In this blog post, we’ll discuss what experience candidates with limited accounting experience should focus on in their cover letter.
Growing up
“The house with the biggest hands in the neighborhood”
My parents grew up being told that their hands were so big that they were going to run the house. My parents’ personalities are quite different, but I think that point, the love of giving to people, is the same. My parents actually live a life of giving all the time. When I was very young, I grew up in a small town in Tongyeong, and they always gave food to the people in the neighborhood, and if they had something delicious, they shared it, and if they received a gift, they shared it with the people around them, and every month they would make rice cakes or pancakes and give them to the elderly. It wasn’t a volunteer service or relief work as people call it now, but it was just something that my parents did because it was in their hearts, and when they saw elderly people, they wanted to do something for them, and when they saw neighbors who were working hard, they felt better if they could give them coffee. This kind of helping hand didn’t stop when they moved to the city. I know that when they first moved into their apartment, everyone looked at them and said that they were weird, or that they had something up their sleeve, or that they were giving away things like this. But after they realized that my parents were so sincere, they shared and gave, and because of them, there was sharing and cooperation, and we even created a fund to sponsor needy families through the Women’s Guild. Because I grew up with such wonderful parents, I also learned to share, and I have always tried to live a life that knows and practices the joy of sharing.
Personality and Specialties
“I am a person of sense, who is organized and can move quickly”
If there is one thing that makes my personality unique from the rest of my friends, it is that I am “organized” and “moves quickly.” I don’t just go through the motions when it comes to living my life on a daily basis. In college, I became bored with the culture of play and eat and what really got me out of that rut was reading a book about planning. It was called The 333 Rule, and it said that if you decide what you want to do in three hours, write down 30 minutes of tasks to complete in those three hours, and then intersperse those tasks with three minutes of things that you can switch to in case you lose focus, you’re going to be more efficient with your time. When I read that book, I realized, “This is what I want, this is how I want to live my life,” and that’s when I started to plan my days, so to this day, there’s not a day that I haven’t written in my diary, and I always plan my life, and that’s why I’m a fast-moving person in my work, I’m a fast-study person, and I’m able to do a lot of things at once, and that’s why I get told everywhere, “You have sense. I think it’s because they think that I can handle things well at once, and when they entrust me with a task, I don’t forget about it and handle it thoroughly. Therefore, I have good relationships with my professors and people I met while working part-time, and I’m not criticized for not being able to work anywhere.
School life and future aspirations
“I had a deep love for school and academics, to the point that I became a top student”
I majored in business administration, and accounting was my favorite subject. In fact, accounting is often a subject that business students don’t understand and dislike, because in a lecture hall of 250 people, professors teach regardless of whether you understand or not, and no one teaches you like a pair of tweezers anymore, so many people give up on accounting because of this. But for me, it’s a subject that you have to study on your own, and the satisfaction of knowing it well and solving a formula is greater than the memorization and understanding of the subject in college, so I stuck with it and took accounting classes and got my CPA license. Also, I have a deep love for school. I wanted to take advantage of everything the school had to offer, so I took advantage of the scholarship program, the volunteer abroad program, the internship program, and even the athletic discount program to improve myself. I took as many classes as I could because I felt like I was paying for them, and I didn’t miss a single one. I worked hard to build up my credentials through diligence and self-improvement, and when I graduated, I was able to graduate with the prestigious title of vice president of the school and the title of department head.
Volunteering
“Becoming a mentor and realizing my own inadequacies.”
Volunteering is one of the activities I’ve been most passionate about throughout my college career. While my parents’ involvement in a variety of activities had a lot to do with the importance of volunteerism, it was also a result of the lectures I attended. He explained the percentage of people in the world who can go to college, and I thought it was at least 40% because everyone around me is going to college, but he said that only 1% of the world’s population can go to college, and only 1% of the world’s population is going to college, and 99% of the world can’t go to college even if they want to, so the 1% of people must share their blessings and benefits with the 99% of the world. I was really shocked when I heard that, and I thought, “Oh, some things are just handed to you, and you have to work for them, and you have to struggle for them.” So I started mentoring. So I started to mentor my friends who were in difficult circumstances, who were on probation for wandering, and sometimes I was hated by them for no reason, and sometimes I was frustrated because they didn’t talk to me, but I reached out to them with my heart and told them what I knew and tried to listen to their stories, and one by one, they opened up to me, and I became more responsible and tried to be sincere, and I still keep in touch with them to this day, and now I try to have a relationship with them that is more like a friend than a mentor.
Application Motivation and Aspirations
“I will be sincere unconditionally”
I am a newcomer. I have an accounting qualification, I know the theory behind it, and I’ve done a little bit of accounting through internships, but I haven’t started working in a company yet, so I’m probably completely new. No matter how good I try to be, I might seem overwhelming and I might have to spend a lot of time trying to understand the framework. But that’s who I am, and that’s why I’m ready to be broken. I’m going to be the kind of employee who clearly recognizes what I don’t know and works diligently on that basis, making sure I’m corrected on what I don’t know, and working with my nose to the grindstone on what does and doesn’t fit in with the herd and knowing the company vibe. I promise to be unconditionally sincere. Thank you very much.
