Personal statements – be ethical and do ’em yourself

We lost a nursing client as we wouldn’t write a personal statement for her to get a hospital placement.

She was in the final year of her nursing degree in Adelaide and English was her second language. She could write well enough though.

I thought about her personal statement as I read her resume. She had copied and pasted her duties entirety from previous placements in to her career history.

One would think after almost three years of nursing training that the client could write, even in broken English, her personal motivation to work as a nurse.

It’s not my personal motivation. It’s hers.

That’s the bare minimum, isn’t it? I got the sense she had hired professional writers to apply for professional placements for her at each stage of her nursing degree.

I reread my post of yesterday about people using professional writers and essay factories to produce work for them. What was the difference here?

There was none. We work in partnership with clients to write cover letters and resumes for people to target specific jobs and we are very successful at it.

I’ll do whatever I can ethically to make sure clients gets short-listed.

But I won’t write personal statements for someone seeking entry to the medical profession, when it should clearly come from the client.

 

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