Sample Cover Letter - Business / Referral
Your Name
Your Address
Your City, State, Zip Code
Your Phone Number
Your Email
Contact Name
Title
Company Name
Address
City, State, Zip Code
Dear Mr/Ms,
Please accept the attached resume for the position of Technical
Business Analyst as recently advertised on Monster.com. I've had the pleasure
to review CompanyName's web site, and to speak with Jane Doe, a colleague at
CompanyName, and am very enthusiastic about the position advertised. I believe
that my combination of technical skills, consulting experience, and business
sensibilities would serve CompanyName well in this position.
My foundation is as a developer, in multiple
languages, on many platforms. If the situation requires getting code done, I
deliver high quality, clean, working code, quickly and correctly. I'm
comfortable with structured code, databases, OO programming, and
"specialty" languages such as might be found in workflow or business
rules systems. I have every confidence that to the extent the position requires
actual coding, I can sling code with the best.
To the extent that the position requires analysis of business
rules and processes, I have specific experience in two main areas that are
closely related. On the analysis side, I was the Product Manager for a large
system. In that capacity I was responsible for extracting functional
requirements from end users, customers, marketing, etc., and translating those
requirements into detailed requirements. On the business rules side, as the
Product Architect for a suite of enterprise systems I led the requirements
definition and vendor and partner review for a collaboration system that
included a business rules engine component. While I was not involved as a
developer in these systems, I am quite familiar with this class of products and
the salient features that define their value.
On a more general level, I believe I bring the broad
"soft" skills you can have confidence in with a candidate that will
represent CompanyName to your customers. I trust you would find me to be
well-spoken, energetic, confident, and personable, the type of person on whom
your customers will rely. I also have a wide breadth of experience of the type
that gives you the versatility to place me in a number of contexts with
confidence that the level of excellence you expect will be met. In most
situations technical decisions must be made within the context of larger
business constraints. Throughout my career I have strived to keep business
issues in the forefront, be it as a developer implementing a test framework to
capture defects as early as possible, or as the Product Manager for an
enterprise system, allocating resources and prioritizing enhancements to meet
strategic objectives. Focusing on business imperatives is a core value of mine,
one that I bring to every project on which I work.
I greatly appreciate you taking the time to review my
credentials and experience. CompanyName's blend of business Strategy, Market
Analysis, and Information Technology is very exciting. I hope that you'll find
my experience, interests, and character intriguing enough to warrant a
face-to-face meeting, as I am confident that I could provide value to you and
your customers as a member of your team.
Sincerely,
Your Name
