Professional Correspondence Workshop
Towards the end of the fall semester, Hailey McGleam, our SAIS Global Careers Manager, engaged the HNC community in a workshop about “Professional Correspondence” regarding the etiquette of professional communication, emails and cover letters. We spent an hour laughing, questioning our history of correspondence, and learning how to improve our professional communication skills. This Blog highlights important communication skills discussed in depth from one of our career related seminars. Regardless of who we are, a professional, current SAIS student or candidate, or a reader randomly browsing through the HNC blog page, we all have our fair share of mishaps in our deliberations. Perhaps you spelled someone’s name wrong on an email exchange; sent an AI inspired correspondence that made you sound more poetic than you are; or contacted the wrong professor (with the right name) telling him how much you love his class (which they do not teach). It happens to us all. Hailey knew this an...