Cover Letter - Blog Post #3

Cover Letter & Job Offer
My Resume

Guillaume UBALDI

University Town, NUS – 28 College Avenue East
 Singapore 138598

Phone: +33.6.12.34.56.78 / Email: guillaume.ubaldi@grenoble-inp.org

Singapore,

September 9th, 2012

Object : Application for a «Technical Product Development Internship», L’Oréal

Dear Sir or Madam,

           Presently as a third-year student at Grenoble Institute of Technology - Industrial Engineering, I am writing this letter in the context of an internship in L’Oréal. Within the framework of my academic training, I will have the opportunity to carry out an internship as an Assistant Engineer from January, 2013 and for a duration of approximately 3 months.

            I am contacting you because I am particularly interested in experiencing your production centre based in the Paris area. Improving my knowledge of the industrial world within the engineering department of one of the most prestigious cosmetic groups represents an attractive challenge. Besides, I am a regular consumer of numerous L’Oréal products, which I find at the same time essential and innovative. 

       For the mission you propose, you are looking for an innovative person, highly motivated, fascinated by L’Oréal and avid to bring his/her own stone to this monument : I can confirm, in all modesty, that I possess these assets. As part of my studies, I have already carried out a project during which I have designed a tactile table for cooking. This experience will help me because your mission appeals to someone who has already been trained to innovation and new product development. In addition, I am a great fan of your company and of the proportion it has assumed the last years. This admiration can only reinforce my motivation and my desire to perform. 

  Finally, in a world where interpersonal relationships are growing, I strongly think that communication has an important role to play within a company. Aware of this, I am currently attending some Professional Communication courses at the National University of Singapore. I am pretty sure it will be a helping asset for this mission.

           Therefore, if you entrust me this mission, it would be with a lot of motivation and conviction that I would take up the challenge. You can contact me at any time through the e-mail address you will find on the top of the letter, or directly on my mobile phone.

I look forward to your response and I thank you for your particular attention.

Best regards,

Guillaume UBALDI

Edited #1: Thanks Tasha ;)
Edited #2 : Brad's advices

Agreeing without complaint : that depends... (Interpersonal conflict)

Last March, in the framework of our studies, two classmates and I were charged to carry out an industrial mission at Areva (leader throughout the world in nuclear power). This mission dealt with the protection of the information about a confidential chemical process. The main objective was to come up with a mapping on which the flow of information related to this process was detailed. This was to prevent any leaks of confidential information. We had 13 days to achieve this goal.

Moment of clarity

Quickly, we realized that our tutor was rarely available for helping us, and that particularly annoyed me. One day, as we were struggling to get information from the employees, he came up with a new idea : "What if you designed an action plan to avoid any leaks ?"

The mission ended soon.

One of my partners and I were frustrated and angry about this sudden moment of clarity. But the other one - a diplomat by nature - thought it was perfectly normal that our tutor changed our objectives without realizing the workload it represented. I was shocked by his behavior. I wanted to tell our tutor that it was a bit exaggerated, but our last partner said absolutely no. From this moment, the situation remained tense.

A touch of anger

We began to discuss with our partner, telling him that it was unacceptable that our tutor was, at first, completely absent and, on the other hand, that he could suddenly come to us and entrust us to design a whole action plan. I wanted to write an e-mail to our teachers, but our partner said : "No, it could affect our score". And I responded : "I don't care about the score ! If you behave like that, accepting everything, you'll be destroyed when you'll get a job !"

My partner had this special talent for never getting angry. It looked like I was speaking to a wall.

At the end

Finally, we did the job as required, without complaining to anybody. But there is still this touch of anger inside me. This frustration which pushed me to almost insult my friend because I refused to be a doormat. He thought that we had to do what the superiors told us to do, unquestioningly. But I finally realize that he was not responsible for this situation.

As my reaction was counterproductive, do you think, nevertheless, that it was justified ? How could I react otherwise ?


Edited 18/09/2012