I wasn't able to participate in the Career Fair this year, but I plan on participating next year with the new resume.
I have came across many effective pieces of business communication, but it's the ineffective pieces of business communication that really stick out in my mind. I received a note this week regarding the details of an upcoming meeting that was very ineffective. At first glance, the main graphic was very pixely like it had been stretched too large and the sides of the graphic were cut off to fit in the spot. I think that this looks sloppy and not representative of the company. Once I got to the actual text, the grammar was very distracting. There were no apostrophes were they were needed and no commas to break up the long run-on sentences. The tense changed from first person to third person in this one paragraph note. There were many other sentence structure problems and grammar rules that were ignored. I'm not a grammar expert, but these issues were glaring out. It read almost like a text message typed while you were running out the door, instead of a important notice that was sent to 100 people. The main point of the meeting was so hidden in the text that it could have been easily missed. If more time had been spent writing and editing this message, it would be more appealing and effective to the readers.
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