Sample cover letter for Internship position at Credit Suisse

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am currently in my second year reading Mechanical Engineering (MEng) at Imperial College London. I attended a Credit Suisse Technology Innovation Challenge and was impressed with your culture and working strategy. Therefore, I am writing to express my interest in obtaining a place in the Credit Suisse spring insight week.

Through the spring week in order to acquire a holistic and detailed view on Credit Suisse’s different divisions, financial strategies and work ethic. I believe Credit Suisse would enable me to have a global view of the banking industry during the week due to its international presence in all current affairs. The fact individuality and independent thinking are promoted at Credit Suisse makes it a challenging and consequently motivating working environment to work in. At present, I am interested in asset management as well as trading and structuring. Through this week I hope to gain a valuable understanding on the differences between the long-term, global perspective nature of asset management and the fast paced, technical aspect of trading and structuring. However, I still maintain an open mind towards other divisions.

Through my engineering degree I have acquired an analytical and disciplined approach to problems, which I believe can contribute to the diversity of perspectives needed when dealing with complex issues. I have also led a group of ten in the design and commercialization of a product as part of a mini-enterprise year-long project. This project taught me to take initiative as a leader and to include the whole team to achieve a common goal. We had constant contact with clients whilst selling our product but we also delivered presentations to stockholders, which developed two types of communication skills. Due to the perseverance we demonstrated as a team we were able to finish with 20% profit.