According to Time Magazine, professionals who receive one to four promotions make 45% less grammatical errors than their colleagues. Even fields that are often not associated with excellent verbal and written communication, such as Computer Science and Engineering, judge employees based on their proper use of the English language. A Google CEO was quoted in the Harvard Business Review as saying: “if you don’t know the difference between its and it’s, HR may begin to wonder what else you don’t know”. In other words, as my mother often said: “it doesn’t matter how smart you are, if no one can understand you.” Therefore, it is essential to fine-tune one’s communication skills from adolescence throughout one’s academic and professional career.

Fortunately, PFAU can help you reach your full potential on the page!

Personalized Coaching is designed to help each client to improve his/her individual confidence in both written and verbal communication. These lessons are specially designed for both ESL and native speakers in order to improve the client’s grammar, vocabulary, structure, clarity, flow and overall understanding and comfort with the English language. These lessons are designed not only to improve the technical aspects of communication, but also to understand the literary, historical, and cultural context of Western communication. Clients advance from awkwardness and insecurity to natural proficiency and confidence.

Pfau provides resume & cover letter editing to help recent grads and young professionals to highlight their specialized skills and knowledge in order to obtain fulfilling and meaningful work. We help clients to develop a master resume that outlines their full work history, as well as how to tailor their experiences to specific job offers. We also work with clients to develop cover letter templates that can be used for multiple job applications.

Courses in creative writing, academic writing, and application writing are designed to provide students of all ages with opportunities to read, think, and create that may not exist within the contemporary education system or professional environment, as well as to improve overall analytical and composition skills.

Previous course listings include: 

• Creative Writing for Non-Writers

• Imagining You: Writing through Reflection

• Poetic Expression: The Inherent Creative Soul

• Research Essay Writing Fundamentals

• Essay Writing Fundamentals
  

• Job Interview Workshop

• Grad School Application Workshop

• Grad School Writing Workshop

• Resume Writing Workshop

• Public Speaking Workshop Series