A resume is a summary of your educational and professional experiences. A large part of formatting these experiences on a resume is including the dates that they occurred. The question we need to answer with a resume is not only “when?”, but also “for how long?”. How can we answer both of these questions in …
Marcel Iseli
Achieving a CFA designation is no easy feat, and you should be extremely proud to have this experience as a job-seeking employee! In addition to regular job experience, this designation shows that an employee took the extra time to complete additional education, and to further strengthen their skills in the financial sector. It also serves …
A university degree can act as a signal to employers that an applicant is hard-working, dedicated, and skilled. Almost all employers will value an education and be happy to know that their potential employees have attended school. A school e-mail address can be convincing proof that you obtained an education, but is it appropriate to …
There are many reasons that someone may have been in a job for only a month. It may have been a shorter internship, a seasonal or limited-time job, or perhaps they thought this job was not a good fit for them. While it may be true that any experience is good experience, it is not …
With all the loads of emails going to a recruiter’s inbox every day, reading a job post response means skimming through the most important parts only. From the applicant’s perspective, this also means that drafting the email response to make it stand out is meanwhile a challenging task. Email writing, or writing in general, may …
Some words in English always do the same thing. For example, the words “girl” and “boy” are always nouns, and the word “beautiful” is always an adjective. Some words can act as both noun or verb, but it is pretty easy to spot which one they are. For example, “cook” can be a verb meaning …
If you’ve ever written more than a few words in English, chances are good you’ve run into commas. Commas, like it or not, are everywhere. So why are they so hard to understand? The truth is that they’re not. Commas follow a fairly simple set of rules but can be a struggle for many writers …
Jinkies! Zoinks! Jeepers! These words may look like nonsense, but if you’ve ever watched a certain children’s cartoon that features a talking dog and his friends solving mysteries, they’ll be very familiar. Where do words like “jinkies” come from, though? And what do they mean? Let’s find out. What does “jinkies” mean? The answer …
Some people think that the punctuation system requires esoteric knowledge to be fully mastered. Well, that might be the case if we think of it from a pedantic perspective, that the written language ought to be governed by “rigid” rules. Thinking ths way may discourage people from writing, which should not be the case because …