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So this guy comes in and hands us his resume today, it was all I could do not to fall on the floor laughing. See kids this is why you stay in school! I love the way he puts he made it to 11th grade like its a doctorate or something. Best Laugh I've had in a while

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It really doesn't matter how well you spell if you're pushing a broom.

Sadly, living in SoCal, with a large Hispanic population, I've seen much worse resumes. Most of them didn't complete past the third grade. Some put a few words and letters down, then came forward to state they couldn't read or write. I made a habit of not considering any of them. With unburnt gunpowder around, you really need people who know how to read "No Smoking" signs.
 
It looks typed, so why wouldn't he use spellcheck?!
I agree with Holdenhsvgtsr, just because he can't spell, doesn't mean he's not a good worker. Its just that if he wanted a job that badly, you'd think he would have taken the time to spell check or proof read.
 
So his spelling of "CRYSLER" is fine then? :D

I wouldn't even want to TRY to punctuate that lot...
 
I saw three full stops and only one comma, A+. I agree that while poor grammar isn't a plus, it doesn't mean he's not going to be good at his job. I do however doubt that everywhere he's been he's made team leader or whatever, since that often requires more paperwork. In thoes positions, better grammar is more often than not, part of the job.
 
I'm confused. Is this a student who has "completed grade 11" but still in high school, presumably in grade 12, or is he a grown-ass man who never made it past the 11th grade? Because he seems to have had more jobs than even me, and I'm 27. There's no way a high school kid could have run a restaurant (and I love how he doesn't even know how long he ran it for; "4 or 5 years"!?!?!?!) AND worked for a car dealership for 4 and 1/2 years AND a grocery stockist AND a furniture store worker AND a shift leader / manager for a "great steak and potato company" (whatever the hell that means, I assume then that there are "not so great" steak and potato companies?) AND a fry cook at Carl Jr.'s AND a Wal Mart stock boy AND a Wal Mart Tire & Lube Centre worker AND a Midway worker AND a Glendal Friendly Dealer employee AND a Bell employee AND a Honda employee AND a construction worker who installed air conditioning units.

For the love of God, his list of references must come with its own dustjacket!
 
This resume is about attention to detail. Notice that he can't spell the names of the places he worked or the types of cars he worked on. That type of thing can be gotten from the free phone book and off of the sign as you show up to work. He probably has a car, and could go to his old place of employment and jot down the proper way to spell it. He could also pick up a phone book and find out how to spell all of the names of the cars he worked on.

I'd bet he (or one of his relatives) has a dictionary he could use to spell check - or even a computer he could use to spell check.

This resume says "I don't care!". Maybe it's the best the employer can do when the job is cleaning toilets, but that's still what it says. Perhaps to the person sifting through the pile this resume says "I care more than the other applicants" but this person had it well within his means to spell the entire thing correctly.
 
Ouch.

Well, I'd say there's still hope for him. You can still coach an Hockey team in the NHL and win the Stanley Cup without even knowing how to write... (no, I'm not kidding)
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:D <----- ^^ (twins)
 
It's funny yet showing you what our educational system is doing in this day and age.
 
Intelligence (oh god tell me I misspelled that) doesn't necessarily dictate how well you will do your job, but rather how quickly you will adapt to its unique challenges.

Though I agree with the people argueing that he simply doesn't care.
 
Anderton Prime
AND a shift leader / manager for a "great steak and potato company" (whatever the hell that means, I assume then that there are "not so great" steak and potato companies?)
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Don't know if you are serious, but...

http://www.thegreatsteak.com/

It is a restaurant. Think of it as the mall food court version of a Penn Station.


While I agree that spelling doesn't mean that he isn't a good worker it does, as Danoff said, show a lack of care and attention to detail. Do you want this guy as an employee if he will put the same effort into a job as he does his resume?

In this day and time errors of this magnitude are unacceptable. If he can type this on a PC then he can spellcheck it. Heck, he can even buy a resume creator off the $10 rack in any electronics section of any store. If he was using someone else's computer then he could also ask them how it looks.


Spelling errors aside, why does he seem to jump from job to job? Why does he keep jumping jobs if he always gets moved up in the company? Somewhere there is a lie. He either jumps jobs a lot (no employer wants that) or he gets fired a lot. This is a resume that I would most likely drop in the garbage even without the grammatical problems.
 
I was serious, because the moron didn't capitalize the name to inform me that it was a real chain of establishments, though I suppose I should have known that...
 
I feel kinda sorry for him. He seems to have put the effort in.

Maybe it's dyslexia!
 
Anderton Prime
I was serious, because the moron didn't capitalize the name to inform me that it was a real chain of establishments, though I suppose I should have known that...
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Well now you know and knowing is half the battle.
 
ultrabeat
I feel kinda sorry for him. He seems to have put the effort in.

Maybe it's dyslexia!
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That was my whole point - he clearly did NOT put any effort into this. Anyone, even people who don't know how to read, can get the spelling of their former place of employment correct.
 
Anderton Prime
I was serious, because the moron didn't capitalize the name to inform me that it was a real chain of establishments
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Yes he did :) In fact, he made sure to capitalize every letter so as to avoid confusion...
 
skylineGTR_guy
So this guy comes in and hands us his resume today, it was all I could do not to fall on the floor laughing. See kids this is why you stay in school! I love the way he puts he made it to 11th grade like its a doctorate or something. Best Laugh I've had in a while

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A little too cold. No personal attacks Jon. 👎
 
I'm surprised how many people I meet every day that spell and use grammar in a similar fashion.

At the very least, have someone proofread anything that's important!
 
pupik
At the very least, have someone proofread anything that's important!
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That's all we've had for weeks - we're doing work experience, and we had to write CVs. All we've had is "If you've got a spelling mistake, the company won't hire you".
 
Jon.
All we've had is "If you've got a spelling mistake, the company won't hire you".
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You'd be surprised how many seemingly unimportant things will make the company not want to hire you. A poorly crafted resume saves them lots of time.
 

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