Motivation Letter Application Developer

A good motivation letter for Application Developer connects a concrete personal experience with what the position actually requires - not a summary of the CV. Structure: salutation, a concrete reference to the position or company, a substantiated example from your own experience, an honest closing.

Example

Dear Ms. Meier During my IT apprenticeship (EFZ) at Bedag, I spent four years contributing to a specialist application for the cantonal administration - Java in the backend, Angular in the frontend, around 40 active users daily. What I learned from that was not a language, but how to keep asking a specialist department questions until the requirement is genuinely clear. Your position appeals to me because you build applications for end customers, not just internal tools. In my final apprenticeship project, I reduced the error rate in the ordering process from around eight percent to under one percent through automated tests; this kind of quality-focused work is exactly what I enjoy. You can find my code at github.com/example. I am available immediately or by arrangement and look forward to a personal conversation. Kind regards

Common Mistakes

• Listing twenty technologies without saying what was actually built with them
• No link to GitHub, GitLab or a visible project - for developers this is the most important reference
• Purely technical language, even though HR often reads the application first, not the specialist department
• Playing down the apprenticeship and its projects, even though in Switzerland these count as full professional experience