E mail misspellingsI just left a company where nobody cared about accuracy enough to use Spell Check or allow me (their secretary) to check their work before it went out of the office. Not only did this cause me embarrassment (thinking the receiver probably thought it to be my work), but I'm sure it did not reflect well on the professionalism of the company. Personally, I wouldn't deal with a company if the correspondence I received was full of typo's and misspellings.
I agree with you that it looks very unprofessional to have typos and other mistakes in correspondence, email and paper. But today, I think our main focus is on meaning. In other words, so long as we understand what is being said, these mistakes are tolerated. We live in an electronic world where we're juggling lots of things at one time, and are extremely busy. So we have become more tolerant of things. Personally, I think this is a bad thing because we don't look very professional. Spelling should matter!
I to agree. If that company has typos and boo boo's on its letters . That shows that no one is really checking the professionalism that is comming from the place. That alone is something that can make you or break you in the professional world. I had a woman back in the beginning when I was circulating my resume and going to interviews .State to me ,that I might want to proof read my resume or hire someone to do so. She found it was jumbled and had alot of typos. Even though some programs do spell check, they do not correct run on sentences and punctuation. I felt like I was handing my 3 rd grade teacher my paper and she was marking in big red letters :"x's" circles and those squiggly lines across my resume. And then handing it back to me. That wasn't a good day at all.
Personally, if I access a company's web site, and it is laden with grammar & spelling errors, and typos, I will not do business with them. If they cannot be bothered to hire a professional to at least copy edit their work, I wonder if they are professional enough to provide a good product and good service!
Having an email with obvious mistakes shows the person is lazy and uneducated. Anybody can make a simple typo, but if ii is done carelessly enough then that person is not paying attention to detail. I would hesitate to do business with also. This new system on Monster forums is working much better, than the old one. As a recruiter for many years of my own employees, I can't help but feeling concerned if an application is littered with misspelling and poor grammar. Any clue that a potential candidate gives me, when I have 50+ resumes to look at (e-mail or real-mail), is a big step in my efficiency in getting where I want to. Small errors maybe, but with consistent ones throughout and I'd need a lot of belief to get them to the next level. Frankly it's just sloppy and if they are like that with their important resume, then what will they be like on the job, maybe where they interact with clients who are picky. No-one notices correct spelling - yet there will be some that notice poor spelling, which reflects on the organization and it's values as a whole. For me it's a no-brainer as well as easy to fix. With that, I'm checking my e-mail post here with a fine toothed comb! BTW - I'm from England and I have to be careful to get my 'organization' and my 'organisation' correct for the country I'm contributing in! Using the spell check button at the bottom showed up two spelling errors, even though I'd visually scanned it - a great little tool, by the way. Section of post does not conform with Monster TOU. Please contact 1-800-Monster to purchase advertising. "....and it's values as a whole..." It is exactly this type of error that is rampant in the written word today, and one that spell check will not pick up. (Not to pick on you, Martin, but this is a blatant error, and I've seen people make it who pretend to be copywriters. It is a mortal sin of grammar.) Granted, when one is in a hurry, as folks usually are here, it may be "overlookable" but any cover letter or resume that came to me with this specific error in it (or the they're/their/there, your/you're, etc.) would get tossed in the trash. I've harped about this for years on these Forums. I do not know what the problem is. People can take creative writing or basic English classes at their local community college or high school or simply access English grammar, spelling and punctuation Sites to review the rules or learn them once and for all. Perhaps many of us did not go to good schools. However, it's more likely that some participants think that because they're on informal Message Boards, they can type the way they choose to type and can ignore good English. They have all kinds of excuses for doing that. One participant even said a long time ago that she is "burned out on punctuation." Her posts were fine but hard to understand because she left out a lot of punctuation marks and had numerous fragmented and run-on sentences. Yes! I agree that the company looks very unprofessional if they send out correspondence with any typos or mistakes at all.
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