http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aLetter+of+motivation+tag%3aDialects&tag=Letter+of+motivation,Dialects&orTags=0Search results for 'tag:Letter of motivation tag:Dialects' matching tags 'Letter of motivation' and 'Dialects'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3172.32282)http://www.englishforums.com/English/SomeoneLook/2/xmzj/Post.htm#72344Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:42:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:72344anon1Cookey, <br /> <br /> <br />Should i write 'Letter of motivation' on top in bold letters and maybe underlined? <br /> <br />No. <br /> <br /> <br />Do i sign the letter personally later? If should i leave some spac between Yours respectfully and my name? <br /> <br />Yes, sign it personally, so leave appropriate space. <br /> <br />And where do i insert the date (and town)? - I would place it at the end on the right side of the page. <br /> <br />Don’t worry about it for now. We’ll take of the details last. <br /> <br />Is the font size 11 or 10 ok (font- arial) <br /> <br />12 font size is appropriate and use a serif font, such as Times New Roman. <br /> <br /> <br /><hr> <br /> <br />Your writing is still much too cluttered. You are trying to sound fancy but it reads a bit pretentious. <br /> <br />You want to eliminate “fluff” and just communicate information. <br /> <br />I think I am going to have to provide a bit of a “kick-start” to your letter. <br /> <br />Likes <br />-foreign countries and cultures <br /> <br />Strengths <br />-maths and sciences <br />-computer technology <br />-people, natural leader, organizer <br />-languages (English, German, Ilocano (Phillippine dialect), Spanish <br />-responsible <br />-accurate <br />-leader <br />-creative <br /> <br />Experiences <br />-travels <br />-merchandise center <br />-volunteer swim coach <br />-Internet company <br /> <br />I had to pick through your letter to find this stuff. <br /> <br />What you need to do is.... <br /> <br />1) Determine your strengths <br />2) Think of experiences that examplify your strengths <br />3) Write about them <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dear Sir or Madam, [colon if in North America] <br /> <br />I am applying to the International Business programme. [program, if in NA] <br /> <br />Having graduating with a German diploma ‘Abitur’ in the summer of 2004, I want to continue my education. I am interested in studying international business because that field of study fits with my natural skills, aptitudes, and, most importantly, desire. <br /> <br /><EM>[Okay, so now you are set up to begin discussing YOU. You don’t need to tell them what international business is. Nor do you need to tell them about efficient working styles and other blather. Instead, relate your strengths to business. <br /> <br />The previous stuff that I have written might be changed. But I wanted to give you something to work with for now. <br /> <br />You also have to be careful in your writing. For example, “Having an affinity to logical thinking, mathematics and physics were my favourite subjects at the beginning of high school, besides English (and is English logical?).” Doesn’t that seem wordy and pretentious to you? To me, I would say write, “Math and physics were my favorite subjects because they are very logical.” But having said that, here’s the rub. Business isn’t always logical. In fact, business is often subtle. So if you like “logical” and “linear,” then why are you not studying sciences? You’ve got lots of stuff to work with, so your challenge now is to craft a letter that relates your “natural skills, aptitudes, and most importantly, desire” to a career in business. You can do that by discussing your prior experiences.]</EM> <br /> <br /> <br />I completed Secondary School with the German diploma ‘Abitur’ in the summer of 2004 and now want to continue my education to obtain a Bachelor of Science in International Business. Thereafter, I would like to use the acquired knowledge and skills to continue in a master’s programme, aiming to be well prepared to enter the business world. It is my ambition to enrich an internationally operating company or to start as an independent entrepreneur bringing in new ideas and an efficient working style. <br />The progress of globalisation and the development of global information networks make the possibility of studying international business attractive to me. And according to my great interest in foreign countries and their cultures, I believe that this is the right path for my future. It gives me the potentiality to bring in my skills in solving problems, organizing, communicating and leading. <br /> <br />Having an affinity to logical thinking, mathematics and physics were my favourite subjects at the beginning of high school, besides English. Finding clear answers to given problems, satisfied me. Therefore I chose informatics as an elective course. I enjoyed working with the computer and started using it as main equipment to present projects and as communicational medium. Today, I easily learn how to work with new programmes and use the internet for any kind of research and to keep in touch with people. <br /> <br />Due to the importance of friends in my life and through my sense of checking things from different perspectives, I often was seen as the confidant in a group. I also adopted this role during my school life and was chosen as class representative several years in a line. I liked keeping a group together, which led to my interest in organizing events, as for example a trip to six-flags (an amusement park in the Netherlands) with a group of twenty-five people. <br /> <br />My affection to travelling and exploring new cultures was evoked through my Philippine background and the wanderlust of my parents. Visiting the Philippines and travelling to several countries to which my relatives have emigrated to, taught me respect and how to deal with cultural differences. <br />My first independent journey to relatives in Canada, several school exchanges and youth trips to other countries motivated me to plan and carry out my first own voyage across the USA last summer. It was exciting and challenging as I paid and planed the whole trip on my own, but everything worked out well. While exploring new places and socializing with new people I had a great summer. When my friends took me along to their schools, my curiosity about studying abroad was aroused. <br /> <br />The interest in languages has been there since I have started to talk, as I have been raised trilingually: English, German (in which I am fluent) and Ilocano (Philippine dialect).This interest increased even more during high school. I always enjoyed speaking English with cousins and friends and later English was my favourite subject besides maths, which explains why I chose these subjects as my A-level courses, in senior classes. Knowing that Latin is the foundation of most languages I picked it as my second foreign language. Furthermore, did I participate in an unsolicited Spanish course after regular class and added French in an evening school for two semesters. Starting in the mid of February I will brush up my Spanish knowledge in an intensive Spanish course. When I started my occupation as an assistant in a department of international import, I came up with a new aim and interest in learning Chinese or Japanese. This idea was aroused through my contact to our suppliers and partners from all over the world and especially from Asia. <br /> <br />Besides my above mentioned current employment at the merchandise centre of the international company OBI (Germany’s leading company of building centres), I have also gained working experiences in other areas. As a member of the German life saver association, I voluntarily coach younger swimmers, accompany youth trips of the club and work as an assistant life guard during the summer. Additionally, I used to serve in a hotel-restaurant on weekends and holidays to earn some extra money. I also experienced work in an online advertising company during my internship and had a job in a department of quality control. All these different employments taught me responsibility, how work within guidelines, to be accurate, how to motivate others and how to balance my time and priorities. <br />But the employment which influenced me most and which taught me mobility, co-operation and independence was my experience with the organization CA. I always had the aim to go abroad for a longer period after high school. So after graduating last year I went to a summer camp in Monticello, in New York State, and worked as a life guard, swimming coach and counsellor. <br />Living together with children for eight weeks and collaborating with counsellors from all over the world from various social and ethnic backgrounds, I had to face an exciting new challenge. At the end of camp though and after my above mentioned travelling session across America, I could look back on four months full of new experiences, memories and friends from all over the world. Working with children of the ages seven to seventeen, twenty-four hours almost seven days a week surely nurtured my creative side, as I always had to find a new way of entertaining them. As being a role model I also improved my skills in leading a crowd, mediating and solving problems. The most important thing I learned though was to be flexible and open towards new people and for ways of handling new situations. <br /> <br />Due to the international orientation of the UM I believe that the offered International business programme is totally suitable for me. It combines my passion for global communication, international mobility and a multicultural environment, as well as my impulse of organizing and leading projects in a professional way. Through my experiences in several jobs, my temporary employment abroad and my continuous voluntary work I learned the values of commitment, teamwork and of independence. These values represent the most important requirements to study on the principles of Problem Based Learning (PBL) and make me accomplish the expectations of the educational system, taught at the UM. <br /> <br />I am confident that with my strong motivation, my personality, my international and significant practical experiences and with the International Business programme on top, I will have a solid foundation for a successful and fulfilling career, in which I plan to weld relationships across cultures and ensure that intercultural communication takes place effectively. <br /> <br />Enclosed you will find all required documents for the International Business programme. Thank you for taking the time to consider my application. I look forward to getting a positive response and to having a great time in an outstanding educational program at the UM. <br /> <br />Yours respectfully, <br />XXX <br />http://www.englishforums.com/English/SomeoneLook/xkzg/post.htmWed, 02 Feb 2005 22:01:39 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:71763cookeyI have finished my letter of motivation for an International Business Program application. But as i have never written one before i am not sure if i did it the right way. Would someone please have a look at it and give me some advices to improve it? <br />Many thanks in advance. <br />Cookey <br /> <br />Dear ladies and gentlemen, <br /> <br />With this letter, I would like to explain my motivation for studying International Business in general and why I chose the UM: <br /> <br />After completing secondary School with the German diploma ‘Abitur’ in the summer of 2004, I would like to continue my education at a higher institution, to obtain a Bachelor of Science in International Business. In particular, I am interested in learning more about the structure and organization of a company, economical processes (in general), global economic coherences and communications, new cultures and languages. I also want do develop my methodical abilities and soft skills. Thereafter I want to use the acquired knowledge to continue in a masters program of business, aiming to be well prepared to enter the business world. It is my ambition to enrich an international operating company or to start as an independent entrepreneur, bringing in new ideas and an efficient working style. <br /> <br />Looking at my career aspirations as a child, one would think they were totally contradicting. I was torn between the wishes to become an architect, bank clerk, lawyer and a “stewardess”, or more proper flight attendant. At first sight these jobs have nothing in common, but looking at the main characteristics of each profession a slight direction towards the essential attributes of an international business graduate is shown. <br />An Architect is creative, but also has to be accurate. The Bank clerk in my eyes was that business person in a suit who juggles with numbers and who is known as a logical thinker. The lawyer represents the interest in working within guidelines and the attitude to vouch for something, as well as the motivation to convince people of ones view. The flight attendant is the profession, which is most contrary to the others. Flexibility and mobility are her main attributes, as she is always on the way and has to be ready to deal with all kind of people of different backgrounds. She has to handle the most various and unexpected situations and always has to keep calm and friendly, while collaborating with others and leading a (passenger) crowd. <br />All these characteristics of the professions of my early admiration caught my attention as a child and started to develop to my own interests and skills while growing up. <br /> <br />In school I evolved an affinity to subjects in which logical thinking was asked. This explains why mathematic and physics were my favourite subjects, when I was younger. I liked to affiliate, calculate and to construct. Finding clear answers, to given problems, satisfied me. Therefore I chose informatics as an elective course. I enjoyed working with the computer and more often started to use it as main equipment to present projects and as communicational medium to interact with juveniles in my age. Today I easily learn working with new programmes and use the internet for any kind of research and to keep in touch with people. <br /> <br />Due to the importance of friends in my life and through my sense of checking things from different perspectives, I often was seen as the confidant in a group. I also adopted this role into school life and was chosen as class representative several years in a row. I liked to keep a group together, which led to my interest in organizing events. I planned a few (class-, surprise- and theme-) parties and excursions, for example a trip to Six Flags in Netherlands with twenty-five people. <br /> <br />My affection to travelling and exploring new cultures was invoked through my Philippine background and the wanderlust of my parents. As I myself was born in Germany, my parents wanted me to get to know more about my own roots. That is why we have spent our vacations on the Philippines for many times for a longer period. However, we also travelled to many other countries to which my relatives have emigrated too. That is how I early learned to respect and to deal with cultural differences. <br />After my first independent journey to relatives in Canada, several school exchanges and youth trips to other countries I was motivated to plan my first own voyage across the USA last summer. It was exciting and challenging as I paid and planed the whole trip on my own, but everything worked out well. I had a great summer exploring new places and socializing with new people. My friends brought me along to their schools and I learned more about the American school system. My curiosity about studying abroad was aroused. <br /> <br />The interest in languages was there since I have started to talk, as I have been raised trilingual: English, German (in which I am fluently) and Ilocano (Philippine dialect).This interest increased even more during high school. I always loved to speak English with my cousins and friends and later English was my favourite subject besides math, which explains why I chose those subjects as my A-level courses. Knowing that Latin is the foundation of most languages I picked it as my second foreign language at school. Furthermore did I participate in an unsolicited Spanish course after regular class and added French in an evening school for two semesters. Starting in the mid of February I will refresh my Spanish knowledge in an intensive Spanish course, which I will be going to twice a week. When I started my occupation as an assistant in a department of international import, I came up with a new interest and aim in learning Chinese or Japanese. This idea was aroused through my contact to our suppliers and partners from all over the world and especially from Asia. <br /> <br />Besides my above mentioned current employment in the merchandise centre of the international company OBI (German’s leading company of building centres), I have also earned working experiences in other areas. I am a member of the German life saver association since I was little. Couple of years ago I started to voluntary coach younger swimmers, accompanied youth trips of the club and worked as an assistant life guard for three summers. Additionally I served in a hotel-restaurant on weekends and holidays, besides school to earn some extra money. I also experienced work in an online advertising company during my internship and had a job in a department of quality control. All these different jobs taught me responsibility, working within guidelines, to be accurate, how to motivate others and how to balance my time and priorities. <br />But the employment which influenced me most and which taught me mobility, co-operation and independence was my experience with the organization CA. I always had the aim to go abroad for a longer period after high school. So after graduating last year I went to a summer camp in Monticello, in New York State, and worked as a life guard, swimming coach and counsellor for two months. <br />Living together with children for eight weeks and collaborating with counsellors from all over the world, consequential from various social and ethnic backgrounds, I had to face an exciting new challenge. At the end of camp though and after my above mentioned travelling session across the USA and Canada, I could look back on four moths full of new experiences, memories and friends from all over the world. Working with children of the ages between seven to seventeen twenty-four hours almost seven days a week surely nurtured my creative side, as I always had to find a new way of entertaining them. As being a role model I also improved my skills in leading a crowd, mediating and solving problems. The most important thing I learned though was to be flexible and open towards new people and for ways of handling new situations. <br /> <br />Due to the international orientation of the UM I believe that the offered International business program is totally suitable for me. It combines my passion for global communication, international mobility and a multicultural environment, as well as my impulse of organizing and leading projects, in a professional way. Through my experiences in several jobs, my temporarily employment abroad and my continuous voluntary work I learned the values of commitment, teamwork and of independence. These values represent the most important requirements to study on the principles of problem based learning (PBL), which makes me accomplish the expectations of the educational system, taught at the UM. <br /> <br />I am confident that with my strong motivation, my personality, my international and significant practical experiences and with the International Business program on top, I will have a solid foundation for a successful and fulfilling career, in which I plan to weld relationships across cultures and ensure that intercultural communication takes place effectively. <br /> <br />Enclosed you will find all required documents for the International Business program. Thank you for taking the time to consider my application. I look forward to a positive response and to a great time in an outstanding educational program at the UM. <br /> <br /> <br />Yours respectfully, <br />xxxhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LetterOfMotivation/xhpc/post.htmSun, 30 Jan 2005 19:53:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:71062CookeyHello, <br />i want to apply to university and have to hand in a letter of motivation. I have been working on this first version for a while. I started with some brainstorming and wrote down all the things that interested me, what i have done before, what i want to achieve and also asked my friends to descirbe me. I am pretty fluent in speaking, but have problems in writing, especially with grammar. So i did some research on the internet and wrote down some phrases that i like and used them for my essay. I hope that is ok, as i still worked out the letter by myself. I would appreciate if someone could have a look and give me some advices how to improve my LOM. <br />I am planning to send this letter to a british and an american friend too and also to hand it in to my former english teacher, so they might be able to help me too. <br />The letter is not really done yet, as i still want to bring in my interest in computers, internet (communication), organising (i used to organise trips with my friends, like a trip to six flag to with 25 people, or a trip to netherlands for 5 days with a group of friends) and that i have been class representative and usually also the one, who my friends came up to with their worries. But i dont know where to fit that paragraph in yet and how to build it up. I also think my letter is getting pretty long, can you help me to find parts, which i can cut out or shorten? <br /> <br />THANKS IN ADVANCE <br />cookey <br /> <br /> <br />___________________________________________________________________________ <br /> <br />Dear ladies and gentlemen <br /> <br />With this letter I would like to explain my motivation for studying International Business in general and why I chose the UM: <br /> <br />After completing secondary School with the German diploma ‘Abitur’ in the summer of 2004, I would like to continue my education at an institution of higher education, to obtain a Bachelor of Science in International Business. In particular, I am interested in learning more about the structure and organization of a company, economical processes (in general), global economic coherences and communications, new cultures and languages. I also want do develop my methodical abilities and soft skills. Thereafter I want to use the acquired knowledge to continue in a masters program of business, aiming to be well prepared to enter the business world. My long-term goal is to enrich an international operating company or to start as an independent entrepreneur, bringing in new ideas and an efficient working style gained through my higher education hopefully started at the UM <br /> <br />Looking at my career aspiration as a child, one would think they were totally contradicting. I was torn between the wishes to become an architect, bank clerk, lawyer and a “stewardess”, or more proper flight attendant. At first sight these professions are not able to be reconciled, but looking at the main characteristics of each profession a slight direction towards the essential attributes of an international business graduate is shown. <br />An Architect is creative, but also has to be accurate. The Bank clerk in my eyes was that business person in a suit who juggles with numbers and who is known as a logical thinker. The lawyer represents the interest in working within guidelines and the attitude to vouch for something, as well as the motivation to convince people of ones view. The stewardess is the profession which is most contrary to the others. Flexibility and mobility are her main attributes, as she is always on the way and has to be ready to be confronted with all kind of people of different backgrounds. She has to handle the most various and unexpected situations, while collaborating with others and leading a (passenger) crowd. <br />All these professions of my early admiration and the characteristics which are brought along with them seemed to have caught my attention as a child and started to develop to my own interests and skills while growing up. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />My affection to travelling and exploring new cultures was invoked through travelling with my family. While my friends mostly went to the same places every year for one or two weeks, I had spent my vacations in a different country every other year and usually for the whole summer. My parents originally come from the Philippines which explains why we often went there for a longer period. As many of my relatives emigrated out of the Philippines too and are spread all over the world, I had been visiting them throughout the past years in the USA, Austria, Italy, Canada and many other countries. <br /> <br />The interest in languages was there since I have started to talk, as I have been raised trilingual: English, German (in which I am fluently) and Ilocano (Philippine dialect).This interest increased even more during high school. I always loved to speak English with my cousins and friends and later English was my favourite subject besides math, which explains why I chose those subjects as my A-level courses. Knowing that Latin is the foundation of most languages I picked it as my second foreign language at school. Furthermore did I participate in an unsolicited Spanish course after regular class and added French in an evening school for two semesters. Starting in the mid of February I will refresh my Spanish knowledge in an intensive Spanish course, which I will be going to twice a week. When I started my occupation as an assistant in a department of international import, I came up with the idea of learning Chinese or Japanese. This new aim and interest was aroused through my contact to our suppliers and partners from all over the world and especially from Asia. <br /> <br />Besides my above mentioned current employment in the merchandise centre of the international company OBI (German’s leading company of building centres), I have also earned several experiences in other areas. I was working in the areas of tourism (side job as a waitress and three summers as an assistant life guard), sports (voluntary swimming coach in the German life savers association - DLRG), advertising (internship in an online advertising company) and in a department of quality control. All these different jobs taught me responsibility, working within guidelines, to be accurate, how to motivate others and how to balance my time and priorities. <br />But the working experience which influenced me most and which taught me mobility and independence was my experience with the organization CA. Motivated by my passion for travelling and cultures, but most of all because of my first independent trip to Canada and my school exchange to Reading in England, I always wanted to go abroad for a longer period after high school. So after graduating last year I went to a summer camp in Monticello, in New York State, and worked as a life guard, swimming coach and counsellor for two months. <br />Living together with children for eight weeks and collaborating with counsellors from all over the world, consequential from various social and ethnic backgrounds, I had to face an exciting new challenge. At the end of camp though and after my travelling session across the USA and Canada to visit friends and relatives (for two more months) I could look back on a summer full of new experiences, memories and friends from all over the world. Working with children of the ages between seven to seventeen twenty-four hours almost seven days a week surely nurtured my creative side, as I always had to find a new way of entertaining them. I also have learned to be a role model, to lead a crowd, to co-operate, to mediate and to solve problems and most of all to be flexible and open towards new people and for ways of handling new situations. <br /> <br />Due to the international orientation of the UM I believe that the offered International business program is totally suitable for me. It combines my passion for global communication, international mobility and multicultural environment, as well as my impulse of organizing and leading projects, in a professional way. Through my experiences in several jobs, my temporarily employment abroad and my continuous voluntary work I learned the values of commitment, teamwork and of independence. These values represent the most important requirements to study on the principles of problem based learning (PBL), which makes me accomplish the expectations of the educational system, taught at the UM. <br /> <br />I am confident that with my strong motivation, my personality, my international and significant practical experiences and with the International Business program on top, I will have a solid foundation for a successful and fulfilling career, in which I plan to weld relationships across cultures and ensure that intercultural communication takes place effectively. <br /> <br />Enclosed you will find all required documents for the International Business program. Thank you for taking the time to consider my application. I look forward to a positive response and to a great time in an outstanding educational program at the UM. <br /> <br /> <br />Yours respectfully, <br />XXXX <br /> <br />____________________________________________________________________________ <br />I dindt write the full name of the university and the organisation, i will do that in my finished letter.