The truth is, half the HR putzes reading these resumes can’t spell either. But they get to sit in judgment of their illiterate brethren.
More likely because the interviewers of today simply don't know any better - they don't recognize the mistakes for what they are.
The public school kids of yesterday are the middle managers today
You left out the best one:
“Earned a diploma from a very repudiated college.”
I’ll bet you did, young man...
I tossed resumes for even a single error, even if there was an MIT/Caltech/Stanford/Harvard/Yale degree on there. I did not want a low quality finished product to ever go out with my name on it. Not surprisingly, the people I hired under that standard did great work and many are now in business for themselves.
Really bad when an accountant doesn't know how to spell excel.
My ex-boss wld slip n2 twitterspeak and txtmsgs when she would become a lazy sod trying to send me an email/online text about something.
She’d also fly off the handle (not about typos but about precise word choice).
Anytime I say that texting bullsh*t, I’d realize that as a manager, she came off as a moron.
A bunch of loosers ...
As an IT engineer with degrees in English and technical communication, this pains me.
Just another example of lowering our standards even more. As an employer, why would you want to hire an illiterate, even one who makes “simple” mistakes? “Simple” mistakes can cost a company hundreds of thousands of $$$.
I teach a critical thinking class online for a college, where essentially every student is incapable of typing a paragraph in English with correct grammar and spelling. Since this college sells itself on student success in the workplace, last semester I posted a copy of one of the egregious messages posted the previous term, said that their messages often looked essentially the same, and then asked a simple question: would any of the students hire someone who wrote a resume like this? No one said s/he wouldn’t; a half dozen said they would, that there were some things more important than English.
Remember, these are students in a critical thinking course: if you are a native English speaker and cannot line up your words logically in English, you are incapable of critical thinking, and/or doing anything beyond grunt work.
“I am looking for my big brake.”
~Midas
“My 3 biggest hobbies are cars, golf, racquetball, and reading.”
~Accounting Firm of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
“Work experience: Academic tudor.”
~Ren Faire Worker
I had a person apply as a medical assistant in my office listing
“Blood Boner Pathogens OSHA”
as one of her Educational certificates attained
And just below it “ Typing Certificate Obtained”
How can that be with so many available candidates (unemployed people) out there? I thought the more unemployed there are, businesses could pick and choose and also pay less. Laziness?
While it wasn’t in writing, I was once interviewing a candidate and the interview turned to his personal qualities. He seemed a bit cocky and arrogant and I asked if he could laugh at himself. He assured me he had a great sense of, “self-defecating,” humor.
Was his name Hannibal? Did you wear ketchup as perfume?
One of my personal favorites was the candidate who had bullet points of their qualities and listed “attention to detail” twice, four bullet points apart.
Or currently if they have a degree from Rutgers. That would raise a major flag.
SEX: often
Were those on actual resumes? Or did they steal them off of the Fox News scrawl?