To Whom It May Concern:

I would like to express my interest in an internship at IR Company. An un-paid internship is part of my bachelor’s degree in International Relations.

After a pleasant e-mail conversation with Mark Brown I am very interested in an internship as a Media Intern at IR Company. I am curious to see how the private sector works with external analysis and reporting, showing how trends and developments in civil society, in cooperation with political and economical concerns, are connected to technological development.

I am very interested in issues such as conditional loans, financing and conflict minerals and how to analyse, write reports and communicate an opinion for decision makers about these topics. I understand that these are sensitive issues because they affect the philosophical and physical development of our world while at the same time having economic and political interests. The fact that IR Company works in a very deliberate manner, connects well with my education and my personal goals: to understand how international processes affect individuals, companies and governments. My studies have developed my abilities to analyse processes in our globalised world and my skill set has a strong connection to IR Company’s work, as I understand it.

My academic education within international relations and human rights is connected to IR Company’s work, particularly my analytical knowledge within politics and economics and my insight into the varied social and cultural values in different countries. Due in part to my previous experience at Laço, where I was a sales manager responsible for tasks such as communicating announcements, I have developed my abilities to communicate and engage with others, two important qualities for IR Company’s relationships with societal contacts. I have even developed a perception of how new processes and new trends arise and influence people’s lives around the world. My skills allow me to relate very well to IR Company’s motto, “Search for and anticipate.”

I can offer IR Company my positive and engaging attitude, my fearlessness when learning new things and my ability to actively use the knowledge I have. If I sum myself up in three characteristics I would choose sense of humour, enterprising and flexible. I am also communicative and pedagogical in written and verbal contexts, qualities I nourished during my work with Laço.

Personally, I enjoy travelling and learning new things. In my free time I golf a lot and I am interested in sailing. I have been active in the Navy’s youth activities and it was during a voyage with the HMS Falcon in 2000 that I became interested in international relations. I participated in Cutty Sark Tall Ships race and it was a tremendous experience to represent Sweden abroad.

I hope I have peaked IR Company’s interest to consider me as a Media Intern this fall.

Sincerely,

John Smith