RE: OT - Errors on cover letters

["Will Sansbury" <wsansbury -at- alpha -dot- ipswitch -dot- com>]

Lauren wrote:
> Sometimes, a person can graduate high school, from what I've seen, 
> with skills in certain areas, but not necessarily the holistic skill 
> set of adults with effective communication and comprehension skills.  
> Some skills for some people may not begin to develop until the person 
> is older.  So I think that each case of a bad resume should be 
> evaluated according to its own merits and the potential of the 
> individual presenting the resume, rather than according to the ideal 
> of what that resume presentation should be.

I really want to agree with this on some level, but ultimately, if you make
such egregious errors when presenting yourself for consideration for a job,
what sort of errors will you make when the stakes are lower?

This is why I tell everyone I know to keep their résumé up to date. It never
fails that I find a job listing that I'm interested in when there is only
forty-three minutes left until the application deadline. If you try to
compose or update your résumé in that sort of time crunch, you're very
likely to end up a "technical writer"--or worse! 

Will Sansbury
P.S. I should probably confess, too, that I am a compulsive proofreader ever
since the day I used OCR software to load text into a Web site for a
presitigious prep school, transforming the headmaster's ideas from the
"finest" into the "lamest." Luckily, I caught the error, but it'd been
posted for six months by the time I did.

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