But I Used Spellcheck

First impressions are important and usually you resume is the first impression that company or interviewer has of you. According to Carol Kleiman, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, one of the quickest ways to prune out job candidates is too toss out resumes with typographical or grammatical errors. 

A survey of 150 human resource and other managers from the nation's largest companies by Office Team, a temporary services firm, shows that 76 percent won't hire job candidates who have or two typos in their résumés. And 45 percent said it would only take one typo to eliminate the candidate. 
"Spelling errors and other mistakes ...give the impression you are not detail-oriented or that you lack a genuine interest in the position," said Diane Domeyer, Office Team's executive director.( Kleiman, Chicago Tribune, November 21, 1996) 

After you have finished creating your resume, you should always put it through the computer's spellcheck function. But, you cannot count solely on the spellcheck function of your computer to pick up typos an grammatical errors.  Some errors will past through the spellcheck function because the are actually a word, but unfortunately for you, that word might be the wrong one.

So, the moral to the story is.....Before you send the resume of, read it out loud, correct any errors that you might pick up, and then have at least one other person proofread it for you.

How many typos did you find in the article?

As you found them, what was your reaction to the article and author? 

Would any of these typos been picked up by spellcheck?