Are Cover Letters “So Yesterday”?

16Feb09

          In the age of online job applications, you might wonder whether cover letters have gone out of fashion.  They have not.             If you’re a literate student of the Humanities, you can be especially glad of this.  Where better to demonstrate your literacy (or, as they say in business, “communication skills”) than as you […]

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A Career in “Business”? Moi?

04Feb09

                 This is a blog to encourage you to use your exceptional education in the Humanities as foundation for a business career. But that probably wasn’t what you had in mind when you decided to major in English. You might even consider that a future in business is not only not what you had in […]

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