Communicating as a Professional

Brandon King

Rick Dollieslager

Final Draft

12 November, 2014

“Communicating as a Professional”

In a professional job you’re entitled to have good grammar and knowing how to use it the correct. The major problem in the work place, most people have bad grammar which a person becomes deficient in their abilities in there career choice. In my opinion you need to be very good and writing and having good grammar or it’s going to very hard to do your select career path.

In the Susan Adams article, there are many good reasons why people should use better grammar. The new generation doesn’t have very good grammar because of their conversations and twitter using that is brought into the work place. Most head CEOs of companies get tired of the new generation using their words incorrectly and in the wrong sense. People use grammar the same way in writing and speaking and usually it’s unprofessional in the work place. In Kyle Weins article (owner of “ifixit”); flat out said that if someone has bad grammar in there orientation he won’t even hire them in his company. He owns a manual publishing place that writes every day, so they have to be good at writing in a sense. He says that if he has someone that he doesn’t hire because of their grammar, it’s because not only can’t they do good writing, it is not good business sense as well. The grammar test they give is to everybody in the company including salespeople, there operations staff, and there programmers. He also found out that someone that gets fewer mistakes on the grammar test makes fewer mistakes in other take his employees are doing throughout there day not only in writing, but other stuff to.

According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook for Police Officers, There are several skills that are needed to communicate in many ways, like speaking and writing important documents. These documents are seen by many people including other police officers, judges, and other law enforcement officials. Police officers need to have a very good and broad vocabulary and grammar when writing these different documents. It is very important to have these techniques so your documents are legible and lets the reader know you’re a professional and know what you’re talking about. When you are talking to people, the speaker needs to use better grammar and vocabulary words to get across what they’re trying to talk about. Police officers use many different tools to communicate like having a conversation with other police officers and fugitives, radios, and computers. They need to be clear when speaking and using good grammar skills in everything they do. Police officers need to have these skills to be successful in their job, because they use all these skills every day and need to be very good at it.

There are many communication skills that I need to my career. The communication skills that I need to work on work be having a broad vocabulary, and using good grammar. On my own I will start using better words in things I need to write to become more professional. In college I will find better vocabulary to use in my writings, and use better grammar to make my writings more professional, and legible to read. In my field as a police officer I need to be able to have good communication skills and grammar skills to become successful in my field. Police officers use all of these skills in many ways and need to become very good at it, because there are very important people that have to read these documents and need to be legible and in a professional manor to them when there being read. Police officers have a lot of important information about arrest and others situations that has to be recorded correctly and very clear so when they go to court everybody knows exactly what happened and what punishment needs to be taking for peoples actions.

In many careers it is very important to have good grammar. In Kyle Weins article, he will not hire anybody that cannot pass the grammar test he gives in his interviews. That goes to show you that many company’s just like his will not hire people that have bad grammar so getting a job might be difficult and a decent job at that. That plays in many roles how your professional career will go and what it will be, and the money you could make. Grammar determines the goals you will achieve and loose.

Works Cited

Adams, Susan. "Why Grammar Counts at Work." Forbes. 20 July 2012.

<http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2012/07/20/why-

grammar-counts-at-work/>.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, Police and Detectives, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detectives.htm

Weins, Kyle. "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's

Why." Harvard Business Review: HRB Blog Network. 20 July

<http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html