How do hiring companies view TW resumes?

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

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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