xxxxxxx Avenue x
Block xxx, #xx-xxx
Singapore xxxxxx
2nd February 2011
Ms Janet Teo
Manager, Human Resource Office
Ministry of Education, Singapore
1 North Buona Vista Drive
Singapore 138675
Dear Ms Teo,
Physics Teacher, Teaching Career Track
I am enclosing my Résumé in response to your advertisement for the above post which appeared on the Ministry of Education’s official website on 1st February 2011.
I have recently graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Honours degree in Physics and specialisation in Astrophysics. I have been studying full-time for the past four years and was an administrator in the Republic of Singapore Air Force for two years prior to that, with a brief stint as a relief teacher during the period in between.
My time as a relief teacher has exposed me to the rigors of a career in education and provided me with valuable experience in managing large groups of students. Being a student myself for four years at NUS has allowed me to observe a wide plethora of teaching styles and develop my own for the effective teaching of Physics. Service in the RSAF has prepared me for work as a teacher by instilling in me the values of diligence and responsibility while allowing me to hone my skill in being thorough, meticulous and systematic in my work, an important quality for any teacher if students are to be able to follow his or her lessons.
My lifelong interest in academia, encouraged by my mother who is herself a teacher, inspired me to seek a career in education. The contributions teachers make to the betterment of Singapore is a noble one as our future will be shaped by the students of today. I thus cannot imagine any higher calling than passing the torch of knowledge on to the individuals who will be driving Singapore’s progress in but a decade or two, each of them unique and talented in his or her own special way.
From reading your mission statement I am convinced of your determination to further the standard of the education scene in Singapore and to the provision of opportunities for all children to develop holistically. As such, I find the occupation of a teacher to be profoundly meaningful and rewarding a profession and wish to commit myself to the service of our education system. I sincerely hope that you will look favourably upon my application and look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Isaac Schroeder
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ReplyDeleteHey good Issac,
ReplyDeleteThe letter is well-heeled and bound to get you your job unless the screen personnel had a quarrel with his wife and got himself prejudiced.
It's clear, well-written, concise, and generally one dainty art. Though I feel there was something missing in the letter, in the form of an X-factor; something occult about you that makes me want you so badly. That, I hadnt managed; and perhaps my own fault in part, and yours as a future teacher in another, for want of selling your ideals in writing; in better or perhaps more undisputable and fashionable ways?
Don't get me wrong, however; the letter makes almost a crystal clear perfection in any class of prose: but given an advertisement of a letter, something in the way of mystery and excitement might be lacking?
Just as when you look at an amazing girl you like and you think of love at first sight; though that is totally hogwash, in the same way, and more classified; your employer would want to think of "OMG": Get that dude!!
But I personally dont think I can write any better in terms of excitement and mystery; because after all, it is very hard to incorporate such rhetorical informality in a formal templates.
Cheers
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