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Friday, February 10, 2012
Application Letter
Ling Li Ting Cheryl
BLK 123#01-234
Ang Mo Kio Ave 2Singapore 123456
(+65)90487745
lingcheryl89@hotmail.com
8 February 2012
Alice Tan (Ms.)
Senior Human Resources Specialist (HR Business Partner)
Human Resources
Merck Pte. Ltd.
Dear Ms Alice Tan,
Position of Business Support Executive
I refer to the application for the Business Support Executive position in Merck Millipore. I'm a final year Chemical Engineering student from the National University of Singapore (NUS). I am highly interested in working, learning and being a part of the highly driven and challenging environment in the company.
Firstly, the diversity in Merck entices me as I enjoy meeting and working with new people. Having studied in NUS, I had opportunities to interact with peers from various races, nationalities and cultural backgrounds. I have worked well in a team with 2 Chinese for laboratory works for 1 year, to be on an overseas field trip in Shanghai with a group of approximately 20 students and additionally, under the mentorship and collaboration with Indonesians and Chinese Researchers during my attachment at A*STAR Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences for 6 months.
Secondly, on top of self-learning, I also have a passion in leading and coaching peers. I was a leader in many of my co-curricular activities such as Fencing and the Girl Guides’ group. As the Captain and Trainer, I led and motivated several less experienced peers through encouraging them to sign up for competitions despite it being daunting for novices. To improve myself, I communicated and exchanged ideas with external club and national fencers, as well as learned from them. In the Girl Guides’, as the Patrol Leader whom was in-charge of the progress and welfare of more than 8 members. I was constantly aware of their progress report and encouraged them to take on self-initiated projects and awards out of the norm.
In sync with Merck’s dedication to continuous drive to improve and innovate, I am constantly on the lookout to propose better solutions to improve my working environments. Be it a school project or in a workplace, I always feel that with the ever-changing workforce and people’s needs, improvements of any scale or form, can always be made. Having performed laboratory works at A*STAR, I always sought for improvements in every task I perform, such as reducing the time taken even for the simple task of samples weighing. As a part-time service crew at Udders Ice Cream Pte Ltd, I always looked to increase work efficiency and customers’ satisfaction such as implementing the concept of specialization at peak hours, looking out for customers with special needs etc.
Lastly, I am enticed in working in a fast-paced and challenging environment. Having been placed in stressful working environments before, such as handling Tax Compliance forms in KPMG and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, I believe that I have adequate composure and working attitude to drive me to strive hard in demanding working environments.
I sincerely hope that I would be considered for the recruitment of the Business Support Executive position. I can be contacted at 9xxxxxxx (Mobile) and also via email at lingcheryl89@hotmail.com.
Thank you so much for your consideration.
Yours Sincerely,
Cheryl Ling
Sunday, February 5, 2012
A Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media
Most of us in this century have, in one way or another, utilized social media as a communication tool. Without me explicitly stating, I believe most of us understand the advantages of social media. Simply stating, social media has given us the ease of communication through crossing various social circles, especially via the internet. However, I’d also like to remind everyone and myself of the very same fact that social media is a great form of communication tool for spreading messages widely and quickly to anyone, could be detrimental as well.
I am someone who is practically dependent on social media as I see it as one of the greatest way to keep in touch with local and global news, and most importantly to be kept updated about my friends' thoughts and their lives. However, being that, I almost always forget the nature of online written communication. That is, it is 1) possible to be misread with the incorrect tone and emotions, on top of the reader's assumptions 2) possible to be misread especially if your message does not address a specific person.
There was one afternoon where I was irritated by the constant squabbling by two friends, to the extent that I could not study anymore. I casually changed my website's status online to 'GROW UP GUYS.' and did not think too much about it as the both of them do not have an account on the website. However that night, I received furious text messages from my sibling abt the website. She thought that I was talking about her quarrel with her boyfriend, and asked me to mind my own business. I wanted to clarify it immediately face to face but she was already asleep. Feeling absolutely enraged by her messages and the fact that she didn't confront me face to face, I replied back furiously. She then apologised immediately the next day through texting me, and asked if I was still mad at her. However I didn't reply her message as I was still mad at her for being so ridiculous. I needed a day to cool off and was only ready to speak to her at night. Out of my expectations, when I reached home that night, she yelled at me and we fought again. It broke into a physical fight and it ended up with her not coming home for 4 days! When she did, she apologised and explained. I sat and listened to her for an hour. We chat and spoke for hours. It turned out that she was always too stressed and because she doesn't know how to verbalize her thoughts, she couldn't begin to confide. The night which everything happened was a trigger to her release of emotions. I encouraged her to speak to me, because communicating needs practice. I also added on that if she found difficulty in doing so, she could write to me through text messages, emails or even through facebook messages. She felt better and was also more encouraged to talk to me thereafter.
What would you do to resolve this tension between you and your elder sibling? Was there any better actions I could have taken or something I could say to prevent from happening? Thanks for reading! Hope to hear from anyone about what you have to feedback on.
I am someone who is practically dependent on social media as I see it as one of the greatest way to keep in touch with local and global news, and most importantly to be kept updated about my friends' thoughts and their lives. However, being that, I almost always forget the nature of online written communication. That is, it is 1) possible to be misread with the incorrect tone and emotions, on top of the reader's assumptions 2) possible to be misread especially if your message does not address a specific person.
There was one afternoon where I was irritated by the constant squabbling by two friends, to the extent that I could not study anymore. I casually changed my website's status online to 'GROW UP GUYS.' and did not think too much about it as the both of them do not have an account on the website. However that night, I received furious text messages from my sibling abt the website. She thought that I was talking about her quarrel with her boyfriend, and asked me to mind my own business. I wanted to clarify it immediately face to face but she was already asleep. Feeling absolutely enraged by her messages and the fact that she didn't confront me face to face, I replied back furiously. She then apologised immediately the next day through texting me, and asked if I was still mad at her. However I didn't reply her message as I was still mad at her for being so ridiculous. I needed a day to cool off and was only ready to speak to her at night. Out of my expectations, when I reached home that night, she yelled at me and we fought again. It broke into a physical fight and it ended up with her not coming home for 4 days! When she did, she apologised and explained. I sat and listened to her for an hour. We chat and spoke for hours. It turned out that she was always too stressed and because she doesn't know how to verbalize her thoughts, she couldn't begin to confide. The night which everything happened was a trigger to her release of emotions. I encouraged her to speak to me, because communicating needs practice. I also added on that if she found difficulty in doing so, she could write to me through text messages, emails or even through facebook messages. She felt better and was also more encouraged to talk to me thereafter.
What would you do to resolve this tension between you and your elder sibling? Was there any better actions I could have taken or something I could say to prevent from happening? Thanks for reading! Hope to hear from anyone about what you have to feedback on.
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