To: Brad Blackstone
From: Jerome Goh
Subject: Self-introductory Email
Dear Professor Brad Blackstone,
I would like to take this
opportunity to formally introduce myself. My name is Jerome Goh and currently
studying as a telematics undergraduate in Singapore Institute of Technology
(SIT). Prior to national service, I completed my diploma in business process
& systems engineering in Temasek Polytechnic (TP).
My interest in this course started
out as a practical idea: being able to secure a job in the next few years. I decided to take this course even though it was almost completely new to me as most of the modules I have no affiliation to my diploma. Despite this, I am
willing to learn and hopefully find myself doing this as a career in the
future. However, my love for automobiles, which I picked up from my father, made
me really interested in a possible career in this sector.
In terms of my communications
strengths, I find myself being able to communicate effectively to strangers or
superiors. During my internship in my polytechnic days, I was given the
opportunity to present my group’s project proposal to a board of higher
management from the company as they were interested to find out more about it.
I was presenting my group’s idea to a group of people I had never met before.
This experience gave me more confidence in talking to strangers and
stringing my thought process quickly and effectively.
The biggest difficulty I find
myself facing would be public speaking. I have presented countless times during
my polytechnic days, but I find myself unable to present myself confidently
with large groups of people. It often causes me to stutter as I awkwardly
string my words into coherent sentences.
The goals I have set by the end of
this trimester would be to improve on my writing skills and my public speaking.
I would like to polish them and turn these into my strengths. I look forward to
learning more from you with your guidance over the course of the remaining
weeks.
Thank you for taking your time to
read this.
Yours sincerely,
Jerome
Edited: 3rd October 2018
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