Writing a Cover Letter
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@IRJ said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Am I being a knit picker to moan about terrible spelling and grammar as well?
Misspellings on a resume are no bueno. Even if your spelling and grammar is poor, you should make sure its correct on your resume.
Especially as this isn't a one time, quick document. You assume that this is the most important single piece of paper (or few pieces) that this person ever has or ever will write. Nothing will get more scrutiny from the writer and nothing should have more peer and family and editorial review from other people than that one, very small, document. If they can't get good grammar and spelling there it indicates a lot more than that they just can't write to save their lives - it means that they don't understand when to get help from others, they aren't taking the process seriously, they are sloppy, etc. It's such a short document, there is no excuse for not getting it right.
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I'd normally agree but it would mean ruling out over half the applicants!
Although for many of the applicants, English is a second language, so perhaps there should be some sympathy there?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I'd normally agree but it would mean ruling out over half the applicants!
Isn't that a good thing? If you are looking for only one, the faster that you can easily rule out a lot of people, the better. Under what condition would you want to hire one of the ones in the bottom half?
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Although for many of the applicants, English is a second language, so perhaps there should be some sympathy there?
Yes, there is some amount of potential leniency in that case. But only so much if the language is in English and communications is part of the job.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
I'd normally agree but it would mean ruling out over half the applicants!
Although for many of the applicants, English is a second language, so perhaps there should be some sympathy there?
If they know their English isn't strong, even more reason to get it reviewed by people who can help them. If they choose not to have it reviewed and then make the needed changes, then they are lazy and stupid. Maybe not their intellectual side, but their common sense side.
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@thanksaj said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I'd normally agree but it would mean ruling out over half the applicants!
Although for many of the applicants, English is a second language, so perhaps there should be some sympathy there?
If they know their English isn't strong, even more reason to get it reviewed by people who can help them. If they choose not to have it reviewed and then make the needed changes, then they are lazy and stupid. Maybe not their intellectual side, but their common sense side.
Agreed, it is a rare ESL person who doesn't know someone who can review their resume. It's a resource that they should be actively seeking out.
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@LindaStull said in Writing a Cover Letter:
Just don’t understand what it is. I can’t write it if I don’t understand that kind of texts. Agreed? I was advised to read about it and to study that subject. What do you think? Can’t I just order this cover letter thing? I think I can, why not? Those essay pro guys look very nice. Seems that they would write that text better than me. I don’t want to waste my time studying things I don’t need in real life.
The URL from your link looks so legit!!
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@LindaStull
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@scottalanmiller You missed kililng the quoted info. Don't give them the web crawler hits either.
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@JaredBusch said in Writing a Cover Letter:
@scottalanmiller You missed kililng the quoted info. Don't give them the web crawler hits either.
Oops, got it.
