To be seriously pissed off at DH?

[WriterofDreams]

DH's contract ends in November and he's been applying for other jobs. I'm currently on maternity leave but don't have a job to go back to so once his contract is up, that's it, unless I look for something new. I was hoping to be a SAHM and DH was ok with this. He's sent out loads of CVs but today got a reply from one job saying they're rejecting his application as there are too many grammar and spelling mistakes. I had a look at the CV and they're right it's full of mistakes. I am absolutely shitting it that the same mistakes appear in all the CVs although he assures me he used different versions. I'm not convinced. Usually he gets me to proofread things as his spelling is poor so I don't know why he didn't do it this time.

I know he's pissed at himself and I do feel sorry for him in a way but I can't help feeling very very annoyed. AIBU?

Is it that you don't think he's trying as hard as he should be?

Any reason he doesn't want another job just now?

I don't think it's that he doesn't want another job - he's very keen to find one. I'm just annoyed that he is very aware of his problems with spelling and he didn't ensure his CVs were right before he sent them out. As far as I can tell we might as well write off all the jobs he's applied to so far as his CVs will be rejected :(

I think come November if he's still out of work it's going to be hard to be a sahm
you'll both need to look for work and take whatever you can get
I know but that's the reality of the situation , better not to pin your hopes on something that might not happen

I think YABU.
If he had been all blase about it and not bothered then I would have been pissed off, but seeing as it was a genuine mistake and he is reallly cross at himself I would go easy on him. He wont do it again.
Offer to help him re-write the CVs and go through ideas with him on other companies he can send off the new updated version to.

I think you're right followme, the poor thing is so dejected. I just think it's such a silly mistake to make and I can't help feeling annoyed as it adds so much to our stress.

We usually proof-read one another's applications and CVs. It's easy to make a mistake, or a few even when you have read the document a few times and used a spell checker.

altinkum I'm not sure legally but I've always been advised by HR depts when sifting through CVs that poor spelling and grammar is a perfectly acceptable excuse for rejecting an application. It's not discriminating against dyslexics, because they are expected to take additional recourse to ensure their CV is correct, just as someone for whom English is a second language would, e.g. get someone to proof-read. When confronted with 50 applications for one job, you simply have to demonstrate that the people who you put forward for interview were more suitable than others, based upon ability to do the job, so poor spelling is a reason, whereas a foreign sounding name or their age is not.

Like I say, I can't quote employment law, chapter and verse, but I go with what HR advise me.

He isn't diagnosed as dyslexic though I think he probably should have been. A lot of the jobs he would be going for would require quite a high level of literacy and usually he is very careful to check things before submitting them (I proofread a lot of his stuff) but in this case he was careless about it.