Make sure your grammar is at least passable in your Resume

spidey07

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This is giving me a headache. I'm reviewing about 20 resume's and the grammar is simply terrible on at least half of them. Subject and verb don't match, tense is all wrong, adverbs used as verbs, etc. Every 3rd sentence or so I'm having a "Did you really think that sounded right?" moment.

Has it really gotten this bad at written communication for young'uns?
 

Perknose

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Has it really gotten this bad at written communication for young'uns?

The grammatical irony in your sentence is giggle worthy.

:awe: It really has gotten this bad at it. :awe:

Edit: :awe: "20 resume's" :awe:
 
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Modelworks

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Wait till you do interviews and every other word is like and you know.
Text messaging has made illiteracy worse rather than better. I have seen applications with things like "C" instead of see and "4" written instead of "for"
 

spidey07

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The grammatical irony in your sentence is giggle worthy.

:awe: It really has gotten this bad at it. :awe:

I knew that was coming so I didn't edit it.

"Has written communication gotten this bad."

And it's a dang intarweb post, not applying for a job you big meanie.
 
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spidey07

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Wait till you do interviews and every other word is like and you know.
Text messaging has made illiteracy worse rather than better. I have seen applications with things like "C" instead of see and "4" written instead of "for"

That's what I was thinking. And a lot of them I can tell they googled for a lot of acronyms and just tossed them in there. It's clear their experience had nothing to do with that technology.
 

Krazy4Real

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This is giving me a headache. I'm reviewing about 20 resume's and the grammar is simply terrible on at least half of them. Subject and verb don't match, tense is all wrong, adverbs used as verbs, etc. Every 3rd sentence or so I'm having a "Did you really think that sounded right?" moment.

Has it really gotten this bad at written communication for young'uns?
The ironing is delicious.
 

Perknose

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I knew that was coming so I didn't edit it.

"Has written communication gotten this bad."

Sure you did. ;)

Now let's discuss the fail of "20 resume's." :biggrin:
 

Homerboy

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Oh boy... don't back Spidey into a corner. There is no telling what he may (or may not) do.
 

olds

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20 resume's is my favorite.
I like that he capitalized the word "resume" in the title.
Either cap all words in a title or just proper nouns if you want to be lazy.
Or whatever
 

Blackjack200

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Total opposite experience here. We're hiring a for VP level (i.e. fairly low level, not EVP or anything like that) position and the quality of the candidates is absolutely rediculous. We've interviewed three so far and I don't think we're going to interview any more. All three individuals are qualified, it's going to be hard to reject two of them.

All three candidates submitted dense, properly formatted resumes with few mistakes and in the interviews they were able to answer every question we had about them. The economy is clearly claiming some pretty talented casualties.
 

Perknose

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Come on, we've known for a long time that he's a hypocrite.

Well, he holds offensively extreme views on certain subjects, that much is true.

The one thing I want to say about spidey is that, on a personal level, he takes a licking and keeps on ticking. He seldom, if ever, melts down in molten rage when attacked.

I admire this trait in him, even if he is, imho, a paranoid racist nutcase. Such personal restraint when attacked is something I and many, many other posters here lack.

I have to give credit where credit is due. On this one point, spidey happens to shine.

As scary and insane as many of his views are to me, I believe he and I could sit down over a beer and genially abuse each other, and that the experience wouldn't be all that bad.
 

Possessed Freak

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The difference is that Spidey surely is not trying to get a job by posting on this forum. When I write on forums or whatnot, I do a very cursory check to make sure my point can get across. I do not worry about perfect grammar. I do not worry about homophones. When I write a memo or something to do with my job, you better believe I put it through a much more vigorous proofreading.
 

Blackjack200

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The unintended lulz rolls on! :biggrin:

//shrug

My office uses an ancient version of IE and there is no built in spell check. When I type out documents in Word, I don't even see a spelling error like "rediculous", it gets repaired as soon as I hit the spacebar.

I love you guys, but I am not going to do any lengthy proofreading before I post. If this results in lulz for some, good.
 

BurnItDwn

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Yea, This is one of those rare times where I'll agree with spidey. Using proper grammar on your Resume is just common sense. Why make yourself look stupid?
 

DrPizza

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This is giving me a headache. I'm reviewing about 20 resume's and the grammar is simply terrible on at least half of them. Subject and verb don't match, tense is all wrong, adverbs used as verbs, etc. Every 3rd sentence or so I'm having a "Did you really think that sounded right?" moment.

Has it really gotten this bad at written communication for young'uns?


Maybe my high school English teacher was a grammar Nazi or something. But, I'm amazed that with all the things mentioned about his post, you guys ignored all the run-on sentences.
"I'm reviewing about 20 resumes." STOP! That's a sentence. "And, the grammar is simply terrible on at least half of them. Subject and verb don't match." Again, stop! That's the end of a sentence. "Tense is all wrong. Adverbs are used as verbs." I could be wrong, but I also believe there should be a comma between "so" and "I'm."

If Spidey is finding problems with the "resume's," imagine how much worse the probably actually are. :p

And, I agreed on the sit and have a beer with Spidey comment. As long as the discussion doesn't turn to broadband access for rural areas.
 

GagHalfrunt

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//shrug

My office uses an ancient version of IE and there is no built in spell check. When I type out documents in Word, I don't even see a spelling error like "rediculous", it gets repaired as soon as I hit the spacebar.

I love you guys, but I am not going to do any lengthy proofreading before I post. If this results in lulz for some, good.

It was typed as rEdiculous because it's in your head as rEdiculous, that's not something that proofreading will fix because to you that seems right. Don't blame IE for your own stupidity. The greatest lulz are for your lameass excuses. Instead of blaming everything and everyone except yourself, accept that YOU are the problem and learn to spell.