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What is your writing experience?
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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Being able to communicate swiftly and efficiently verbally is a skill. However, in today's times, one's written communication skills are of equal import. Whether communicating via email, written bulletin, or via text, confusion and loose interpretation must be averted. Therefore, they are interested in how your written communication skills have played a role in your career.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
The U.S. Department of State has a Plain Writing Guidance Page that spells out its standards for written communication. Visit that site and rehearse your answer before you are asked this question. Then, building off their guidelines, reflect on how you put those practices to work, enhancing your workplace communications via the written word. Talk to the interviewer about your most recent position and how written communication played a part. Acknowledge the importance of this method of clear communication in the workplace. Describe the impact of what you contributed.
Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"I'd say I have outstanding writing skills. In fact, I consider myself an excellent communicator both verbally and with the written word. I am transparent and strive to say the most in the fewest words possible. I just want to make sure that the message I intend to send is the message that's received as consistently as possible. I do my best to create the highest standards for myself and uphold them."
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