Motivation Letter Data Analyst

A good motivation letter for Data Analyst 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 Mr. Marti During my internship at a retail company, I analyzed the return rate by product category and store. One category stood out with a threefold higher rate - the cause turned out to be a misleading size specification in the online shop, not the product itself. After the correction, the rate in that category dropped by around 40 percent within two months. This is the kind of work I am looking for: not producing reports, but investigating why a number looks the way it does. I work with SQL daily and build my dashboards in Power BI. I have published an anonymized example at example.ch/portfolio so you can assess my way of working. I look forward to a conversation. Kind regards

Common Mistakes

• Tools are named, but not a single insight that resulted from using them
• No portfolio or example dashboard, even though this profession makes it easy to show one
• Data protection is not mentioned, even though it has been a standard topic in Switzerland since the FADP revision
• Study projects are dismissed as 'just theory' instead of being used as a work sample