How to Write a Job Offer Letter: Template and Guide

HR professionals like former Fortune 500 HR executive Liz Ryan have described the offer letter as doing three jobs at once: serving as a contract, a closing document, and a first day briefing, and note that letters tend to fail when they are strong on one of these and weak on the others. [...] Workplace writers such as Alison Green of Ask a Manager have observed that the strongest offer letters read as though they were written to one specific person, while the weakest ones read as though they could have been sent to anyone who passed a background check. [...] Organizational psychologists who study hiring, including Wharton's Adam Grant, have noted that offer letters which close candidates tend to be warm, specific, and complete, while letters that lose candidates are usually missing one of those three qualities.