Red Tape Busters

When you’re pumping out grant writing application after grant writing application, and you’re not having any success, it sure can be disheartening. With competition for grants at an all-time high, it’s important that your grant writing applications hit the mark every time. In fact, you should assume that every time you submit a grant writing application, you are competing with hundreds of other organisations and/or individuals for the same money. Is it any wonder that many proposals get shelved without a second look? To ensure that your grant writing applications don’t land in the reject bin every time, here are some of the most common grant writing mistakes that you must avoid: Not Doing Your Leg Work All funding bodies have their own set of objectives and interests. No matter how great your project idea might be, if it does not fit within the funder’s interests or objectives, then you are really trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. In fact, chances are, your gran...

Everyone wants to believe that when they send a job application and resume to a prospective employer, someone on the receiving end painstakingly reviews the whole document.  After all, you spent hours and hours putting the job application together.  The reality to far different.  Chances are your job application and resume will only be given a cursory glance, so you need to make it count.  How do job application and resume writers produce a resume that stands out?   Job application writing  is difficult enough and so you want to ensure you get your resume right. Here are our top tips.

Competition for tenders has never been tougher.   You can assume that every time you undertake a tender writing application, you are competing against multiple companies for the same job.   With assessors wading through dozens of tender writing applications, how can you make yours stand out?   Here are our top tips:    

The grant writing market is incredibly competitive. The best grant applications are those that are well-planned, researched and written with great attention to detail.   Yes, writing a grant application is a fine art!   As a grant writer , here are some tips to make the daunting task of grant application writing a little easier and some points to consider along the way.

When writing a job application we are often so focused on getting the written part right that we forget the next step. But job application writing involves another important component - the interview. Your wonderful resume writing skills and job application will mean nothing if you do not nail the job interview. So what is it that employers are looking for in an interview? It’s easy to imagine a scenario where an interview panel sits down together at the end of a hard day of interviewing, having a good laugh about just how badly some candidates performed in their interview.  

When you’re a tender writer , you are competing against countless other tender writers and companies.   To be successful, you must stand out. Therefore, a tender writing application is your chance to show why your business can do the job better than your competitors, but many tender writers make the same easily-avoidable mistakes and have lost out because of them.   If you want to fail as a tender writer, then here is out step-by-step guide.  

There are certain qualities that all great grant writers have.   Sure, they must have excellent written commination skills but there are other characteristics of grant writers that help them to stand out from the rest.   Here are our seven qualities to look for in a grant writer .