Should You Let A Job Applicant Know About A HUGE Mistake On Their Resume?
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get it the virtue so she knows somebody that's made a major mistake on their resume major |
| 0:07.4 | mistake on their resume. |
| 0:09.6 | Should she call them out for it because it's going to be awkward and it's going to be |
| 0:12.6 | embarrassing and chances are really good it wasn't I mean it was a mistake though. |
| 0:16.5 | Cass. |
| 0:17.5 | It was and so this is what I want to know is would you want to know if you apply to a job |
| 0:22.1 | and there was a gross error on your resume or would that be too embarrassing and should |
| 0:27.3 | I might my own business so I've been going through some applications for an open position |
| 0:31.2 | that is a writing position right so it's specifically says you need to have great grammar |
| 0:36.5 | great spelling skills all of that stuff because you are a writer and editor in this position |
| 0:42.3 | and I received a resume and this person was an editor in chief of a publication and they |
| 0:49.0 | spelled chief wrong. |
| 0:50.0 | It was C H E I F instead of C H I E F right like it's misspelled first line item on the |
| 0:56.4 | resume like that was the first job on there and I'm like well absolutely you are automatically |
| 1:01.3 | disqualified because on your own resume you couldn't spell one word this is how big work |
| 1:06.8 | correctly and there's grammarly there's spell check there are so many things available |
| 1:10.6 | to you but I know mistakes happen and I know it's probably just an error and if someone |
| 1:16.2 | pointed it out to this person they'd be like oh my god I can't believe I did that it was |
| 1:20.4 | an off day what have you it happens like everyone no matter how perfect you are no matter |
| 1:25.2 | how great of an employee no matter how wonderful of a candidate everyone has off days and |
| 1:30.0 | things slip through the cracks so this person obviously is not a candidate I am considering |
| 1:36.0 | but it doesn't mean I wouldn't like to help them in their future endeavors and pointing |
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