{"id":40481,"date":"2014-01-08T07:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/grammar-police-and-hiring-decisions.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T15:12:10","slug":"grammar-police-and-hiring-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/grammar-police-and-hiring-decisions.html","title":{"rendered":"Grammar Police and Hiring Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"
I don't go so far as to give people grammar tests, but I will say that proper grammar and spelling on resumes and cover letters plays something of a gatekeeper role in the hiring process for me. \u00a0After all, if you can't avoid or check-spot-correct such problems on such documents (even if that means having someone else look it over), is it because you're incapable of doing so or that you aren't all that serious about the application?<\/p>\n

It's not zero tolerance for me, but it plays a big role in the first impression.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Jonathon Barton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the face of it, my zero tolerance approach to grammar errors might seem a little unfair. After all, grammar has nothing to do with job performance, or creativity, or intelligence, right?<\/i><\/p>\n

Wrong. If it takes someone more than 20 years to notice how to properly use \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d then that\u2019s not a learning curve I\u2019m comfortable with<\/b>. So, even in this hyper-competitive market, I will pass on a great programmer who cannot write.<\/i>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why.<\/a>
\n If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter…\n <\/p>\n

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I don't go so far as to give people grammar tests, but I will say that proper grammar and spelling on resumes and cover letters plays something of a gatekeeper role in the hiring process for me. \u00a0After all, if you can't avoid or check-spot-correct such problems on such documents (even if that means having … Continue reading “Grammar Police and Hiring Decisions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-job-jollies","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27026,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/is-a-grammar-mistake-that-everyone-makes-actually-a-mistake.html","url_meta":{"origin":40481,"position":0},"title":"Is a grammar mistake that everyone makes actually a mistake?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Mar-12 11:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, don't get me wrong -- I'm as rules-based and anal as any Lawful Good snot could be about things like grammar. 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