Sample cover letter for Internship position at ACME Plc

Dear Ms Robinson

Further to your advertisement on the website planetrecruit.com and in today’s Telegraph, I wish to apply for the post of Product Development Manager.

I am a Dutch national currently studying for a Masters in Business Administration at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. You will see from the attached CV that I have ten years’ commercial experience. This included five years as Sales Manager for Bluechip Software NV, during which period I expanded the sales for eight out of ten top accounts by at least 20% year on year.

My managerial responsibilities in this recent role included the recruitment and performance management of a sales team of twenty. I was able to significantly develop my skills as a hands-on manager.

My recent move to achieve the MBA qualification reflects my growing interest in strategic marketing and the desire to develop my skills relevant to other industry sectors. This role in your company appeals to me because it provides the opportunity to apply my business development experience to the automotive sector which, being characterized by longer lead-in times and intense global competition, will test my ability to re-position Car Brand X within key European markets.

I can be contacted for interview at any time using my mobile phone number and I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely