Dear Friends

Recently we had a dicussion in the group about attitude of students passing out
of premier colleges. I wish to highlight an email communication between a
student and PR executive

The incident:

A Communication student from a well known Chennai college called our
Moderator Mr K. Srinivasan over phone ten days back and wanted a PR internship.
Mr Srinivasan asked her to send her profile to his e mail id. The student sent
her profile as attachment without any request for internship or covering mail.

Though, her mail had only her profile as attachment, Mr Srinivasan forwarded her
profile to me and to Sakthi with a request to help her to get an internship.
He also endorsed a copy to her with a request to contact both of us over mobile
with more details.

Since, she did not contact either of us for a week, Sakthi sent a mail to the
student. I reproduce below Sakthi's mail and her response. I have suppressed
the name of the student and the college.

Sakthi's mail to the student:

Dear XXXXXXXX,

This is further to the email sent by Mr. Srinivasan regarding your internship.
Have you got any internship or still looking out? pls let me know.

Regards,
Sakthi Prasanna.

The response by the student:

"I havent got a conformation yet. I am waiting for it. I have applied in XXXXXXX
& XXXXX. I am also interested in PR. If i can join your company I would like to
know my work profile or what will be my work contribution and other details. My
contact no is 9xxxx xxxxx."

(The student's mail did not even contain customary words like dear so and so or
hi or even regards, as it was official and for the first time. The response
also lack politness, when she seeks an internship. She does not even request an
internship. It looks as though, she is going to honour the Agency by joining
there as intern. Further She has provided her contact number probably expecting
Sakthi to contact her and explain the job profile.)

Though Mr Srinivasan had asked her to contact us over mobile, she did not
contact for a week. Atleast on receipt of Sakthi's mail, she should have
contacted him over phone for guidance.

Nowadays, many of the mails received from the young students lack humility and
politeness. I am sharing this communication with all, so that young students
should learn to write good letters/mails. They should develop good communication
skills when they write formally.

Even the educational institutions should devote some classes to teach 'Business
communication skills'.

Request members to share their views.

Best regards
Narren