In this post, our experts in Application support provided you with the most important does and do’s and don’ts of an Application letter.

The university administration that screens the application needs to know your reason for applying (motivation) for their study program. That is why it is very important to prepare a comprehensive and eye-catching application (Equity Research Cover Letter/motivation letter) when you send your application. In many cases, the main text of the email that you send to the professor is acting as an Equity Research Cover Letter.

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Equity Research Cover Letter: How to write a strong Application Letter?

You should know that a high-ranked University Professor generally receives between 50 to 200 emails of Equity Research Cover Letters per day (depending on the seniority and fame). So, they do not have time to read all your emails (maybe they devote a few seconds to your email).

You should prepare your email so well to convince him/her to continue reading your email further and even open the attached CV that you sent. There are some hints that we summarised here in order to get the most out of this chance. First, we start with mistakes that you should avoid otherwise your email Equity Research Cover Letter will land in the trash/spam of the host professor.

Never do:

  • Never send the same email of Equity Research Cover Letter to many professors at a time! We have seen that many applicants send emails starting with terms such as “Respected Professor”! That is a fatal mistake meaning that you send this email at a time to many recipients (professors).
  • Never write statements such as “I am interested in Physics, Chemistry, Biology” or some similar generic subjects. The recipient of the email (professor) has very particular expertise on some specific subject (e.g. Low-temperature STM or  Leidenfrost Chemistry etc.) and is interested to see if you have some similar background.
  • Never write a long email with an Equity Research Cover Letter as a starting point. For PhD or Postdoc applications, never discuss your high school activities in the cover letter (contact email).

There are some particular points that you should consider when contacting a professor to enquire about a position in his/her group.

To do:

  • Address the name of the professor to show him that you are sending this email exclusively to him. This can be done as “Dear Professor XX“.
  • Introduce yourself by mentioning which qualification you have. Do not list all you have in your CV but write only the top achievements that you think match to the research activities of the host professor. For instance: “I am XXX, a graduate student from Gent University, who has been working on atomic force microscopy (AFM) in the last 3 years and have published 2 articles on AFM in Journal of X and Y…“.
  • Then, explain why you are writing to him/her by stating the major activities of the host professor. The best action would be if you write a sentence about the particular subject that the host professor (and yourself) is interested in and have some articles on that subject. For instance, you can write: “I have read your recent article on AFM published in Journal of X wherein the correlation of morphology of Graphene and the deposition condition was discussed.”.
  • Finish your short email of Equity Research Cover Letter by expressing how your expertise matches his/her research activities. For instance, you can write: “My MSc project on microscopic analysis of Graphene shows that the morphology depends not only on the fabrication method but the environment temperature. So, I would like to explore this effect under AFM in your team as a world-leading group of Graphene characterisation in the frame of a PhD project.“

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