Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

Would you resend a job application letter if you realised it had two small mistakes?

5 replies

INeedNewShoes · 09/01/2020 09:14

Title says it all really.

I was just reading over a job application I sent yesterday and have realised there are two minor errors in the letter (think a misspelled word and an erroneous comma).

Application deadline is this evening. Should I resend a corrected letter or will that just draw more attention to my stupidity?

OP posts:
StealthPolarBear · 09/01/2020 09:15

Ooh tough. On balance I wouldn't.

Dontstepinthecowpat · 09/01/2020 09:17

I don’t think you can send another unless you can withdraw application and re-submit?

You could always send an email explaining you accidentally sent a draft, please disregard blah blah.

DownWhichOfLate · 09/01/2020 09:17

No! I once got a job for which the application had a spelling mistake, something along the lines of me having: great attention to detial Shock. I’d filled in the online application whilst terribly hungover.

INeedNewShoes · 09/01/2020 09:27

DownWhichOfLate Grin glad you got the job.

I'm not going to say exactly as it's very outing but one of these errors is in a paragraph that mentions similar things. My letter is a bit too long so I'm hoping they just skim read it Blush

OP posts:
amusedbush · 09/01/2020 11:00

I got my last job after sending an application which used my married name half the time and my maiden name the rest Confused

The panel made a joke about me getting married halfway through the application but it wasn't a big deal. I had also claimed to have excellent attention to detail Blush

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread