{"id":19,"date":"2006-09-21T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T19:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cecsearch.com\/WordPress\/2006\/09\/21\/resume-typos\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T03:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T07:59:52","slug":"resume-typos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/21\/resume-typos\/","title":{"rendered":"How important are typos in your resume?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading a couple of blog entries on how damning typos can be if they are found on your resume.\u00c2\u00a0 The post on <a title=\"Open a new browser window and visit Select Matrix\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Select Matrix<\/a> quotes the article\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Eighty-four percent of executives<\/strong> polled said it takes just one or two typographical errors in a resume to remove a candidate from consideration for a job opening; <strong>47 percent<\/strong> said a single typo could be the deciding factor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are pretty scary statistics.\u00c2\u00a0 So now my readers are wondering if that might be the reason that their resumes did not\u00c2\u00a0seem to get a second look or they didn&#8217;t get called back after submitting a resume for their dream job.<\/p>\n<p>Well, from my point of view, at least in this market niche, you can just &#8216;through&#8217; \ud83d\ude00 those statistics out the window.\u00c2\u00a0 Personal experience has taught me that most if not all of the middle level management executives that get hired in this industry have the decision to interview and then hire\u00c2\u00a0based upon where they have worked and what their record of achievement was.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure that any of the hiring authorities that I send resumes too spend much time at all checking the spelling.\u00c2\u00a0 And even if they do that isn&#8217;t going to knock out a great candidate.\u00c2\u00a0 In our business, it is about giving the customer a great experience so spelling just isn&#8217;t that important.<\/p>\n<p>Gaps in the resume &#8211; important.\u00c2\u00a0 Inconsistent career path &#8211; important.\u00c2\u00a0 Demotions during your career &#8211; important.\u00c2\u00a0 Job hopping &#8211; important.\u00c2\u00a0 Spelling, just not that important.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a tip that might help you.\u00c2\u00a0 In MS Word, &#8216;manger&#8217; is a real word and it won&#8217;t show up as a misspelling when you are typing your resume.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be a good idea to <a title=\"Open a new browser window to learn how to remove words from the dictionary.\" href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/assistance\/HP051892021033.aspx?Product=wrd2003\">remove the word from the main dicitonary<\/a>, unless you are a shepherd and work with mangers regularly and are prone to misspelling.\u00c2\u00a0 ;-)\u00c2\u00a0 Hope that tip helps y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished reading a couple of blog entries on how damning typos can be if they are found on your resume.\u00c2\u00a0 The post on Select Matrix quotes the article\u00c2\u00a0 Eighty-four percent of executives polled said it takes just one or two typographical errors in a resume to remove a candidate from consideration for a job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-blogs","category-restaurant-recruiters-viewpoint","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cecsearch.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}