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Dear Professor Kim, There are many elements important to being succesful in the business world. Many of those I have yet to fully develop or even acquire. I believe that three essential skilsl emphasize communication, leadership and proficiency working in teams. In addittion to those requirements some traits and characteristics that are beneficial in the business world are knowledge and experience in golf, public speaking, and resaurant ettiquette. Communication skills are vital in business because they are business. It is how people in firms communicate that helps to solve day to day problems. One must be have equally powerful comprehension and communication skills so that problems and tasks are represented correctly. Also, when people can clearly understand one another it helps businesses to be efficient. Experience in leadership roles is also important because it helps one to lead a team in an effective manner that uses the minimal amount of time and resources of the company. Just like one must be able to lead a team one must also be able to be a productive member of one. It is important to be able to play all roles that the firm asks of you and to be as versatile as possible. What is most important about having all these skills is that your employer searches for people who have obtained them. To get ahead, which is what most people look for, one must prove to higher management that one posses the talent that they search for. I believe that as a novice among the business world I have not developed these skills nearly as much as I am capable of. Of the three skills I believe that working as a member of a team is my strongest. I have experience in this role and have studied well in school. As for the other two assets I am still very naïve and unpracticed in both. I hope that through further schooling I can acquire a sense of foundation for these skills, and at the least a direction in which to proceed so that I may develop these skills. Other traits, like golf and public speaking, I also listed because I believe that they are very influential in the business world. Working in a restaurant for six years I am very familiar with that spectrum of business but I lack any ability in golf or public speaking. I am confident that I can learn how to play golf but is an ongoing challenge for me to develop my experience in public speaking. So that I may develop these traits I will continue to put myself in situations that force me to practice and hoan these traits I fall short in. I hope that my perseverance in all this will help me to become a succesful and contributing member to the world of business.