Job Applicants

[SpokeyDokey]

What's the matter with some people?

My wife is advertising a job for a Senior Typist and specified very high levels of layout skills and accurate grammar for technical documents. She also specified that the documents will be sent straight from the successful applicant to the end-user (clients) as the workload volume is high and that there is no second stage proof-read in her office.

However, CV has three typo's and the covering letter a further two plus two instances of double full stops.

Other than that the CV looks terrific.

Recruiting....painful!

 

[Pale Rider]

three typo's !

The incorrect use of an apostrophe to denote a plural is a particular bugbear of mine.

 

[Fubar]

My pet hate - my one and only experience of recruiting was the despair at the quality of application forms - capitals being a particular bugbear.

 

[Pale Rider]

My pet hate - my one and only experience of recruiting was the despair at the quality of application forms - capitals being a particular bugbear.

Ah yes, Capitalise Everything Disease is another one.

Often at its worst on restaurant menus.

 

[swee'pea99]

My business, whose business is writing, received a steady stream of unsolicited applications from people so passionate about writing and with such excellent attention to detail that they somehow failed to notice the three blatant typos in their CVs, and the spelling mistake in the first line of their covering email. I got one once addressed to Daer Sir/Madam. Astonishing.

 

[Profpointy]

The incorrect use of an apostrophe to denote a plural is a particular bugbear of mine.

typo' is short for typographical errors so has an apostrophe, plural or otherwise. If you are going to be pedantic it's best to get it right

Precision the the most important whosername after all

 

[MontyVeda]

with no second stage proof reading in place... one should expect a few typos to get through. Proof reading ones own work isn't easy as one tends to read what they think they've written, rather than what they've actually written. We're only human after all.

 

[Pale Rider]

typo' is short for typographical errors so has an apostrophe, plural or otherwise. If you are going to be pedantic it's best to get it right

As a short form, 'typo' is a word on its own, thus the plural is 'typos'.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/typo

 

[Spinney]

Ting!!

Round one to Pale Rider.

 

[Pale Rider]

Ting!!

Round one to Pale Rider.

The trick from my point of view is to quit while I am ahead, because it won't last.

 

[vernon]

typo' is short for typographical errors so has an apostrophe, plural or otherwise. If you are going to be pedantic it's best to get it right

Precision the the most important whosername after all

Getting your facts right before chasing precision is most important.

If you are going to be pedantic it's best to base your pedantry on facts and not innacurate assertions.

 

[akb]

Wot du xpect?! Innit.

 

[vernon]

Can I have some of that popcorn Mort? I'll trade you a grocers apostrophe (see what I did )

I'll toast to that.

Cheer's

 

[Profpointy]

As a short form, 'typo' is a word on its own, thus the plural is 'typos'.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/typo

rubbish ! You'll be saying it's not 'phone nor 'bus next. What's the world coming to?

 

[vernon]

rubbish ! You'll be saying it's not 'phone nor 'bus next. What's the world coming to?

A world that's not populated with folk who don't know their contractions from their contradictions.