Friday, 5 April 2019

Natalie Lamb and the motivation letter

I had to apply for a training course today that required a "motivation letter" as part of the application, a letter stating your motivations for wanting to do the training course. The following is a draft motivation letter that I used for my application.


Draft Letter

With this letter I would please like to state my motivation to attend the COURSE NAME course in COURSE PLACE on COURSE DATE.

This training course will be hugely influential for my research into my RESEARCH FIELD. By the COURSE DATE I will be in a pivotal point of my research, preparing to RESEARCH METHOD. This opportunity to broaden my understanding in the area of COURSE TOPIC will not only help me make key decisions about how my research will progress further but it will also help progress my own professional goals, to learn more about this area, an area I have great interest in but have yet to study further than my own independent research.

I am an especially interested in the session on SESSION NAME held by SESSION LEADER. My RESEARCH TITLE is being completed with EMPLOYER. WHY COURSE IS RELEVANT TO EMPLOYER.

As a special added value of this event I am very much looking forwards to meeting the other professionals from PARTICIPANT CATCHMENT. I really like that the course layout is COURSE LAYOUT STRUCTURE and WHY COURSE LAYOUT STRUCTURE IS SUITABLE FOR YOU. I am eager to contribute my experiences of RESEARCH FIELD, learn about the research of others and hope this knowledge exchange will continue after the course.

In terms of my academic suitability for this course, my knowledge of COURSE TOPIC is strong, although it has more recently been applied to RESEARCH FIELD during my RESEARCH TITLE at EMPLOYER.  Longer ago I studied the more general aspects of COURSE FIELD at UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY with modules such as COURSE MODULES. I do feel that my knowledge and experience is lacking in the area of COURSE FIELD as, for example, I have never COURSE COMPONENT EXAMPLE before. However I feel that this course will help me develop such skills and so is a perfect fit for me.

I would like to say thank you very much for reading this motivation letter.  My attendance at this event would have numerous benefits for me professionally and personally and I would highly appreciate being one of the selected participants.