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To someone that will give me the chance:

My name is Julie Krebs. I am 21 years old and I graduated from Florida State University 5 days ago with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. I live in Florida with my boyfriend, Nicholas, and our two cats – Calypso and Taylor. I understand that this reads the same as the autobiographies I would write when I was 10 years-old, except this time, I am not including a list of my hobbies (painting and writing); my hobbies are painting and writing.

         This would usually be the portion where I would talk about my hero, but I literally have a cat named Taylor. I feel like stating my role model would be overkill, at this point. Regardless, I did grow up with someone special. I grew up with someone who would shape me into the kind-hearted person that I pride myself on today. I grew up with someone who taught me about the depth and intelligence that passion has to offer. I never knew what my calling was. I knew I had a love for Taylor Swift, cats, and Marvel. I knew I wanted to celebrate inclusivity and tell everyone that “I can do it.” I mean, I can do it. But, I never knew what it was. In senior year of high school, you are given this brief period of time where you have to decide how the rest of your life will go. *Insert panic here* My personality was a mix between saving every email from Taylor Nation as if it were an actual message from Taylor and makeup. Somewhere along the line I stumbled into watching the Director of Marketing at Sephora share what she loves with people who feel the same way. Even better – I watched as she opened the door to those who had not yet discovered their passion for her product.

         That’s what it boils down to – passion. Similar to my apparent love for hyphens and appropriate, workplace humor, I couldn’t shake the thought that I needed to have one thing. I needed to achieve that goal of working somewhere I am incredibly passionate about. My goals just happen to be your place of work. Your home away from home. A place that you know like the back of your hand (and every other metaphor), because hopefully, you are just as passionate. You are passionate about its education, inspiration, hope, and messages that are brought to light by what you do.

         As a marketer, the first thing I have to do is market myself. I would like to begin by introducing you to my Taylor Swift Wikipedia that lives rent free in my head. It’s really that simple. You play a song, I sing along to every word. You ask a question, I shamelessly recite my facts that others need to Google. A passerby might call my dedication “trivial,” but as I sit here, longing to secure my dream job in the form of a love letter, it seems rather imperative. It’s rather interesting, because I didn’t actually need to spend all this time “studying Taylor Swift” or sitting down to memorize her songs. I simply just grew up with her influence. She was like a friend. There was no desire to dress like her or achieve stardom with my imaginary stage talent. She was just a good person and I happened to just really believed in her morals.

         Attached, you will see my resumé. It shows I went to college to receive a diploma that won’t even be in my possession until June-ish. It also features my volunteer work with Relay for Life and my local dance studio where these parents trusted me to teach their five-year-old’s how to do gymnastics, tap, and ballet without getting hurt. I don’t know why, I was not trained in any sense. What is not on my resumé was my one-week gig at PacSun. I handed in my negative 1 week notice due to the boss scheduling me during my college lectures; however, I did get really good at folding! I felt guilty by excluding that fact. Lastly, you will see my yearlong internship with NantHealth. I was the marketing team’s only intern but due to the pandemic, they were unable to offer me a full-time job. Times are hard, but everyone gave me the warmest goodbye and a dozen emails for references. They talked about how unfortunate it was, but I am quite grateful for the outcome. I had an amazing opportunity, but I didn’t get stuck. I can take my knowledge and bring it outside of the world of healthcare – which just wasn’t really my endgame (genuinely, no pun intended). Anyways, I guess that would make this my cover letter. Not really what I pictured my first cover letter looking like. My business communications professor would be severely disappointed. He would probably take off ten points for every hyphen, but that’s just not how real life works.

         I don’t know if you guys are hiring – let alone if you hire, but I really hope this gets through. I hope I chose the right words that could never do justice to how I feel. I hope I didn’t choose too many or too little pages to offer the sentiment that I am dedicated and hardworking. At the very least, I hope one of my jokes made you smile.

Thank you for your time, Julie Nicole Krebs