Professional Experience

Hobbies and Professional Interests

Basketball, swimming and reading books in management and strategy

Personal Achievements - Member of 1982-1983 and 1984-1985 Champion Team at High Schools and Junior Basketball Teams Championships, Turkey

-Best junior forward of the year 1983, Turkey

-Being in top 1% at 1985 University Entrance Exam among 650.000 participants, Turkey.

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III. Business letters

The various organizing, processing managing and transport efforts of the businessman and industrialist lead to and grow out of the sales process. Everyone engaged in business, whether active in the sales process or not, must orient his work to the fact that some day, somewhere, what he is doing will have to be sold. So we shall show you how business letters of different types must be written.

I. Introducing your firm (the body the message of a letter).

(First of all describe the firm and its goals)

…Foundation, which was recently established under the name of (…), aims to give engineering community in all countries of the world attractive information on the state of the science and technology in the country.

We pride ourselves on providing all our customers with the highest quality production and personalized service. So that you may know a little more about our Company, I am taking the liberty of enclosing a booklet, which we have recently published, giving the history, organization and plans of our Company.

Please let me know what information would be of interest to your Company and whether you would like to receive any of our catalogs…

II. Official Invitations

All visits exchange begin from invitations. (May I have the pleasure of inviting you… (may I cordially invite you) to visit our firm?)

-We should like to arrange for a visit of Mr. N (name, position) to Russia.

-We are looking forward very much to welcoming you here as a guest of our

firm …

Usual form in accepting official invitation:

-Mr. N thanks the (name of institushion or person) for its kind invitation to (occasion) to be held at (address) on (day, date) which he has pleasure in accepting. Usual form in refusing official invitations:

-Mr. N thanks the (name of institution or person) for its kind invitation to (occasion) to be held at (address) on (day, date), but regrets he is unable to accept owing to …(his poor health, a prior engagement, etc.)

Dear Dr. Novikov

I wish to inform you that the X International Conference on “Russian Accountant Standards” will be held in St. Petersburg 18-20 August.

It is my honour and privilege to invite you and your wife to participate in the work of the Conference. I am happy to inform you that the organizing Committee will cover your and your wife’s traveling expenses and hotel accommodation fees.

We are looking forward to your accepting this invitation and seeing you and your wife at the Conference.

Trusting to hear from you soon,

Sincerely yours

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