The success or failure of your job often depends on the company culture. When evaluating an employment opportunity you should always consider the key factors that are important to you. MaryHelen Votral from CM Access joins us for this wonderful guest post on Evaluating Corporate Culture!
“A vacation is a sunburn at premium prices.”
Hal Chadwicke
“The average vacation is one-tenth playing — ninetenths paying.”
Arnold Glasow
“Vacation is that time when you wish you had something to do while doing nothing.”
Frank Tyger
We’ve just released a new resume template for our premium users. This particular design, named “Plain”, was suggested by Tiffany Fehr, a web professional specializing in usability and user experience. A big thank you out to Tiffany for the great suggestion.
If you have a particular resume template you would like to see Emurse incorporate, shoot us an e-mail and we’ll see what we can do! If you enjoy Emurse, consider upgrading — not only will you get access to this great new resume design, you’ll also feel good about supporting our site! 
Professional networking is an important aspect of your career. Understanding basic professional etiquette, introduction etiquette and general social networking can go a long way towards your success.
This guide is designed to help you understand the basics of business networking etiquette so you can get the most out of every opportunity!
“A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
Theodore T. Munger
“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Purpose is what gives life meaning.”
Charles Henry Parkhurst, D.D.
Understanding e-mail etiquette is just part of the equation. In order to conduct yourself professionally in your communications, you also need to develop strong business telephone etiquette. We’ve developed this quick guide to help enhance your professional etiquette by discussing how to speak, how to listen and how to be courteous in your telephone conversations.
“Both fortune and love befriend the bold.”
Ovid
“Only the bold get to the top”
Publilius Syrus
“Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
Christian Bovee
Here are some sample letters of recommendation as a follow up to our articles on How to Write a Letter of Recommendation and How to ask for a Letter of Recommendation.
Understanding workplace email etiquette is an important step in furthering your career. Proper e-mail etiquette is important in anything ranging from e-mailing a cover letter to “casual” correspondence with other professionals. As more and more opportunities are only found online, the need to develop effective communication skills over e-mail intensifies.
This article will help teach you how to write quality business emails to help you land your next opportunity!
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You’ve been asked to write a letter of recommendation. Now what? Writing a reference letter for someone can either be an honor and a privilege, or a downright task. We’ve written about how to ask for a letter of reference, now it’s time to cover the opposite side of the coin.
A good letter of recommendation can take a decent amount of time (and thought) to write. They should be a couple paragraphs in length and give the person receiving the letter a general sense of your feelings towards the individual.
This guide is designed to help demystify the process of writing a reference letter.
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