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Breadman wrote:Spot on.
Yet again.....
The number of CV's I've received from recruitment companies on behalf of University graduates who want a job but who can't spell properly or construct a basic sentence is frightening.
I've always employed a simple rule - If the one piece of paper that you're going to send to me to try and convince me that you're worth taking seriously is full of spelling mistakes and poorly constructed bollocks, it's going in the bin.
That may sound harsh, but as a pupil at Smithills Grammar School, I had it drummed into me that a basic command of English (our language, FFS!) is a pre-requisite for success.
However, I'm starting to think that I'm alone in this.
I recently was embroiled in a heated discussion with colleagues about a candidate whose CV looked like it'd been put together by a retarded chimp, but who looked "clean" on Facebook and "seemed like a nice girl" and because she'd been to a decent university, was considered a good catch.
Utter bollocks......
If you spell simple, uncomplicated words incorrectly on your CV and aren't bright enough to check it and don't know what a paragraph is, I don't give a shit whether or not there are no pictures of your genitals on a social networking site and you went to what is considered a "good" university........
We are dumbing down at an alarming rate in this country.
I may be slightly younger than you, and went to Thornleigh Salesian College, but I completely agree with you.
