Friday, November 03, 2006
Advice for students: Getting details right
lifehack.org: "According to a survey developed by OfficeTeam, 84% of executives polled consider one or two typos in a résumé sufficient to remove a job-candidate from consideration. One or two typos! Translated into academic terms, one or two typos in a paper would equal a failing grade."
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You can’t really compare a resume to a paper.
I was in the situation this year where I had to read resumes and hire people for jobs (project in my business communications class)
And I can see why finding one or two typos in a resume can mean putting it in the circular file.
Since a resume isn’t 20 pages long, like some papers can be, it’s much easier to catch typos, so if you let one pass that makes you look like a careless person.
When you’re looking at resumes where everyone has almost the same qualifications you need something to separate the good from the bad.
This is kind of a basic. I mean, if you have typos on your resume, it could be seen as a number of things. The potential employer might think that you are too lazy to actually proof-read your resume well or to ask someone else with a more distant perspective to read over it for just those kind of mistakes. It also is rather careless. Finally, it might make you seem a little retarded to the interviewer in that you couldn't even remember how to spell the name of the last place that you worked? Or you can't spell the state that you live in properly? Or even that you don't know the difference between to and too and two (which would not be caught by spell check...)? The moral of the story being: proof read.
- Owen
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