Some people need an employment verification letter from their employer. Usually, someone requests this type of letter because they are applying for a mortgage loan, signing a new lease, applying for a ...

The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring ...

The verdict is still out on whether cover letters will be as important to hiring processes, but they remain an effective way ...

Candidates for academic positions hear one piece of advice early and often: Tailor a cover letter to the job as well as to the institution and the department. But what about the hiring side of that ...

Does your new hire need an employment agreement, or can an offer letter suffice? If you worry about whether to present your new hire with an employment agreement, you are not alone. Employers ...

When a US company decides to hire an employee in another country the question of whether to send the applicant an offer letter inevitably arises. Sending an offer letter prior to the final contract is ...

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...