humbly ambitious cover letter for riot games
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Ethan, Neo Kai Way
23rd Jan 2016
Job Application
Riot Games: Publishing Manager
Ethan NeoNanyang MBA,
Entrepreneur,
Adventurer,
Gamer
WHO IS THIS GUY?
FAVORITE ACTIVITY:
To learn, see & understand the
different lives people live.
ASPIRING SINGAPORE RIOTER
1. FOREWORD
2. INTRODUCTION
3. I AM….
4. I WILL….
5. ALIGNMENT TO RIOT MANIFESTO
Foreword
Felt that my cover letter was a bit too lacking of creativity & too conventional. When I first
saw Riot’s Manifesto, I was surprised at how much I can relate and how close these values
are to mine, hence I wanted to address this problem by sending an additional cover letter
before the interview.
Hope that this Unique cover letter can provide information to how much a Rioter I am and
provide a difference experience from the routine cover letters & CVs in a humbly ambitious
way to delight and surprise.
Regardless, I hope riot can enjoy this cover letter as much as I enjoyed doing it. Looking
forward to the online interview on Monday.
INTRODUCTION
Academic Background
Top 200 Universities in the world
Bachelor of Science
Business Management
Achieving 2nd Upper
Diploma In Accounting &
Finance
World Ranked 38th for MBA
Nanyang MBA Candidate
Strategy & Innovation Track
Professional Background
Sun Gee Travel Pte Ltd is
a Bus/Transport & Tour Agency
(Over 130 Bus Fleet, Clientele:
Marina Bay Sands)Singapore Police Force
Airport Police Operations &
Training Department
Achievements
High Service Standards &
Recognition from Marina Bay
Sands Management & 2000 Employees
Main Transport Contractor till date.
Tropical Rubber is the largest Scrap
Tire Recycling/Collection Firm
Singapore) (Recycling up to
1000 tons of Scrap tires/Monthly)
Achievements
Turn Around Company in 6 months
Humble profits till date.
Still the largest tire recycling firm today.
Achievements
Inspector Rank (National Service)
Best Officer of the Year - 2009
Arrested, Handcuffed Criminals
Non-Academic Background
Track & Field
School team – Secondary
school
Ranked 34 Nationals 800m
MBA Olympics – 4x200m
relay Gold
Social Causes
Mentor For Youth Social
Enterprise
Regional Finalist for Hult
Prize –
Social Sustainability
Business Plan
Competition
Student Leadership
NYP Student Union
EXCO
Honorary General
Secretary
Chairperson - JAM & HOP
(School Wide)
Chairperson - Sports Fiesta
Co Chair
Entrepreneurship &
Marketing Club
(NANYANG MBA)
The Gamer Inside
List of Favorite Games
All Final Fantasy Series
Suikoden Series
Tales Series
Pokemon
Xeno Series
Mass Effect
Kingdom Hearts
Diablo
Breath of Fire
Chrono Series
Fav Genre of GamesMostly RPGStory Focused
MOBA League of Legends
DOTA 2
Mobile Games with friends
Total Games OwnedMore than 400.
Consoles
PSP, 3DS, Wii, PS3, PS2, PS, Sega
Saturn, SNES, Xbox 360
Achievements
Diablo 3Made 3000+USD in 3 weeks
upon launch stopped for my
undergrad Exams
DOTA 2 World Ranked 195th Lone Druid
1 years back
I AM ….
Experienced
EDUCATION(MBA)
➔ Analytics For Decision
Making
➔ Marketing – Most Astute
Marketing Strategist (MBA)
➔ Leading People Globally
➔ Technology
Management
PROFESSIONAL
➔ An Entrepreneur
➔ 300000SGD net monthly from MBS
Project & Tropical Rubber.
➔ Proven results
➔ Experience working closely
with international Companies
like Marina Bay Sand,
Government agencies, Police
force and start up
environment
Educated
Nanyang MBA(Strat & Inno)
➔ Corporate Governance & Ethics
➔ SPAN Project – Consulting project for
Mobile Phone Company
➔ Talent Management
➔ Economics & Market
➔ And More….
Bachelor (Biz Mgt)
➔ Business strategy
➔ Project management
➔ Management Research Project
➔ Entrepreneurship
➔ Managing Change
➔ Operations and Technology
➔ Management
Recognizing the need to maneuver and adapt to the markets & technology and continuously pursuing education & self-development.
Multilingual Communicator
Soft
➔ Listening is the key to
communication.
➔ Honest and Sincere
➔ Fact Driven
➔ Asking the correct questions
Professional
➔ International Companies
➔ International MBA Network
➔ Business Negotiations
➔ Sales & Business Development
Its not what you say, its what they Hear
“Charlotte Beers” The most powerful woman in advertising
An Informed strategist
EDUCATION
➔ Business Strategy
➔ Strategic Management
➔ Study of War (decision
Making Process)
PROFESSIONAL
➔ Tropical Rubber – Experienced Manager quit within 2 months of
Start up. No Training, No network, No experience in
recycling industry. 5 months of no revenue.
1. Understand the Situation
2. Formed a committed Team to relentlessly solve problems
3. Build competencies, service standards & secure contracts of
scrap tire supply
4. Strategic Alliance with competitors with competencies
5. Business Development
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.” —Jack Welch
Data Driven
EDUCATION
➔ Analytics For Decision
Making
➔ Anyone can analyze but not everyone can articulate meaningful & strong insights to data & KPI
“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like
deer on a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore
Jetsetter
EDUCATION
➔ 20 Nationalities in Nanyang MBA
Player-Focused
As a gamer, these are the list of issues to name a few, I believe Singapore players care about.
1. Gameplay
2. User Interface
3. Ease of Purchase
4. Graphic
5. Story/Lore
6. Customization
7. Difficulty of game
8. Entry Level of game
9. Music
10. Lag
1. Social
2. Community
3. Vanity
4. Rank
5. Skills
6. Teamwork
7. Winning
8. Sense of achievement
9. Experience
10. Innovation
1. Watching Streams
2. Esports Teams
3. Competitions
4. Participating
5. Betting on games
Top 10 Game Focus Top 10 Player Focus Top 5 other Experiences
I WILL….
Conduct Market Research
Key Strengths
➔ Educated
➔ Experienced
➔ Committed
➔ Primary Research
➔ Secondary Research
➔ Understanding of Business &
Games
Creativity & Communication – What People Say
Ulrike Marianne Murfet
Senior Lecturer
Division of Strategy
Nanyang Business School
Head of the
Communication
Management Group
Derrick Lam
Manager(Outreach)
People’s
Association
Ex- Colleague
Neo Kai Way is an all-rounder in
communication, but the traits that
left a deep impression on me are
that he is ‘powerful’, ‘innovative’
and ‘credible
His out of the box(to him, there is
no box in the first place) mindset
and ideas often open up our
otherwise myopic and limiting
visions.
He has a strong set of core values
and principles which he strongly
believes in, honesty & integrity is
top of his chart. He is also very
open and transparent with his
intentions.
Kai Way is a captivating public
speaker who conveys his ideas
with logic and passion. His
arguments are sound, and any
claims carefully supported with
hard facts. But Kai Way is also a
wonderful story teller who can
bring to life even the most
abstract of concepts.
He spots the unusual angle, sees
what others would not notice and
skillfully weaves humour, emotions
and suspense into his
presentations without sacrificing
logical rigour. He is truly a creative
and confident communicator.
The Rest of the Scope
• Facilitating relationship with Local Publishers – Garena
• Manage a team of Community Coordinators
• Manage Marketing & business development relationship
• Help Country Manager(Benjamin Pommeraud, Amazing Person)Identify & evaluate or develop Talents.
Alignment to Riot Manifesto
I’m commitment to Players/Gamers
I’m a Out of the Box Thinker/Strategist
I’m a result driven & success proven
Entrepreneur.
400 Games owned. 7 Consoles
I’m 100% Humbitious to join Riot
Values
What People Say - Clients
Stella Siak
Marina Bay Sands
Ex-HR Manager
Executive Director
Talent Quotient Pte
Ltd
Richard Goo
Executive Director
Yong Fong Rubber
Industries Sdn Bhd
(Top 50 SME in
Malaysia)
Client
He is a passionate, aggressive
personnel towards his aim. He is
strong in both oral and written
communication.
Strong analytical Skill and
rationale thinking are also strength
that I can observed.
He is leading a team which I
perceived as effective & efficient
as a client point of view.
1. Ethan is an independent and responsible
manager, a fast learner and also has
imitative to suggest solutions for
problems.
2. It is not an easy job to provide
transportation for more than 5000
employees working at marina bay sands,
a customer service oriented manager
that treated employees with respect and
care.
3. An intelligent manager who thinks in an
entrepreneur way – both to minimize
losses and also give good service to
marina bay sands.
4. I really salute to Ethan's commitment and
resilience as he worked more than 17hrs
during opening to ensure that the
employees transportation problem were
resolved and kept the employees happy.
Closing Notes