I have a new Editor for the blog (Penelope Trunk has one so why shouldn’t I) and this morning I got a note from him pointing out the because I’d not run yesterday’s blog post past him it was full of typo’s and grammatical errors.
Once he’d sorted it out for me (sorry to anyone who had trouble reading through the mess that it was yesterday) he continued with his research into bad spelling (he is VERY thorough!) and sent me this..
Quick check reveals that on Monster in the last week 272 people have spelt Manager as Manger!! In this competitive environment everyone should spell check and read before they post – what do you think?
Well, I think that he is absolutely right. If you can’t spell your own job title correctly (or that of your boss) then two things will happen.
a) you won’t get picked up on a CV search (unless the recruiter can’t spell either)
b) you look a little bit dumb.
FYI there is a spelling widget you can use on your blog Spelling Bee, not sure if it works on TypePad… http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/spelling-bee/csort/new/cpage/2
Hi Louise
Interesting point about spelling. Apparently you can pick up all sorts of bargains on sites like Ebay because people mis-spell the listing – therefore no-one finds them!
Equally in the murky world of SEO – sponsoring mis-spelt words is very common on Google Ad-Words.
For instance Finance Manger is sponsored by http://www.ExecutivesOnline.co.uk
and Workcircle sponsor Manger Jobs.
All very clever….or not depending on your point of view!
Luke
This is a wonderful post. It is important to stay positive and I like how this post reinforces that!