Personal Summary: A Career In My Career

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Have you ever wondered why you did not get hired by a certain company? There was an article in the Wall Street Journal back in 2012, that managers and bosses from different companies talked about why they wouldn’t hire certain job applicants. Most of them said because of the job applicant’s grammar. Susan Adams and Kyle Wiens have strong opinions on grammar in the work place. To get in the career you want to join, you must have professional communication skills.
Susan Adams and Kyle Wiens believe good grammar is very important in the workplace. Susan Adams understands why the bosses who wrote in the discussion in the Wall Street Journal published in 2012, are disappointed with employees bringing casual language in the work place. Forty-five percent of them plan on increasing training programs to
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Proper grammar will be very important in my career. Communication skills I need to qualify and work in my career are analytic skills, detail-oriented, integrity, interpersonal and technical skills. Good grammar will help me prove this to future employees. I will be working directly with healthcare staff, using EHR computer software and analyzing electronic data. I will need to organize and manage health information data and maintain its quality, accuracy, accessibility, and security in both paper files and electronic systems. I will be using various systems to code and categorize patient information for insurance reimbursement purposes, record patient’s health, medical history, symptoms, treatments, exam, and test results. The health care professionals and insurance professionals will be the ones reading my writings. I will need good grammar and editing skills because my job requires me to organize and categorize the patients’ information for insurance purposes and for the healthcare professionals. I may not work directly with patience, but I will be responsible for their

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