being enthusiastic, sociable and mature

Hi
Here is the last bit of my supporting letter Hope you have the time to look at this so I can avoid my grammer spelling mistakes.

HARD WORKING AND ENTHUSIASTIC-I always develop a passion and commitment for the area I work in. As a psychology student I became actively involved in the XXXS, and contributed greatly to its success as outlined earlier. I also demonstrated great commitment to XX when working as a volunteer befriender. I entered a contract for one year but continued for another five months.

• Sociable
I have been an active student and been socializing/ networking with students from all backgrounds. While working for the SMG I was offered to attend an international student conference in Madrid arranged by EFPSA. I enjoyed both the academic and social side of the arrangement. In addition, I also have also developed the ability to interact with people with mental health problems having worked as a NAS befriender. In this role I found great use of my active listening skills, patience and humour.

• Mature, responsible, sensitive to ethical issues arising from mental health work
I appreciate the paramount importance of client confidentiality having worked for the XXX as a befriender for a young person with Asperger’s Syndrome. I also understand the importance of ethical guidelines for researchers and I have during my academic studies familiarised myself with the Ethical Principles for Conducting Research with Human Participants by the BPS (1992). Moreover, I received training in the “Ethical Guidelines in market research” during my time as a market researcher and therefore have professional experience of working as a researcher adhering to ethical guidelines.

• Experience of interviewing
I have extensive experience in interviewing having worked as a market researcher. The projects concerned chocolate, airlines and computer game branding. The interviews involved Likert scales as well as closed and open questions. During my dissertation I developed my interviewing skills further; I constructed an interview protocol, conducted and transcribed six one-hour semi-structured interviews and analysed this textual data in accordance with Grounded Theory (Glaser and Strauss, 1967).

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I am available for an interview at any time except 3rd and 4th of August. I am looking forward to hearing from you.