Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robin Ryan is a career counselor who covers job search and careers. The trickiest part of creating your LinkedIn profile is ...

SCENARIO: You've been asked to write the executive summary of for a sales proposal. Because you know your competitors are also writing proposals, you want to make certain that your proposal gets read ...

As jobseekers scour jobsites for potential relevant openings, it behooves them to apply to as many positions as possible. Of the applicants who send out their resume 1 to 10 times, only 12.6% book 3 ...

To help students understand the form and function of a summary and to prepare them to write their own summary paragraphs. Students have read a sample summary (i.e., an abstract of an journal article) ...

The most important part of every sales proposal is the executive summary-but many people in sales get it completely wrong. Some sellers wrongly believe that the executive summary should summarize the ...

Some people hate to write about themselves. That is what Mary, 59, a Product Director, said to me yesterday as we began to create her LinkedIn Profile. She went on to reveal why. “I find it very hard ...

Events move pretty fast in the day-to-day operations of your business. One way to keep your team efforts focused in a common direction is through the use of business activity reports. These reports ...

An executive summary is a portion of a business plan that sums up all of the information a business plan contains. Since this is a summary of the plan's contents, you write this piece last. For a ...

To prepare students to write a critical summary for their upcoming essay assignment; to apply note-taking skills previously assigned for homework; to give students practice offering peer feedback; to ...