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A Speculative Letter Looking for Employment
Many people have obtained employment by making a speculative approach to a company. One of the advantages of applying in this manner is that you are far less...
Accepting a Job Offer
Being offered a job which you have applied for is one of life’s more pleasurable experiences. In most cases you’ll receive notification of the offer in w...
Declining a Job Offer
If you are offered a job which you have applied for in the majority of cases, you will almost always write back and accept the offer as you’ll have most pr...
Is Your Job Search Cover Letter Effective?
It’s scary to contemplate but a good cover letter could be the only thing standing between your written application for a job and getting a chance to sell...
Letter Informing of Your Retirement
Most employees who have made plans to retire imminently will have already notified their boss or immediate superior verbally of their intentions to do so a f...
Letter Regarding Employees Conduct
Disciplinary issues within the workplace have to be dealt with extreme caution by an employer. The disciplinary procedures within a company must comply with...
Letter Requesting a Pay Rise or Promotion
If you are considering putting in a written request for a pay rise or a promotion with your employer the way you word the letter is not only going to determi...
Letter to HR Informing Them of a Dispute
From time to time disagreements may arise in the workplace. Quite often, they can result from a misunderstanding or for some other minor reason and can be re...
Offering Your Services as a Voluntary Worker by Letter
People often want to volunteer their services for free for a number of reasons. They may have a great deal of empathy for the work being carried out by a par...
Quiz: Are Your Office Memos Effective?
An office memo, sometimes also known as an internal letter, is a specific type of communication between or for the employees at a given organisation. It’s...
Rejection Letter
Any letter that contains bad news always requires much more of a tactful approach when composing it than one expressing joy and it becomes even more complex...
Replying to a Job Advertisement
When an employer places a vacancy in the jobs section of the newspaper or on the internet, it will usually attract many applicants and, in some cases, far mo...
Requesting a Reference by Letter
We’re all too familiar with the concept that no job is for life these days and it’s more than likely that we are going to have numerous jobs throughout o...
Requesting Feedback After Rejection by Letter
If you have set your heart on a particular job vacancy and have been through the entire process of filling out an application form then attending an intervie...
Resigning by Letter
There are numerous reasons for wanting to write a letter of resignation. Usually it will be because you have found another job. Other reasons may be that you...
Writing a Covering Letter
A covering letter should always be included when you are sending additional information to a company. More commonly associated with applying for a job - in t...