Business Communication Essentials, 7th Ed.
Chapter 14. Applying and Interviewing for Employment
"I said goodbye to my mouse last month.
"Everyday, each and every one of us interacts with the Cloud in some way.
"I took many writing classes in college but perhaps the most useful was one focused on business writing.
"I enjoy coaching people with their blogging efforts and there are 10 pieces of advice I seem to dispense the most often.
Paul Maccabee (photo, left) is the President of Maccabee Public Relations.
"This assessment of your skills at using PowerPoint will help you understand what skills you need to learn in order to be a more proficient user of PowerPoint for your presentations.
"If you use your resume to apply for published jobs, then it is likely you will be competing with a few hundred other resumes and you can improve your odds of surviving this grueling process by (1) including what most reviewers want to see and (2) eliminating what most of them don't want to see.
According to Robert L.
Alexis Kleinman (photo, left) writes, "With Spritz, which is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Samsung Gear 2 watch, words appear one at a time in rapid succession.
"Workplace lies run the gamut, from small, everyday lies to whoppers, from benign (even helpful) to destructive.
"In a decade of recruiting for countless sales and marketing jobs spanning numerous industries and locations, there is a reliable stable of tricks I’ve seen job seekers use to put themselves ahead of the crowd in any interviewing situation," states Ken Sundheim (photo, left) in a piece featured at PersonalBrandingBlog.
"There’s more information at your fingertips than ever before, and yet people are overwhelmed by it.
"While technology has thoroughly infused the workplace, its strategic adoption and meaningful application by the typical worker is actually just beginning.
"Don't look now, but mobile technology is starting to infiltrate .
Raj Kharmih presents an infographic and short introduction on the topic.
"Many job seekers have described to me that submitting a resume in today's job market is mostly a banging-their-head-against-a-wall, extremely frustrating waste of time," writes Susan P.
""There's something overtly personal about a handwritten letter and it's so rare these days," says etiquette expert Thomas P.
"According to our internal reports, here — in no particular order — are the ten most frequent catches by our editors in your press releases: .
"What do you think of when you hear that someone is “smart?
"Crisis communications practitioners don’t have a choice: they must integrate social networks into their planning or risk having their response to any incident become totally irrelevant," declares Patrice Cloutier (photo, left) in a guest blog at The Crisis Intelligence Blog.
"Want to get ahead?
According to Dean Evans (photo, left), "Poorly written or edited copy will adversely affect how people view your content.
"When it comes to building your personal brand online, you have to constantly examine whether or not you are being presented in the right light.