Servus Zühlke!

A successful relationship can be defined as a relationship in which all involved parties work towards a common goal and benefit in a certain way. These benefits can look differently for each party; e.g. someone wants to learn something new and another one wants to add value or gain more influence. Unfortunately or luckily the perception of the benefits might change and new priorities evolve over time. This adds complexity and uncertainty to the relationship and it has to adapt accordingly. If only one party benefits over a longer period of time, the relationship will fail. I think most of us do have noticed this either in private or professional life. I know, this is a kind of strange introduction for a cover letter and you might ask yourself, what the point is. I want to make it clear now and describe shortly, why I want to leave my current company, in which I am an eminent employee.

I started my career with 20 years at my current company, Infineon Technologies AG, a company which I got to know from my internships. I was really proud of getting a full-time position and was motivated to work my ass of. I also noticed that colleagues who held higher positions had university degrees, which was a part of my motivation to study. My career developed really fast and after a year I was responsible for multiple IT tools which were used by operation teams globally 24/7. I learned so much from the idea of a product to its’ go-live; could participate in global teams and work on latest technologies. Recently I joined a PMI team to take care of a major acquisition and I think I do not need to mention that just a few and only trustworthy employees retrieve such tasks. Everything might seem perfect from outside but for me it isn’t – anymore. Besides the PMI topics, I feel that my learning curve stagnates and I don’t want it to. I get more and more important organizational tasks and the salary increases do not mirror it. Last and most importantly I was astonished when I tripped through South-East-Asia in early 2019 and want to combine my occupation with my desire to learn from new cultures, but my manager wants to keep me in my current role. So this are mostly the reasons why you are currently reading this lines.

I stumbled over your company Zühlke on LinkedIn. I am not sure anymore if it were ads or job openings which retrieved my attention. After some time I took a deeper look into the company profile and it made a solid look to me where I can imagine myself to be part of. For sure there will be other companies out there that would fit too; I would be naive if I would claim it differently. I did not apply at first, instead I contacted an experienced employee, Jochen Reber, to get some more insights. He told me that Zühlke SG focuses on the Finance sector which is a field of private interest to me. I could work within a more customer focused and hopefully less bureaucratic company, get to know a new culture and range of topics whilst contributing my passion for IT and finance to the company. From my perspective there is hardly to find a more experienced enterprise-IT professional my age with business informatics degree who is willing to move based on the company needs between working topics or countries as a whole. For me it is hard to apply to a specific role, because my interests just match more and I could imagine myself also moving to a less technical position. In case you want me in a technical-only position, this is also completely fine for me of course. If this all sounds promising I would really love it to take our endeavor further.