BizCard

Standard cover letters for various audiences:

• U.S. Employer

  
  Hi,
   
    I'm a Sr. SW Engineer in upstate NY applying for the subject job. I am open to being a W2 employee and have done so
    recently though most of my career has been as a contractor, either independent or thru various resellers. Regardless
    of the circumstances of hire/compensation, I retain an entrepreneurial outlook.
  

• General non-IT contract buyer

  
  Hi,
   
    I'm a Sr. SW Engineer in upstate NY. Rate range: from $35/hr for retained support to $75/hr for all inclusive and
    I can normally give fixed cost bids for already well defined tasks. If you are not an experienced technical manager,
    you may want to keep these facts in mind when considering the cost of IT labor: 1) what it costs for other
    skilled/professional labor (e.g. auto mechanics), 2) the well known high risk and failure rate of IT projects;
    with 30 years experience I can often guarantee my work and generally take a fraction of the time of a less experienced
    worker and  3) by low balling your work you may end up paying considerably more or not completing the project at all.
    Also with respect to the focus many buyers have on specific packages, I generally find the time familiarizing myself
    with a new package is a fraction of the time spent analysing the project requirements, existing codebases, etc.
  
     You did not request one or asked for no attachments so no resume is attached but you can easily find to your left.
  
     Availability to accept new clients subject to change without notice (have to say that for legal reasons).
  

• Recruiter or other Job Broker

  
  Hi,
   
    I generally do not deal with third parties. Recruiters who are hired by an Employer on a retainer basis and of course
    in house recuiters are an exception (because technically they're not third parties). Contract shops that aren't 
    essentially labor resellers are also not third parties (in effect thier clients become the third party).