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Numerous situations arise in professional business settings that necessitate formal correspondence. You might need to send a letter to an executive in the company requesting their presence at an event ...

More business communication than ever now takes place over email and instant-messaging tools, but more serious professional communication still often takes place with letters. If you need to write ...

You wouldn't send a casually worded letter using no recognizable format to another business person if you were discussing competing for a government contract. If you want to be taken seriously as the ...

A business letter is formatted in a different way than if you were to write a personal letter. The business letter should be well-written, but it's equally important to know how to format it correctly ...

When sorting through dozens—or hundreds—of résumés and cover letters, certain patterns start to wear thin fast. Whether it's vague bullet points, inconsistent formatting or overused buzzwords, small ...