Bulletin No. 1 | January – February 2001
TIPS
Tips to avoid some common mistakes
| Don’t write: | When you mean: | Write: |
| Thank’s | Thank you | Thanks |
| Your’s | It belongs to you | Yours |
| It’s mean | It refers to, implies | It means |
| Don’t say : | Say : |
| I am agree with you | I agree with you |
| I don’t happy with it | I am not happy with it |
| I think I do not know | I don’t think I know |
| Please repeat it once again | Please repeat it or Please say it again |
| I like it very very much | I like it very much |
Tips for Job Hunting
- Seek more chances for interviews
- Adjust your approach to each company’s culture
- Be consistent with all your personal qualifications
- Apply ‘interpersonal communication’ skills
- Try to access the hidden job opportunities
- Be on time, positive thinking and assertive
Preparation for Job Hunting
- Evaluate your strong and weak points
- Work condition : entrepreneur or employee, stress or no stress, being independent or dependent, prestige, money or career, value perceived?
- List of priority : high income, career, social status
- List of jobs : engineering, marketing, designing, auditing or anything is ok?
- Analyze job market opportunity
- Seek alternatives, search information, browse the internet
- Get as many companies you can get – find the background, culture, access
- Send an application and ask for an interview – find contact, encourage yourself, be positive!
PROFILE OF THE EDITOR
Elizabeth Goenawan Ananto
The editor of EGA briefings has more than twenty five years of teaching experience in educational and professional services on English for Special Purpose, Business Communications and Public Relations in the last ten years.
A graduate from the Faculty of Letters – English Department, Padjadjaran University in 1976, she is a faculty member of the Trisakti University, teaching English and Business Communications in the Faculty of Economics. Her appointment to the Head of Public Relations Unit in 1990 – 1994 has inspired her to take a postgraduate study of Public Relations in Stirling University, Scotland. She acquired a Master of Management in Marketing from STIE IPWI in 1997 and in December 1998 she began pursuing her doctoral program in Management in the Northem University of Malaysia.
With her consistent involvement in professional organization in public relations nationally and internationally, she has been invited to join a number of task forces in the international level that leads her to the Board Member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRS) for the year 2000-2001. As a Board Member, she has taken on a specific responsibility in the future development of IPRA, in developing education and training in particular, developing education and training and in particular, developing IPRA student membership worldwide.
“EGA briefings is my initial step of a long process to be a writer in public relations. I will continually share my spirit, enthusiasm, knowledge and experience in this developing society”.
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