Counter letter
Following the letter you sent regarding the new position, I am delighted to express my gratitude and personal appreciation. I am also grateful for the salary that the organization is offering. However, the salary is well-below the salary I was looking forward to work for. Your company is offering me $ 500, 000 annual salary, which is 25% less than my expected salary. To back-up my salary negotiation, I vividly present my experience, education qualifications, what I will offer to the company as well as other interpersonal efforts that will prove worth improving the salary.
To anchor my proposed salary, I have acquired enough experience to work for this position in this company. From March 2017, I have been working as a cashier at Willo Food Distribution. In this position, I was privileged to handle the company’s cash, credit, and check all transactions with customers. I also issued receipts, change, and refunds to the rightful recipients. I was also responsible for making sales referrals, cross-sell products, and introducing new products. On top of this, I acted as the store manager, where I received goods, packed them, labeled them, and quoted the prices. From this, it’s clear that I have a whole pack of experience to work on the position.
Apart from working at Willo Food Distribution, I have a rich educational background. I have studied at Dunwoody College of Technology, where I majored in Computer Network System and Associate of Applied Science, graduating in May of this year. I also enjoyed a comprehensive scholarship at Fred Christine Meyer Endow School for Women in Technical Careers scholarship. I am excellent in Windows server 2016 & 2012 R2 Administration, Wireshark, AWS, Cisco Packet Tracer, Linux Administration, VSphere, Workstation, ESX, and VMWare. Finally, I can confirm that I am excellent at Windows SQL 2016. In my position, I will be able to apply all of these to oversee the success of the company.
At my position, the company will benefit a lot from the experience and the educational background I have. I am fluent in English, Maymay, Swahili, and Somali. This will benefit the company to increase its customer base as I can serve customers with different languages. Secondly, I have excellent communication and computer skills, which are essential for customer service. Lastly, I personally carry myself in a professional manner that most customers require.
I am also delighted to share another side of my professional achievements. In the year 2017-2018, I was crowned with the Somali Student Association Award. In February 2018, I was rewarded as the student of the month. Later in the year, I was awarded MVP of the week on April 9th, 2018. All these efforts are clear indications that I am a go-getter who does not enjoy comfort zone.
I am looking forward to meeting with the salary regulatory board of the company. I will be delighted to negotiate my salary with the board. In the meantime, I have sent this letter so you can review my proposal in regard to my professional experience, education, and interpersonal skills. If there is any concern, please don’t hesitate to contact me through the attached persona contacts.
Final Reflection
As this semester comes to an end, I am proud of the technical writer I have become. However, the semester has not been a walk in the park. I have intensively wrestled through the content to understand every content to make me a better writer. I have done a lot of research regarding the content to deeply understand the challenging texts. Nevertheless, I have several reflections I can be proud of as we conclude the semester. At the beginning of the semester, I really struggled using technical language. However, this has changed as I can use technical language clearly. Despite having challenges in technical writing, I am happy that I had basic computer literacy that helped me to research to keep improving. Currently, I am fond of using technical language as I am an expert. One of the areas that I have improved is in using Linux Administration.
One of the accomplishments I have achieved this semester is to use Linux Administration. For the better part of the semester, I dedicated it to understanding how to apply the Linux application. Linux administration is one of the computer programs that are essential in accounting. Therefore, I could not rest until I was able to use it as it will be essential software in my bright awaiting career.
From this class, I have learned what to expect in the future and prepare for my career. One thing that I have learned about myself is that I am a dedicated person. This was evident when I was struggling to understand the Linux concept. It was hectic and challenging, where I felt like giving up. However, considering that my career needs the application of this software, I could not rest nor give up until I was able to use the software without difficulties.
In this course, I am delighted to say that I have learned various computer programs in this course. However, Linux software has been my greatest application. In this software, I have been able to practice KashFlow software as it is in line with the career that I aspire to major in future. From the KashFlow software, I am able to create invoices, receipts and send them easily to the appropriate suppliers or customers. These skills are relevant when working as a cashier for any company or ban that will hire my services.
I am proud to say that I have immensely benefited from this class in many ways as a technical writer. First, I have improved my technical writing where I can do a lot of technical writing using computer software among them the KashFlow accounting. Ideally, the class has prepared me to be the worker with the essential skills that the job market demands. The class has transformed me from a student with basic and minor computer knowledge to a pro student who is ready to graduate and starting using the skills to the career that awaits me ahead.
Sincerely yours
Name………………..