99 Marvin Rd
City, State 00000
(999) 999-9999
info@kmd-solutions.com
January 20, 2008
Mrs. Mary Farr
Human Resources Manager
ABC Company
1111 Bessemer Avenue
City, State 00000
Dear Mary:
I am writing to apply for the position of manufacturing engineer that was advertised in today's XYZ Times. As you will note from my enclosed CV, I have experience with a wide range of programming languages through academic projects and part-time employment.
"In this section of your job cover letter highlight information relevant to the description of the advertisement of the position that you are applying for. So, show the skills and expertise that you have that match the description of the job you are applying for. "
I have demonstrated excellent people skills in addition to strong writing and analytical skills. I believe my education, skills and experiences fit your requirements, and I am confident my skills would be an asset to your company (or to your client if you are applying to a recruiter)
I am available to meet with you at a time that's convenient to you. Please contact me to set up a time. I look forward to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
your signature (not needed when sending via email or for an online job cover letter)
Your name
Your contact phone number.
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XYZ Company
87 Delaware Road
Hatfield, CA 08065
(909) 555-5555
george.gillhooley@email.com
Date
Dear Mr. Gilhooley,
I am writing to apply for the programmer position advertised in the Times Union. As requested, I am enclosing a completed job application, my certification, my resume and three references.
The opportunity presented in this listing is very interesting, and I believe that my strong technical experience and education will make me a very competitive candidate for this position. The key strengths that I possess for success in this position include:
• I have successfully designed, developed, and supported live use applications
• I strive for continued excellence
• I provide exceptional contributions to customer service for all customers
With a BS degree in Computer Programming, I have a full understanding of the full life cycle of a software development project. I also have experience in learning and excelling at new technologies as needed.
Please see my resume for additional information on my experience.
I can be reached anytime via email at george.gillhooley@email.com or my cell phone, 909-555-5555.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to speaking with you about this employment opportunity.
Sincerely,
FirstName LastName
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Room 354, Block 6
Model Village
North Point
Hong Kong
Phone: 24862893
Mobile: 95427415
E-mail: wwm654@hkinternet.com
22 April 2011
Mr William Chan
Personnel Manager
Wong And Lim Consulting
PO Box 583
Kwai Chung
Kowloon
Dear Mr Chan
Application for the Post of Management Trainee
I am writing to apply for the post of Management Trainee, which was advertised on the Student Affairs Office notice board of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 22 April 2011.
My working experience at Lucky Star Garment Manufactory Limited improved my leadership skills, communication skills and ability to work in a team environment. I have fluent spoken and written English. I also have fluent spoken and written Mandarin, and can therefore work in mainland China.
Currently I am studying a B.A. in Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, graduating in 2011. Subjects which I am studying that are relevant to the post of Management Trainee include Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Accounting, Marketing and Strategic Management.
My final year project is entitled Knowledge Management Practices in HK. Carrying out this project has improved my communication skills, my leadership skills and my ability to lead and supervise subordinates effectively. I have also learned how to run a project from the planning stage to its completion.
During my studies I have held the post of Executive in the Management Society. While leading and organising Management Society activities I have improved my ability to lead and supervise subordinates effectively, ability to work under pressure and ability to work in a team environment.
Working for Wong And Lim Consulting appeals to me because it has a good reputation and it provides excellent training. Your organisation produces a high-quality service, and I can contribute to this with my leadership skills and my ability to work under pressure.
I am available for interview at any time. I can be contacted most easily on the mobile phone number given above. I look forward to meeting you.
Yours sincerely
Wong Wai Man Wilfred
Encl: Resume
Saturday, 23 April 2011
cover letter format
Name
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Phone Number
Email Address
Date
Employer Contact Information (if you have it)
Name
Title
Company
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Salutation
Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name, (leave out if you don't have a contact)
Body of Cover Letter
The body of your cover letter lets the employer know what position you are applying for, why the employer should select you for an interview, and how you will follow-up.
First Paragraph
The first paragraph of your letter should include information on why you are writing. Mention the position you are applying for and where you found the job listing. Include the name of a mutual contact, if you have one.
Middle Paragraph(s)
The next section of your cover letter should describe what you have to offer the employer. Mention specifically how your qualifications match the job you are applying for. Remember, you are interpreting your resume, not repeating it.
Final Paragraph
Conclude your cover letter by thanking the employer for considering you for the position. Include information on how you will follow-up.
Complimentary Close
Your sincerely,
Signature
Handwritten Signature (for a mailed letter)
Typed Signature
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Phone Number
Email Address
Date
Employer Contact Information (if you have it)
Name
Title
Company
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Salutation
Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name, (leave out if you don't have a contact)
Body of Cover Letter
The body of your cover letter lets the employer know what position you are applying for, why the employer should select you for an interview, and how you will follow-up.
First Paragraph
The first paragraph of your letter should include information on why you are writing. Mention the position you are applying for and where you found the job listing. Include the name of a mutual contact, if you have one.
Middle Paragraph(s)
The next section of your cover letter should describe what you have to offer the employer. Mention specifically how your qualifications match the job you are applying for. Remember, you are interpreting your resume, not repeating it.
Final Paragraph
Conclude your cover letter by thanking the employer for considering you for the position. Include information on how you will follow-up.
Complimentary Close
Your sincerely,
Signature
Handwritten Signature (for a mailed letter)
Typed Signature
Monday, 4 April 2011
Template for writing a CV
Name
Address
E-Mail Id
Contact No.
Objective
Your objective should fit into the purpose of the opening notified or the general requirements a company looks for. It should not be too broad and vague.
Executive Summary
If you are a fresher, focus on your qualification, grades and achievements during your student life.
If you are an experienced candidate, focus on your work experience and the skills you have acquired during your employment.
If you have any expertise on any software packages which can be useful for the company, its a good place in your CV to mention about it.
If you have any other skills which you think would impress your prospective employer, its a good place to mention them. They will catch the employers attention fast.
In this section of CV you can also mention about your travel with in or outside the country which added value to your last company.
Work Experience
Working as "designation" for "company's name" since "month and year"
Job responsibilities
Mention about your key responsibilities in this section of CV in bullets.
Do not make it an endless paragraph.
Use professional words.
Write about the skills you have acquired during this assignment.
Worked as "designation" for "company's name" from "starting month and year" to "ending month and year".
Job responsibilities
Proceed like last description
Achievements
Your achievements during the professional or the student life can be mentioned here.
If you have received any recognition at work, it can be mentioned in this part of your CV.
Extra Curricular Activities
The activities in this section show a facet of your personality.
Activities you used to participate in during your student life and still continuing can find a place here.
Hobbies
Activities that you do during your free time.
Personal Information
Date of Birth
Nationality
Languages known
References
You can provide them when asked.
Provide one reference from your professional life and one from your personal life.
Address
E-Mail Id
Contact No.
Objective
Your objective should fit into the purpose of the opening notified or the general requirements a company looks for. It should not be too broad and vague.
Executive Summary
If you are a fresher, focus on your qualification, grades and achievements during your student life.
If you are an experienced candidate, focus on your work experience and the skills you have acquired during your employment.
If you have any expertise on any software packages which can be useful for the company, its a good place in your CV to mention about it.
If you have any other skills which you think would impress your prospective employer, its a good place to mention them. They will catch the employers attention fast.
In this section of CV you can also mention about your travel with in or outside the country which added value to your last company.
Work Experience
Working as "designation" for "company's name" since "month and year"
Job responsibilities
Mention about your key responsibilities in this section of CV in bullets.
Do not make it an endless paragraph.
Use professional words.
Write about the skills you have acquired during this assignment.
Worked as "designation" for "company's name" from "starting month and year" to "ending month and year".
Job responsibilities
Proceed like last description
Achievements
Your achievements during the professional or the student life can be mentioned here.
If you have received any recognition at work, it can be mentioned in this part of your CV.
Extra Curricular Activities
The activities in this section show a facet of your personality.
Activities you used to participate in during your student life and still continuing can find a place here.
Hobbies
Activities that you do during your free time.
Personal Information
Date of Birth
Nationality
Languages known
References
You can provide them when asked.
Provide one reference from your professional life and one from your personal life.
Writing Checklists
Checklists are written to check your readiness of any important program.
It should be in yes / no question form. You should follow same tense in all the questions - present perfect or present tense. There should be continuity in the items you are checking. Every questions should have check boxes (yes / no) to tick. Check lists should also have title.
Eg: Have you informed your neighbouts about your travel? Yes / No
Task:
You are arranging a industry visit to a chemical factory. Prepare a checklist of eight items to check whether you got all things ready.
It should be in yes / no question form. You should follow same tense in all the questions - present perfect or present tense. There should be continuity in the items you are checking. Every questions should have check boxes (yes / no) to tick. Check lists should also have title.
Eg: Have you informed your neighbouts about your travel? Yes / No
Task:
You are arranging a industry visit to a chemical factory. Prepare a checklist of eight items to check whether you got all things ready.
Writing Instructions
Write instructions in points or bulleted form.
Use imperative verbs in the sentences. Start sentences with imperative verbs.(orders)
Sequence your orders with appropriate continuity.
Write title for your instructions.
Task:
Write instructions that has to be followed by students in a Computer Lab
Use imperative verbs in the sentences. Start sentences with imperative verbs.(orders)
Sequence your orders with appropriate continuity.
Write title for your instructions.
Task:
Write instructions that has to be followed by students in a Computer Lab
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Movie review
How did you like the movie you saw in your lab class? did you like it? which character you liked the most? why? what do you think happens later? pls predict. give your review about the movie scenes you saw.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Lady or the Tiger
Pls give an ending to this story in your comments. Do use the word 'desolate' in your comments.
sujatha
Lady or the Tiger?
Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer.
One of the king's ideas was a public arena for punishment. Crime punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena.
All the people would gather in this building. The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased.
If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. The case of the suspect was thus decided.
But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person. To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman. The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward.
This was the king's method of carrying out justice. The accused person could not know which door was hiding the lady. He opened either as he pleased, without knowing whether, in the next minute, he was to be killed or married.
Sometimes the fierce animal came out of one door. Sometimes it came out of the other.
This method was a popular one. When the people gathered together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they would see a bloody killing or a happy ending. So everyone was always interested.
The king had a beautiful daughter who was like him in many ways. He loved her above all humanity. The princess secretly loved a young man who was the best-looking and bravest in the land. But he was a commoner, not part of an important family.
One day, the king discovered the relationship between his daughter and the young man. The man was immediately put in prison. A day was set for his trial in the king's public arena. This, of course, was an especially important event. Never before had a common subject been brave enough to love the daughter of the king.
The king knew that the young man would be punished, even if he opened the right door. And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.
The day of the trial arrived. From far and near the people gathered in the arena and outside its walls. The king and his advisers were in their places, opposite the two doors. All was ready. The sign was given. The door under the king opened and the lover of the princess entered the arena.
Tall, beautiful and fair, his appearance was met with a sound of approval and tension. Half the people had not known so perfect a young man lived among them. No wonder the princess loved him! What a terrible thing for him to be there!
As the young man entered the public arena, he turned to bend to the king. But he did not at all think of the great ruler. The young man's eyes instead were fixed on the princess, who sat to the right of her father.
From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.
The princess had more power, influence and force of character than anyone who had ever before been interested in such a case. She had done what no other person had done. She had possessed herself of the secret of the doors. She knew behind which door stood the tiger, and behind which waited the lady. Gold, and the power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess.
She also knew who the lady was. The lady was one of the loveliest in the kingdom. Now and then the princess had seen her looking at and talking to the young man.
The princess hated the woman behind that silent door. She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.
Her lover turned to look at the princess. His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her. He saw that she knew behind which door waited the tiger, and behind which stood the lady. He had expected her to know it.
The only hope for the young man was based on the success of the princess in discovering this mystery. When he looked at her, he saw that she had been successful, as he knew she would succeed.
Then his quick and tense look asked the question: "Which?" It was as clear to her as if he shouted it from where he stood. There was not time to be lost.
The princess raised her hand, and made a short, quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw it. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena.
He turned, and with a firm and quick step he walked across the empty space. Every heart stopped beating. Every breath was held. Every eye was fixed upon that man. He went to the door on the right and opened it.
Now, the point of the story is this: Did the tiger come out of that door, or did the lady?
If she showed the tiger's door, her lover would be dead. But if she showed the other door, her lover will marry another woman. She'll lose him again.
And so I leave it with all of you:
Which came out of the open door – the lady, or the tiger?
sujatha
Lady or the Tiger?
Long ago, in the very olden time, there lived a powerful king. Some of his ideas were progressive. But others caused people to suffer.
One of the king's ideas was a public arena for punishment. Crime punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance. When a person was accused of a crime, his future would be judged in the public arena.
All the people would gather in this building. The king sat high up on his ceremonial chair. He gave a sign. A door under him opened. The accused person stepped out into the arena. Directly opposite the king were two doors. They were side by side, exactly alike. The person on trial had to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. He could open whichever door he pleased.
If the accused man opened one door, out came a hungry tiger, the fiercest in the land. The tiger immediately jumped on him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. The case of the suspect was thus decided.
But, if the accused opened the other door, there came forth from it a woman, chosen especially for the person. To this lady he was immediately married, in honor of his innocence. It was not a problem that he might already have a wife and family, or that he might have chosen to marry another woman. The king permitted nothing to interfere with his great method of punishment and reward.
This was the king's method of carrying out justice. The accused person could not know which door was hiding the lady. He opened either as he pleased, without knowing whether, in the next minute, he was to be killed or married.
Sometimes the fierce animal came out of one door. Sometimes it came out of the other.
This method was a popular one. When the people gathered together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they would see a bloody killing or a happy ending. So everyone was always interested.
The king had a beautiful daughter who was like him in many ways. He loved her above all humanity. The princess secretly loved a young man who was the best-looking and bravest in the land. But he was a commoner, not part of an important family.
One day, the king discovered the relationship between his daughter and the young man. The man was immediately put in prison. A day was set for his trial in the king's public arena. This, of course, was an especially important event. Never before had a common subject been brave enough to love the daughter of the king.
The king knew that the young man would be punished, even if he opened the right door. And the king would take pleasure in watching the series of events, which would judge whether or not the man had done wrong in loving the princess.
The day of the trial arrived. From far and near the people gathered in the arena and outside its walls. The king and his advisers were in their places, opposite the two doors. All was ready. The sign was given. The door under the king opened and the lover of the princess entered the arena.
Tall, beautiful and fair, his appearance was met with a sound of approval and tension. Half the people had not known so perfect a young man lived among them. No wonder the princess loved him! What a terrible thing for him to be there!
As the young man entered the public arena, he turned to bend to the king. But he did not at all think of the great ruler. The young man's eyes instead were fixed on the princess, who sat to the right of her father.
From the day it was decided that the sentence of her lover should be decided in the arena, she had thought of nothing but this event.
The princess had more power, influence and force of character than anyone who had ever before been interested in such a case. She had done what no other person had done. She had possessed herself of the secret of the doors. She knew behind which door stood the tiger, and behind which waited the lady. Gold, and the power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess.
She also knew who the lady was. The lady was one of the loveliest in the kingdom. Now and then the princess had seen her looking at and talking to the young man.
The princess hated the woman behind that silent door. She hated her with all the intensity of the blood passed to her through long lines of cruel ancestors.
Her lover turned to look at the princess. His eye met hers as she sat there, paler and whiter than anyone in the large ocean of tense faces around her. He saw that she knew behind which door waited the tiger, and behind which stood the lady. He had expected her to know it.
The only hope for the young man was based on the success of the princess in discovering this mystery. When he looked at her, he saw that she had been successful, as he knew she would succeed.
Then his quick and tense look asked the question: "Which?" It was as clear to her as if he shouted it from where he stood. There was not time to be lost.
The princess raised her hand, and made a short, quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw it. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena.
He turned, and with a firm and quick step he walked across the empty space. Every heart stopped beating. Every breath was held. Every eye was fixed upon that man. He went to the door on the right and opened it.
Now, the point of the story is this: Did the tiger come out of that door, or did the lady?
If she showed the tiger's door, her lover would be dead. But if she showed the other door, her lover will marry another woman. She'll lose him again.
And so I leave it with all of you:
Which came out of the open door – the lady, or the tiger?
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