KotoEnglish Business English for Human Resources
KotoEnglish Business English for Human Resources brings together the vocabulary, the phrasing and the written forms of personnel work, on the learning blog of KotoEnglish. The guide states that it uses American HR English, and it sets its terms out function by function, with tables comparing blunt wording against professional wording and American terms against British ones.
100% Free (unlimited): The whole guide is open to anyone, with no account and no payment: the vocabulary tables, the phrase tables, the email templates, the acronym list and the questions at the end. KotoEnglish also offers a free account for its courses, but nothing in this guide is kept behind it.
How It Helps Your Business English
A twelve-term table opens the guide, then vocabulary by function: recruitment, onboarding, performance, compensation and employee relations, each term defined and shown in a sentence. Phrase tables follow for interviews, offers and rejections, feedback and complaints, with hedging and modal verbs, three email templates, US acronyms, US and UK differences, and four common mistakes.
You can start from the opening table for the twelve terms you meet most, then go to the function that matches your own work. The paired columns are the useful part: too direct against professional, incorrect against correct, US against UK, so you can see what to change in your own wording. The email templates give you a frame for an interview invitation, an offer and a policy update that you fill with your own names and dates.
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