I was thrilled to find your firm’s advertisement in the Vail Sunday Times, January 12, 2008, for a Senior Winter Events Consultant. My broad management experience in events planning, coupled with my enthusiasm for working in the skiing industry, clearly matches your stated requirements for the ideal candidate to fill this position.

You will want to interview me for the Creative Director position with Starbucks because I have outstanding design/creative skills, am a perfectionist who always strives to improve what I do, and thrive on challenges.

As you are in a position to strengthen your portfolio companies’ growth by influencing their strategic hires, you may be interested in my background. My area of expertise is Internet marketing. As a member of the pioneering Ewire.com team during its rapid rise to a dominant position in e-commerce, I was involved in almost every aspect of Internet marketing and customer acquisition. If you are aware of a company that would benefit from expertise in these areas, please let me know.

Capitalizing on a career that encompasses broad-based experience in brand marketing, public relations, and customer relations, I am seeking an opportunity to apply these skills in a marketing communications position that will offer the potential for advancement based on performance. I believe that I possess knowledge and expertise that can be an asset to your firm and have, therefore, enclosed for your review a résumé that outlines my professional background.

As an experienced Associate Producer with a steadfast career that reflects several years in responsible positions for major clients across new media production, including HBO and Hewlett-Packard, I am enthusiastic about my decision to move my career in the direction of broadcasting.

As a seasoned senior-level marketing professional with client-side, agency, and consulting experience, as well as a background building a spectrum of major organic and natural brands—including Tom’s of Maine, Burt’s Bees, and Nature’s Bounty—I can help Smith & Co. meet the rapid challenges in today’s marketplace.