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Subject:RE: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:20:20 -0500
Use it to my advantage. Send out another email with the corrected
attachment, and in the email cover letter, explain what happened and
apologize.
Guaranteed, at the least, it will get the person's attention and probably
out of curiosity, the person will look to see what the error was. What
matters is that you stood out from the crowd and at best, you've admitted
that you make errors and that you are ready to point them out and fix them
regardless of the repercussions instead of hoping nobody notices.
Which is the way you're supposed to do it.
John Posada
-----Original Message-----
From: Deb M. [mailto:dm -at- ptrail -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:13 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Even the CEO of Monster lies on his resume
Suppose you sent out a resume and cover letter via e-mail and realized you
made an embarrassing typo after you clicked the Send button? (Like,
misspelled the company's name, for example.) What would you do?
Deb
dm -at- ptrail -dot- com
From: "John Posada" <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>
> My favorite...and I did it...
>
> The document was supposed to say "does not" You know what happens when the
> space is in the wrong place? Move it to the left one space.
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