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Dear Professor Kim,

My name is Samuel Park and I’m writing to you to discuss about my strengths, weaknesses and areas that I want to develop/improve in this class. As I have learned throughout my college years that effective communications skills can be an enormous advantage to me especially in business environment and I agree with it.

One of my strengths that I can think of is that I try my best when it comes to word choices and communicate in ways that is not rude and offensive to the person that I am communicating with. I’ve learned over the years that speaking with someone who is not careful with their word choices is very unpleasant at the very least. Also when I do business I’ve also noticed that it looks very unprofessional to business people to not to speak properly such as using slang. It felt like that I they are not very educated and thus I can’t really put my trust to do business with them and so I’ve learned what not to do when it comes to business communications and basically told myself at least what not to do and I seem to do that pretty well.

On the other hand, I also have a few weaknesses in business communications and the first one that I can think of is that I can’t seem to express my thought in a creative way. I can do mechanical writings, such as summarizing a story, just fine, but I seem to have trouble with coming up with my own words and then write about it. And when I do have one of those moments of creative spark and want to write down something, I tend to rush through the sentences and usually end up leaving a few words because I tend to think a lot faster than I can type and I am very good at typing so that’s a bit of a problem too. I know I should be proof reading when I’m finished writing but again my mind seems to read a lot faster than I should be reading carefully, so it is one of the biggest weaknesses that I should be working on.

Throughout this class, I hope to develop and improve not only my weaknesses but also my strengths as well. Further, I would also like to learn more about what employers are expecting from their potential employees so that I can become a better business professional.

Sincerely,

Samuel Park