Spell Check people!

posted March 29th, 2015 at 10:22 AM

I have been looking for employment and am disgusted by the lack of care taken by employers in their ads - wrought with terrible spelling and sentence structure. They demand a lot yet won't pay a living wage, makes me want to puke.

7 Comments

it's laughable

Mar 29, 2015 at 6:27pm

so true.
Maybe a persons resume should be written with all the same spelling errors. The applicant may have more success. I guess, the posting should read- "incompetent applicants only"-since the person who wrote the posting IS already an employee. Maybe English is not the language of choice-After all this IS only CANADA.lol

It would be a living wage

Mar 29, 2015 at 7:32pm

If Vancouver wasn't made to be so unreasonably fuckin expensive.

Thanks NOT to the govts that brought Expo 86 and the Olympics and the people/organizations who posted this being one of the best places to live in the world.
(BIG thumbs down)

Otto Didaktyk

Mar 29, 2015 at 8:04pm

Why do you assume that straight-A spelling is necessary to run a business?

Catburger

Mar 29, 2015 at 10:15pm

Well if you really want to stick it to them... start your own business and show the world how to write job ads properly and pay great wages!

amie

Mar 29, 2015 at 11:35pm

You're missing a comma after "spell check" in your title.

Wally

Mar 30, 2015 at 3:35am

Have you met some of the slackers who get into HR? Computers scan your resume anyway so it's not the under-educated HR person picking up any errors.

Funny

Mar 30, 2015 at 8:32am

I was going to write a post last week on the poor quality of resumes I receive. If you only have a few spelling mistakes on your resume you’re in the top percentile of applicants. Most are illegible. And no one is going to hire a bitter know-it-all. They’re the worst of the worst.