Your Employer Asked You to Compose a Message to Be

question 13

Multiple Choice

Your employer asked you to compose a message to be sent to all job applicants who were not selected for a sales representative position. You should

• A) tell the applicant at the beginning that another candidate was chosen.
• B) ask the applicant to consider why he or she was not selected.
• C) place the "not selected" message in the dependent clause of a complex sentence describing the stiff competition for this job.
• D) imply that someone else has been selected for the position, thus avoiding the uncomfortable job of rejecting someone.

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Definitions:

Forward Contracts

A non-standardized agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specified future time at a price agreed upon today.

Financial Futures

Standardized contracts to buy or sell financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery at an agreed price.

S&P 500 Index

An index tracking the performance of 500 major US companies listed on the stock exchanges.

New York Stock Exchange Index

An indicator that shows the performance of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange.