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Tips for Correct Capitalization on your Resume and Cover Letter

A cover letter and resume should draw attention to your skills and qualifications, not detract from them with randomly capitalized words. Imagine if You received a Cover Letter written like This. Reading this is like riding a Roller Coaster. By the time you get to the End of the Letter, you would be thinking Twice about bringing that person in […]

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Improve Your Writing With These Resources

Writing is hard. Writing good is harder. For many of us, the idea of stringing words together into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs, is daunting. Case in point: I procrastinated writing this blog today because I could not figure out how to eloquently say what I want to say! Thankfully, there are some excellent resources available to help improve and refine your (and my!) […]

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Lessons from High School Application Essays: Interviews on Paper

I spent most of December helping my 8th grade daughter complete applications for high school. She is applying to private high schools, a process which entails responding to multiple short answer and essay questions in order to provide each school with a better idea of her interests, personality and the way she thinks. These essays are an important way for […]

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