Sample cover letter for Full Time position at Consulting Group

Dear Recruiter

It is a pleasure to write to you and express my interest in the consultant position

offered by Deloitte & Touche's public sector

practice. After speaking with Mr. Patrick

Cline and Mr. Dewey Loselle at the inform

ation session they conducted at Columbia

University's School of International and Pub

lic Affairs (SIPA), I believe that I am well

qualified to perform the work and meet the challenges of your firm.

In May I will receive a Master of Public Administration degree from SIPA, with a

concentration in advanced management

techniques and education policy. These

studies grew out of my education reform

work and new school development in South

Africa. While there, I directed an educa

tion enrichment program that included teacher

training, curriculum development and direct

instruction. It was a formative and

consuming experience which demanded that I

gain the trust of educators, politicians,

parents, and students. The program esta

blished goals, communicated a strategy, and

effected change by building on the stakehol

ders’ strengths. After two years, self-

sustaining reforms were established that continue to benefit children.

While in South Africa, it became clear

that effective school reform depends on

systemic growth in other public sectors, including health services, employment

initiatives, and infrastructure and environmen

tal development. To learn more about

these public services, sharpen my analytical skills, and learn new strategies for

organizational change, I enrolled at SIPA

. Appropriately, I have developed my

abilities in quantitative analysis and financ

ial and organizational management, and

have applied these skills through continued

work with public service organizations.

I would like to apply this experience and sc

holarship to the challenges that face the

public sector and education system and belie

ve that consulting provides an exciting

opportunity to accomplish this goal. With

objectivity, strategic thinking, and an

articulated vision, cooperative change can

happen, and I would like to guide the

direction of this change. It is my sincer

e hope to have the opportunity to do so with

Deloitte & Touche.

Thank you for your time and consideration. En

closed is my résumé, and if you require

any further information, please do

not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

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