Statement of Purpose

Statement of Purpose

Statement of Purpose and Letter of Intent are something which are more or less the same thing. I see a lot of questions and posts being made on mailing lists regarding help with Statement of Purpose and Research Proposals, CV and the preparation of various other documents required for securing admission for higher studies or securing a job. Well in this regard I want to offer my services ( Fee Sabeel Allah) to anyone who may wish to avail them.

Please note a few things:

1. I will not provide you with a sample SOP or Research Proposal
2. Do write the best possible SOP, CV or Research Proposal in light of your past experience and the place where you are applying and than I can review or revise it for you for any grammatical or technical mistakes
3. Your privacy will be maintained and your document (specially personal information) will not be forwarded to anyone else
4. Please do note that it can take a maximum of 7 days and a minimum of 2 days to fix the document – depending on availability of time.

Incase you need help with writing the SOP or the Letter of Intent the following links could be quite helpful:

http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/5353/classes/purpose.html
http://www.princetonreview.com/grad/apply/articles/application/purpose.asp
http://career.berkeley.edu/Grad/GradStatement.stm
http://education.yahoo.com/college/essentials/articles/grad/writing-statement-of-purpose.html
http://www.rfp-templates.com/How-to-Write-a-Letter-of-Intent.html
http://www.statementofpurpose.com/
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gcallaghan/graduate/winningstatement.htm
http://www.princetonreview.com/grad/apply/articles/application/purpose.asp
http://www.infozee.com/application-issues/essays-sop.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Statement-of-Purpose
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~whuang/other/purposeadvice.html
http://ogs.ucsd.edu/admissions/application/statement/
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/5353/classes/purpose.html
http://www.rahber.org/essays/
http://www.pakscholars.org/austria/index.asp?MID=40
http://www.essayedge.com/promo/samplework.shtml [Contributed by: Ozair Kafray – ozair.kafray@gmail.com]
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Overvu.html [Contributed by: Ozair Kafray – ozair.kafray@gmail.com]

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Tricks for SOP

Tricks for SOP

“Syed Muhammad Raza Kazmi” <syed.raza.kazmi@gmail.com>

0. Before starting, you must have some idea what you want to do in your higher studies… not very exact but still there should be some inclination of your heart n mind.1. The first step is to fish a Professor – your intended supervisor of your research work. How to find that Professor??? Well there are two ways I can think of: 1). If you’ve read some research papers during the course of your study, or the text book etc, then the author (if his work has inspired you) can be your intended supervisor. I think this method must be adopted if one is going for PhD studies. 2). Goto the sites of famous universities and browse for the webpages of the department you want to get in. Browse further into the profile of various professors and find those whose research interests match yours, or inspire you. You must sort out the professor in the University whose research enchants you. This requires just one day’s web browsing of Japans different universities’ laboratories. Unlike Pakistan, in the rest of the world the Universities are known by their location, so you can easily search for Tokyo, Tohoku, Kyoto Universities etc etc.

2. Now very carefully you have to write your Research Proposal. It is not at all difficult, firstly because it is not required to be very specific one and secondly if you have the aptitude for the Masters or PhD then naturally you must have some inclination towards a certain area. After the completion of the task 1. stated above you already have targetted a professor of similar research interest, also you have got some idea about the type of research going on in his lab. So the trick is that you write a research proposal that shows your interest to be similar to the lab’s research themes. Better if you can extrapolate by conceiving the future advancement that can be done in the on going research in that lab, showing that you can be a very useful member to the Professor’s research team.

3. The number 2. is I think the easiest way to flourish an SOP, specially for those like myself who are not extraordinarily brilliant enough to propose and advocate their own course of research separate from the lab’s interest. One may do so but there are a few risk involved, the biggest of which is that if your proposal is too far away from the lab’s interest then the Prof may not take you due to the unavailability of some special equipment essential for your research theme, or due to the lack of expertise of the research staff who are suppose to provide you with guidance. So its always safe to enter as a part of the existing team instead of making your own.

You are most welcome to try more than one Universities.

Another very important advice that I want to give as a big brother to all the Job seekers and Advanced Study Enthusiasts… Kindly for God Sake please dont send the one-liner type of emails saying “Find my attached CV” or “Consider me for the job”. Your email suppose to act as your cover letter which should be convincing enough for the potential employer to choose and open your CV among the hundreds he receive. It shows your presentation and communication skills also.

May God Bless the youth of Pakistan with the best of health, wisdom, prosperity and faith.

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Job websites for Denmark

http://www.maersk. com/mitas

http://www.jobbank.dk
http://www.monster.dk
http://www.jobindex.dk
http://www.stepstone.dk
http://www.jobnet.dk
[Courtesy: Umair Dar-umairbsc@yahoo.com]

http://www.jobzonen.dk
http:// www.adecco.dk
http:// www.manpower.dk
[Courtesy: M.Farhan Azeem-nc_farhan11@yahoo.com]

http://www.it-jobbank.dk/Default.aspx
http://www.itu.dk/studiejob/index.php?men=1
http://www.jobsafari.dk
http://www.jobsincopenhagen.com
http://www.it-jobbank.dk/
[Courtesy: Izhar Hussain – izhar_kashmir@yahoo.com]

Incase if you do not understand Danish than you can use the online translator provided on http://www.gramtrans.com

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Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow rich I think is a great book for personal development. Here are a few links on the web which provide access to the free PDF book and also the audio version of the book.

Talking Book Store
Simply Audio Books
Learn Out Loud
thehouseofojaah
Nightingale
Self Starters

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Hello world!

I have been thinking for a long time to use the WordPress to make the information more widely available which I want people to know. Though I also have a website by the name of saadrahman.com but I guess wordpress would be much easier and more manageable for a person like me who likes to write more and to do less with the backend tools of websites.

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