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Re: Should I mention example production in my motivation letter?

Grammar Geek — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:51:21 GMT

Is this a cover letter (I would like to apply for...) or a motivation letter (The reason I want to be a developer is...)?

Certainly in whatever letter you develop, you should mention the movie.

You can follow whichever format you want for a formal letter.

Re: PhD Cover Letter ! Need help to correct it

Kathrin — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:21:41 GMT

Hello all,

First of all, i would like to thank everyone who have good posts on this forum. It helps me a lot when I learn English.
I am now writting a PhD. Cover Letter. I would highly appreciate any help to improve it.
Please help! I am not good at writting .

Thank you in advance.
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Dear Sir or Madam,

On recommendation of Prof. Dr. ***, University of ***, I am writing to you in order to apply for ~~the PhDt~~the PhD-program you are offering. ~~Student position at ***. I have enclosed a completed resume for your review.~~

My name is Quan Nguyen, a fresh graduate from University of *** [Please don't introduce yourselve in a formal letter, it is very unprofessional. Besides, your resume is enclosed.] In March 2007, I ~~hold~~ got the Master degree in Communication and Media Engineering. During my last academic year, I had a chance to do an my internship and master thesis in the *** company. There I gained profound ~~developed not only my~~ knowledges in web development ~~but also real~~ as well as working experiences in an international environment. My thesis is related to the issues in Business Intelligent and Web 2.0. I obtained skills in J2EE programming and advanced web technologies for Enterprise Applications including Jboss, Portal/Portlet, Ajax, Web services,etc.. ~~It was a great experience for me, which~~ has focused my interests on the topic of Web 2.0 technologies.

After my graduation, I worked as a PHP developer for ***, an IT and business consulting company. I gained further experiences in web programming, project management and team-working.

As well as my good understanding of academic principles, I am a very motivated, hardworking and effective individual. Throughout my career, I obtained a good communication and organizational skills. It makes me confident that I will be suitable for your research team.

For my future career, I see this PhD program as the way to broaden my knowledges in designing and implementing Enterprise Distributed Applications, as well as how to ~~apply~~ ~~these applications~~ use them in business, ~~which~~ in the case that SAP is now the best solution. ~~This~~ Your program ~~proposes~~ covers areas of research that match my interests, such as Business Process Management and Semantic Web Technologies. ~~I have no doubt in mind that I have enough knowledges, skills and competence to pursue the PhD program in your research center.~~

I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you to discuss how I may be suitable for this position. I am now on vacation in Vietnam, but can be reached at any time via email or telephone at number +***.[Your contact data should be in the resume and every person in the business wourld know how to reach an other person. If your contact data are not on the resume, you should put it there and don't write about it. Again, it looks very unprofessional, sorry, if I am too hard by trying to help]

Thank you very much for your time an ~~your~~ consideration. My resume is enclosed. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Quan Nguyen

Re: Letter of Motivation for Eventmanagement

Kathrin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:28:56 GMT

Hi,

gosh, I have seen many samples of covering letter/cover letter/letter of motivation in German and English and not a single one included a quote, which means it is very risky to put something like that in a formal letter and a hard test for the HR department. In my opinion it is a too creative step but this is only my opinion. There are other ways to show who you are.

Maybe you should look for samples of formal letter on the net, then pick everything you like and prepare your letter. My covering letters are full with phrases, which I like, taken from ads/samples etc. I have my mini database with such phrases for every situation If I try to invent something completely new, usually it isn't so good

Best wishes!

Re: Kindly chk my cover letter & correct it. Thks for your time & considera

Shanawaz Mohammed — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:13:54 GMT

Dear Kathrin and Doll

Thank you very much for your valuable suggestions for my cover letter. I have reframed this cover letter as a formal letter than the previous one. Kindly check and suggest me if I am wrong.
Thank you so much!

Cover Letter

Dear SirlMadam

With reference to the advertisement on website address for the position of the topic of interest/ advertisement topic, I am writing in a hope that you might be able to offer me a PhD studentship.

A strong theoretical knowledge from my present job as Research Associate in Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd., and practical experience that I gained from National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, NIMHANS, Bangalore will help me pursue this doctorate degree in your laboratory.

I would welcome the unique opportunity to work as part of your research group, to benefit from your extensive research on Clinical Neurophysiology, and to put my training, experience, creativity and enthusiasm into practice to unravel the mysteries of human's brain function.

Please review my enclosed CV for other courses and information. I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely

Re: LETTER OF MOTIVATION

Kathrin — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:32:37 GMT

1) My name is X.X. This is a very unusual opening line and not even necessary one. Your name is known from the CV as well as the from the address. There is no need to introduce itself in a formal letter. My name is .. is for writing to potential friends, strongly informal. I would suggest to take it back, it could lead to a tradegy:_)

2) At the moment I'm going... The tense is not correct because the action started in the past and is still going. At the moment you are sitting in front of your computer:-)

Proposal: Recently I have been attending a private school in M., in the ... grade.

3) My principal courses are geography and german, My major subjects are geography and German (German with a capital letter)

4) I was born. See 1). The letter should provide your motivation. I doubt if your birthday is connected to your motivation. If so explain why:-) Cut the whole sentense.

OK, there is no point to go on. This isn't a motivation letter, more a mix between CV and cover letter. If possible, please forget it and write it complettely new after research about the structure of a formal cover letter. I would try to correct the obvious mistake as far as I can. It would be better:-)

Re: How to write a letter of motivation or cover letter!

ilyasn — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:40:21 GMT

2 How to write a motivation letter?!

Writing the motivation letter is an important step in the application procedure - it is the basis on which the organising groups select their participants! There's no are perfect templates or instructions on how to write your motivation letter for a BEST courses - every student is unique, and this should be reflected in this letter! However, there are some general tips and hints that might be useful, and might help you in getting accepted more easily!
First of all - when writing a motivation letter, do keep in mind that it is going to be read by students, just like you. They get many applications from which they have to choose - and the only tool they have to choose is the student's motivation letters. It might be that the organisers have to read a few hundred motivation letters, so to attract their attention, try to be creative and funny.

So do not write a formal letter, do not start it with "Dear Madam or Sir", and importantly, do not make it look like a CV - do not state all the schools you visited, all the jobs you did during your life, etc.. write an interesting letter in prose style!

In general, your motivation letter should focus on the following parts:
â¢ Something about yourself - what you study, what you do in your life , what are your hobbies, sports you do, maybe what languages you speak...

BEST courses are always a lot of fun, so the organisers should know that you are a funny person!
â¢ Why you want to go to abroad, and why do you want to go to a BEST summer/winter/spring course!

It is important for the organisers to have internationally minded, open persons - the course does not consist only of the academic program!

â¢ Why you want to go to especially THIS event you're applying for: why is the topic attractive, why might the knowledge you can gain there help you (in your studies, in your future carreer...) - the event does neither consist of only the social part, so let the organisers know that you are interested in the course as well!!!

â¢ Sometimes, it is needed to tell the organisers that you have a sufficient knowledge of the topic - so let them know that and how you do! To find out what is expected - read the course information on the webpages carefully, as probably there are some hints telling you which kind of participant are expected to apply!

â¢ Be careful, and send the appropriate letter to the appropriate place (don't mix them if you apply to more than one course!)

â¢ Don't let the letter be too short or too long â One, or half of an A4 page, is just enough to get the organisers to notice you. If the letter is too long, they might not want to read it, but if it's too short, they will think that you are not interested enough in the course!
â¢ Of course, the letter has to be written in English

These are just some general hints - take the ones you want, leave the ones you don't like, but in any case, add your own imagination and style, be creative, and you'll have your motivation letter to go on a BEST course!

Letter classification

ahava_yin — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:19:24 GMT

Hi, when it comes to the topic of formal letter writing, I could think of businiss letter, recommendation letter, cover letter, and maybe letter to the officials. The question here is if I want to give them a quite general classification, businiss letter should be one big group, how should I classify the others? Is there some commonly accepted way to classify letters? Thank you!