In this assignment, you are writing an offer letter of professional employment to a prospective employee. Interviews have been completed, and the company has decided to extend an offer to the prospective employee, who may or may not be required to sign an employment contract. However, this assignment is to write the offer letter, and not the contract.
Based on the principles of contract and employment law you’ve learned in class, this letter must include, at a minimum, the following:
- The terms, scope, and benefits of employment; must pass legal muster of an OFFER
- Covenant not to compete; must pass legal muster
- Description of “at-will” work written into the letter; or alternatively, a description of how termination and contract renewal would work if you offer a contract
- Otherwise, you are free to get creative
Assume you are the employer. You have wide discretion to use any industry or corporation of your choosing, however, you should strongly consider what types of businesses and employments might utilize a employment offer like the one you are asked to draft.
Write a properly formatted, one page, properly spaced and formatted employment offer of maximum two pages. This MUST be formatted as a business letter. THINK TO YOURSELF AS YOU PREPARE THIS: if you were being offered a job of professional employment, what would you want to see in the letter?
Turn in your letter assignment on Sunday, May 19th by 11:59pm via the Blackboard turnitin link on and email me a copy in WORD as a back up.
Academic Integrity will be strictly required. Do not copy more than five words in a row from any source without attribution. This includes online, my slides, text, other slides, another person, etc.