I am pleased to be writing you today to express my interest in the Marketing Associate position that is listed in the General Mills careers database. I am a graduating senior at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Business pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Marketing and International Business. I strongly admire the passion, innovation, and creativity that General Mills holds so dear, and believe that my talents, interests and personality will mend well and develop within the position of Marketing Associate.
My experiences have positioned me well to enter the Marketing workforce. To begin, my Marketing and Communications Summer Analyst position at Accenture exposed me to a wide range of internal and client facing work focusing on project and budget management, business analysis, and plan
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While a sizeable portion of my experience revolves around facts and analysis, I have been able to bring a unique creative facet into my work through my out-of-the-box thinking style. These creative and technical talents also manifest in the development of a mobile application that I have been working on in my free time; something to connect ideators throughout the world in the most open way. I also have a personal understanding of aspects of the food industry and how important a passion for nurturing the world is. This is because I helped my mother open her own traditional Eritrean Bakery, something that she has dreamed her whole life about. I work on the management, logistics and legal aspects of her business and I am incredibly proud of her success for something that she is so deeply passionate about: sharing her culture through food. For this reason, I have even more respect for what General Mill brings to the world and I sincerely hope to expand on this passion and continue this learning process as Marketing