Business Memo - Improving Hiring Standards

To: John Smith

From: XXX

Date: September 25th, 2013

Re: Improving ABC's hiring standards

After reading Kyle Wien's article "I won't hire people who use poor grammar. Here's why" issued in July 20th, 2012 of Harvard Business Review, I would like to make following recommends that might improve our hiring standards.

First, Wien states that grammar test is a good way to find out whether a person pays attention on details or not. Just like Wien mentioned, "The devil's in the details," instead of merely letting job seekers to describe how they pay attention to their jobs, asking them to prove it is a better way to make a hiring decision.

Furthermore, the way a person writing is part of the symbol of his or her personal work style: sloppy grammar in an article is like sloppy wearing on a person — these are signals of how a person treats his or her life and work. Also, sloppy workers may have negative impact for company to gain profits. Not only because their behavior represent our company image, but also because their careless mistakes might cause a lose of company.

However, how to practice the grammar exam just right is crucial. From how to measure if it makes economic sense of the cost to developing a grammar test system, to suffer some degree of potential lose on the possibility of missing a perfect fit employee by overstate the importance of the test. In the other hand, if we already can determine an applier has a good sense of grammar logic or not from his or her resume, it was meaningless to invest on adding a grammar test into our hiring standards practice.

Overall, I highly recommend to adding a grammar test into our hiring standards, because it is a good way to give a chance to appliers