If Your Application Letter and Résumé Fail to Bring a Response

question 97

Multiple Choice

If your application letter and résumé fail to bring a response within a week or so after the position close date,

• A)let the CEO of the company know that you're being mistreated.
• B)follow up by email or telephone.
• C)cross this particular job possibility off your list.
• D)send another copy of your application letter and résumé.
• E)assume that the employer has offered the job to someone else.

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Definitions:

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Structures found on certain plants, like nettles, that deliver a sharp sting and inject substances causing pain and irritation.

Secondary Growth

The increase in thickness or girth of a plant, resulting from the activity of the vascular cambium and cork cambium, leading to the development of wood and bark.

Primary Growth

The increase in length of the shoot and the root that occurs in plants due to cell division in the apical meristems.

Arabidopsis

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