No matter how qualified you are for a job or how good or bad your resume is, what the hiring process really comes down to is how you perform in the interview and how you communicate with the hiring manager beforehand. Immediately after inviting you to interview, your potential future employer will begin to assess …
Letters and Emails
After lots of searching, working hard on your resume and several interviews, you’ve finally found a job. You’re settling in, getting to know your coworkers and figuring out where the best nearby lunch places are — when suddenly you hear from your dream job, or at least a better job than the one you have. …
If you have received a scholarship, then first of all, congratulations are in order! One of your next steps should be to write a thank you letter for the scholarship. This is a way of letting the people who contribute to the scholarship that you acknowledge and are grateful for their help. This article will …
When you quit a job, you usually need to let your employers know two weeks ahead of time. This is the standard. There are occasions when you might want to give three or four weeks’ notice. For example, if you have a high-level job or a lot of responsibilities, you may want to give more …
People leave jobs for many different reasons. One of those reasons may be when a better opportunity comes along. That better opportunity could mean that the new job will help you progress in your career, or it could mean that you are getting paid more. It might simply be a job that fits in …
All good things come to an end, as the saying goes, and even if you love a job, there will probably come a time when you are ready to move on. When that happens, it is both courteous and professional to write a resignation letter. As a nanny, this can be particularly tough to write …
Sometimes, life happens and you’re a few minutes late for work, often through no fault of your own. If you are five minutes late once or twice, writing an apology letter could actually backfire. It might come across as a little overly dramatic, which is not a signal that you want to send at work. …
A job rejection could give us one of the most obnoxious feelings in this world because it may stimulate the impression that we may not be good enough for a certain role. But, expectedly enough, most, if not all, people have experienced some form and degree of rejection at least once in their lifetime. That …
We know that abbreviations generally make writing and speaking more convenient and efficient, at least for those highly knowledgeable about these linguistic codes. However, certain abbreviations may also confuse certain audiences, especially when used inappropriately, excessively, and indiscriminately. “V/r” is one of these quite elusive, not to mention divisive, abbreviations, a piece of jargonic terminology …