Blog #3 Cover Letter

BLK 295B

COMPASSVALE CRESCENT #12-235

SINGAPORE 542295

February 17, 2013

MR EDWARD LIM
DENKA SINGAPORE PTE LTD
4 SHENTON WAY, #29-02 SGX CENTRE 2
SINGAPORE 68807

Dear Mr Lim

Application for Management Trainee (Sales) 

I am pleased to find your company’s job opening for management trainee (Sales) though my school’s career portal. I am currently a final year Electrical Engineering student at National University of Singapore. Due to my interest in corporate finance and accounting, I am also pursuing an accounting qualification (ACCA) at Kaplan financial.

There are two reasons why I think I might be suitable for this position. First, I am passionate about sales. During the past four years, I had been working as a part time retail and sales staff for Sony Vaio Co. I have gained extensive experience in I.T products sales and consistently hitting or outperforming the sales target. I enjoy serving my customers, find out their needs and commit myself to providing them with a great service experience. Being a senior sales promoter in the company, I also had the chance to educate new promoters on promoting techniques and product know-hows. These includes sales tactics, product demonstration and negotiation techniques. My greatest achievement was when I lead a group of junior promoters to clinch the top sales team at a local IT show in 2012.

The second reason is my ability to speak fluent Japanese. As this job requires the successful candidate to be posted to Japan for two years, I believe my knowledge in Japanese language shall be an asset. I had been learning Japanese for the past three years at my University and during this period, I had achieved the highest level of the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test). I feel that I am been equipped with both the language and cultural skills to communicate in Japanese and work in a Japanese company.

I have enclosed a copy of my résumé for your reference. I hope to hear from you soon.

Thank You.

Sincerely,
Mok Siu Chung

Blog #2 Resolving Interpersonal Conflict

Interpersonal conflict is common in our life. Tension arises when the people we are working with fail to share and agree on the same views, and have different interests or goals. As students, we tend to encounter conflicts most frequently when we are doing project work.

I have a personal experience that some of us may have experienced before. My friend and I were part of a six person project group. My friend and I were third year students while the other four persons were final year students. During the first meeting, all the final year students claim that they had FYP and may not have so much time for the project. My friend and I understood their situation and agreed to do more for the team. We were voted to be the leaders of the team

Initially, they were very cooperative and they did their assigned part of the work dutifully. However, as the deadline for their FYP approached, they started to lose focus on the project. While me and my friend tried our best to accommodate their schedule, they still couldn’t turn up for meetings and did not complete their assigned task on time. We tried to reason with them that everyone had a part in the project and wanted them to stay focus.

However, things got ugly when one of the year 4 students complained to our project supervisor about us being too autocratic. We were shocked and felt betrayed by this member. Our team was scolded by the supervisor that our team lacked teamwork and communication. In the end, although we managed to come together as a team to finish up the project, we got a bad grade as we gave our supervisor a very bad impression.

I felt that our teammate could have communicated with us first before approaching the supervisor. What did you all think? And if you were in my shoes and find that someone complained about you , how will you all feel and what will you do?

I would appreciate to hear comments from you guys. Thank you and see you all next week!