RE: How do hiring companies view TW resumes?

[<kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

No evidence about the spelling question. But recruiters are pulling up
resumes to look at according to the keywords, so maybe you could leave
esoteric terms out unless they're requested in the ad.

Kathleen

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: How do hiring companies view TW resumes?
> From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
> Date: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:23 am
> To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
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> My resume necessarily contains many arcane terms, some of which are 
> flagged by MS Word as spelling errors. (Y'all's resumes have the same 
> feature, of course.) Personally, I use MS Word's spelling correction 
> magno cum grano salis, but I've just discovered, to my surprise, that 
> some HR departments might be judging the soundness of a writer's ability 
> by MS Word's count of misspellings in his resume.
> 
> An agent at a placement firm asked me, "There seems to be a spelling 
> error here, the word 'emergy'. That should be energy, right?" The word 
> itself is cute, esoteric and unfortunate, but it was indeed the subject 
> of a thesis that I helped a PhD candidate rewrite.
> 
> I had a sinking feeling that my rejection for "perfect" job matches, 
> getting no interview where it was rather clear to me that I was the most 
> appropriate candidate, could be from my inability to spell that word 
> "correctly."
> 
> The next version of my resume will omit it.
> 
> Does anyone else have evidence that HR people might be so misaligned 
> with reality as to assume that they can spell technical terms better 
> than tech writers?
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