"Grammar and Your Salary" by Peter Harris

Want to get ahead at work? Take a little extra time to formulato grammatically correct sentences and carefully proofread everything you write. How important aro the minor dotails of word usage and punctuation? A report put out by Grammarly earlier this month shows that people who use proper grammar advance further and faster in their careers.

For this study, they analysed the Linkedin profiles of native English speaking professionals, and compared their language skills with their career trajectories over a ton$-$year period. Their findings are telling. People with poor grammar skills don't rise to the top. Those who had not reached a director$-$level position in the first ten years of their working lives made $2\mathrm{.}5$ times as many grammatical mistakes as people who earned diroctor$-$level titlos or higher. The professionals who made fewer grammatical mistakes were promoted more often and changod jobs more froquently than did their more error$-$prone contemporaries.

Beyond just getting promoted and moving up the ladder, using proper grammar can be critical to getting hired at all. One of the easiest ways to sink your candidacy for a position is to have typos or spelling mistakes in your resume. Hiring managers interpret such errors as signs of carelessness, laziness, or a lack of language skills on the job seeker's part. If you can't take the time to produce an error$-$free document when you'ro trying to get hired in the first place, how will you perform on the job?