# Don't be afraid of typing mistakes

Category: Jobs and Employment

## Post 1 by Pure love (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 09-Jun-2006 5:10:45

Hi all. As some of you know, I am currently applying for a few jobs as a foreign language secretary. While browsing through the net looking for jobs, I found that people, while describing the job they offer, make a lot of typing mistakes. For example, I saw yesterday that someone wrote "Sectretary" instead of "Secretary". "Oragnization" instead of "Organization". And, the oddest thing I have seen: Someone put a question mark after *every* sentence, without caring if it is a question or not. Isn't this odd? So, this somehow takes away my fear that I would do too many typos.

## Post 2 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Friday, 09-Jun-2006 12:24:23

I often look up information for work on web sites. I have found that people who prepare information for web sites are not necessarily good typists or spellers. It really bothers me the most when I am trying to find the proper spelling for a product such as a piece of adaptive equipment. Even the web site for the particular company may have the item spelled different ways within the same article or web site page. Especially those product names that have cutesy spellings or where what would normally be two words is put together as one where sometimes the second word is capitalized and sometimes not. It's hard to know how to spell a product in a report I am typing if I can't even find it spelled consistently one way on the company's own web site.

## Post 3 by Susanne (move over school!) on Friday, 09-Jun-2006 12:35:56

Yeah... I have this terrible illness by which I can't read past a spelling/typing mistake without noticing it :-). It's all my dad's fault; he kept pointing them out when I was a kid. *grin* Seriously, it doesn't really bug me in everyday life, and I don't usually feel the need to point it out, but in official documents or newspapers or such, spelling mistakes really do take away from the credibility of the publication, somehow. They make it less trustworthy.

## Post 4 by Pure love (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 09-Jun-2006 15:25:13

Susane, I agree. But typing mistakes in job advertisements ... they somehow encourage me a bit. Cause they show that I don't have to be the perfect typist.

## Post 5 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Tuesday, 13-Jun-2006 18:03:19

Sometimes when i am on a site where i am more than lightly going to by something, i am put off by the bad spelling. If a company really can't be fcked to run there site through a spell checker, do i really wanna trust them with £xx or £xxx?
BEN.