bank and the National Treasury. After that, I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;have finished&lt;/span&gt; my degree and I came to London to improve my English skills when I&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; have started&lt;/span&gt; to work in&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; a International Company of Fundsâ Transfers&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;liasing&lt;/span&gt; with more than 240 banks around the world, processing and confirming multi FX settlements, treasury, daily &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;reconcialitions&lt;/span&gt; and cheque risk &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;administrations. Starting&lt;/span&gt; as sales executive and finishing as a manager in the central branch of the company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Aside my&lt;/span&gt; working experience, I also have knowledge &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;in stock&lt;/span&gt; market, &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;being a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; keen awareness &lt;/span&gt;of world events, current &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;affair &lt;/span&gt;and financial markets. My interest in those subjects&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; have started&lt;/span&gt; after I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;made &lt;/span&gt;a course&lt;strike&gt;, during my degree,&lt;/strike&gt; in financial markets and technical chart analysis, and I have started to invest on the Madrid Stock Exchange using an online stockbroker platform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;I &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;have studied&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;the &lt;/span&gt;elementary and high school in a top school in Madrid, Montfort School, which allowed me to &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;enter in&lt;/span&gt; a top &lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;5&lt;/span&gt; university in Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;. Where I have studied &lt;/span&gt;Business Administration&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;, what&lt;/span&gt; the equivalent in UK would be a Bachelor Hons Degree in Science in Business Administration&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;. Which includes, &lt;/span&gt;statistics, finance, accounting, marketing, economics, administration, human resource and strategy planning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Thus, I am very motivated&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt; in improve&lt;/span&gt; my mathematical skills and my technical knowledge in finance with Hampton College.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Your &lt;/span&gt;sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Anderson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Help with Cover Letter Letter pls</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/zqkhk/post.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:36:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:499232</guid><dc:creator>ankdres</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CoverLetterLetter/zqkhk/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments5-499232.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Can anyone help me please with this letter? Grammar and concordance for example?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Motivation Letter:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The
Graduate programme in Finance at Hampton
 College is according my
target to develop my skills on the financial field for a knowledge improvement
and a career progression on the financial industry. Regarding the excellent
reputation of Hampton College in specific, the Department of Economics, and
its international recognized researches, I have chosen Hampton to study. Furthermore, I also plan to
do the Master in Finance at Hampton,
after finishing the graduate finance program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;I have a
work experience in La Caja, one of the biggest spanishes bank in assets,
working in an external commission auditing loans contracts and reporting
directly for the Spanish Central Bank and the National Treasury. After that, I
have finished my degree and I came to London
to improve my English skills when I have started to work in a International
Company of Fundsâ Transfers, liasing with more than 240 banks around the world,
processing and confirming multi FX settlements, treasury, daily reconcialitions
and cheque risk administrations. Starting as sales executive and finishing as a
manager in the central branch of the company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Aside my
working experience, I also have knowledge in stock market, being a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt; keen awareness of world events, current affair and
financial markets. My interest in those subjects have started after I made a
course, during my degree, in financial markets and technical chart analysis, and
I have started to invest on the Madrid Stock Exchange using an online
stockbroker platform.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;I have studied the elementary and
high school in a top school in Madrid, Montfort School,
which allowed me to enter in a top 5 university in Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Where I have studied Business Administration, what the equivalent in UK would be a Bachelor
Hons Degree in Science in Business Administration. Which includes, statistics,
finance, accounting, marketing, economics, administration, human resource and
strategy planning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;Thus, I am very motivated in
improve my mathematical skills and my technical knowledge in finance with Hampton College.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Your sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;span&gt;Anderson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>