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Dear Professor Kim,

I am writing to discuss about my strengths, weaknesses, and areas that I want to help develop and improve on in this class. I’m a 3rd year MHR major at Cal Poly Pomona and throughout my three years of post secondary education I have realized specific areas of forte and have discovered some areas of weaknesses that I would like to improve on. For example some of my strengths include but are not limited to having adequate verbal communication skills, listening skills, writing ability, and self-confidence in a public atmosphere. Some of my weaknesses include poor time management skills, and lack of professional experience.

To begin with, I have strong verbal communication skills; basically I can get my point across to people who I am trying to convey my thoughts to. I would like to elaborate on my broad range of skills first of all my communication skills comes primarily from being in a fraternity. I am required to communicate with many people and I meet several new people almost all time. I am confident in myself in a public and social setting. I am not afraid to speak in a public setting therefore I am able to get my point across whenever I need to. Not to mention I have also taken a public speaking class that I enjoyed during my freshman year at Cal Poly Pomona that helps enhances my communication skills. Most of the time I am able to convey my thoughts effectively but sometimes I hit mental road blocks when I am speaking and words don’t come out the way I want it to and that’s what I want to work on and improve in this class so it can help me become a better public and professional speaker.

Furthermore, I have adequate writing ability and listening skills but there is always room for improvement and that is what I intend on gaining from this class. I can convey my thoughts decently into writing but I want to improve sentence structure and my flow of thought. My listening skills come instinctively with my communication skills. I believe you can’t be a good communicator if you can’t listen at the same time for other people’s thoughts and inputs. These traits come from my eagerness to help people whenever they come to me for help or have problems. Being a student of Cal Poly Pomona, I am not unfamiliar with group projects and presentations. I have dealt with group projects in which we are required to communicate and listen to each group member in order to do a successful job which further enhances these attributes of interpersonal skills.

Last but not least, I want to digress and discuss some weaknesses. Some of my weaknesses include poor time management skills, and lack of professional experience. To begin with, I have poor time management skills and I realize I do have this problem. I need to become more punctual and I need to take priority in executing more significant matters first in order to become more punctual and effective with my timing. Poor timing management is my problem but it can easily be solved through effective daily planning and execution. Another weakness that I possess is lack of professional experience. I believe it is a weakness because when applying for jobs, work places will favor people with more experience over those who lack experience. Lack of professional experience may also denote lack of understanding of the workplace or proper work etiquette but I’m hoping I can gain that knowledge after this class somehow. Even though, I haven’t been employed by an outside source of employment I do have some work experience working for my family’s business so I do know how to conduct myself in the work place to some extent but I would like to learn more on what goes on and improve on that subject. Well this is all I need to discuss for now, thank you for your time and hopefully after this class I will perfect my strengths and improve on my weaknesses.

Sincerely,

Steven Chen