{"id":14083,"date":"2017-05-08T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backtobasicslearning.com\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2017-05-08T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:03:21","slug":"job-search-superior-writing-skills-can-tip-the-scales-in-your-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/job-search-superior-writing-skills-can-tip-the-scales-in-your-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Job search? Superior writing skills can tip the scales in your favor!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Why<\/a>Newly minted college grads may be well versed in their individual fields of study, but they often share a common deficiency in their education.\u00a0According to the\u00a02016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report<\/a>, hiring managers said writing was the hard skill most lacking in new grads<\/strong> (beyond data analysis, industry-specific software, or coding).<\/p>\n

As new grads enter the workforce, they may find, often to their dismay, that writing requirements don\u2019t end with in-class essays and semester-long research papers.<\/p>\n

In fact, writing can make \u2014\u00a0or break<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 a career.<\/p>\n

In a recent article for Money<\/a> magazine, author Hannah Morgan goes so far as to include writing skills as one of the top 9 skills job seekers should master<\/em>, “Every email or pitch you deliver needs to be clear, concise and relevant to your target audience (potential employer). Now is the time to learn how to craft attention-grabbing email subject lines, succinctly highlight the most compelling benefits of hiring you and by all means, use your email signature to link to your online portfolio or LinkedIn profile. The best way to demonstrate you have exceptional communication skills is to prove it during your job search.”<\/p>\n

What are the common writing pitfalls, and how can new grads avoid them?<\/h4>\n

\u201cIncorrect grammar, spelling and language usage can make a very bad impression. Using an informal style \u2014 relying on abbreviations, not using punctuation and failing to capitalize \u2014 does not come across as professional,\u201d wrote Joyce E.A. Russell, the director of the Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Program at the University of Maryland\u2019s Robert H. Smith School of Business, in The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

For new grads in Nationwide\u00a0who may have spent the last four years deeply immersed in the intricacies of Accounting, Biology, or Economics, with little opportunity to hone writing skills, there is hope. Back to Basics Learning Dynamics offers 1-on-1 instruction for students at all levels \u2014 from those wishing to improve\u00a0existing skills, to those who somehow managed to avoid the English Department entirely after freshman year!<\/p>\n

To learn more about 1-on-1 writing instruction and tutoring in Nationwide, please contact Back to Basics Learning Dynamics at 302-594-0754.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Photo by nenetus<\/a>\u00a0and FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newly minted college grads may be well versed in their individual fields of study, but they often share a common deficiency in their education.\u00a0According to the\u00a02016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, hiring managers said writing was the hard skill most lacking in new grads (beyond data analysis, industry-specific software, or coding). As new grads enter the workforce, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14088,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions\/14088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}