I do know that lot of people bin CVS, cote. Some out of genuine need to select for those qualities and many of out bias.
But, you know, time was when binning CVs from women, or Irish people, or black men, was also considered a 'reality' everyone should just learn to understand. In fact, I don't think that time has passed, but I think people realize how it sounds to pretend it's normal.
My impression on this thread and others is that some people genuinely do not realize they might be being disablist to bin CVs with typos. They honestly think they are simply doing it to whittle down the pool of applicants in a sensible and reasonable manner.
Many people, therefore - as on this thread - believe that you cannot succeed if you are disabled, because you will fall at the first cull. Or - more damagingly, IMO - they do not really believe in disability, so they think you can magically learn your way out of it, like regrowing a leg.
I don't know if this helps to show that proofreading is not simple, but here's the list of people who proofread parts or all of my thesis:
- me.
- four senior lecturers, one of whom proof-read 60,000 words in a week before submission. I owe her a lot.
- one professor at Oxford
- one author and ex-academic.
- one journalist.
- nine friends, all with degrees of MA or PhD or above.
- three professional proofreaders.
- two dyslexia specialists.
And yet, I never got all the mistakes out of it. This is not because all of those people were stupid, or because I wilfully ignored their help. It's because it's really, genuinely not that easy. At some point, you have to give up and realize there might be more important things than SPAG.
I was so, so thankful my job application made provision to ignore that. It gives me hope that other people who're dyslexic won't need to lean on such a ridiculously long list of proof readers, and might just be able to ask people to ignore the SPAG errors and concentrate on the content.
I wish people would do this more often with job applications, but the fact that someone bothered to do it for mine seems to me good evidence that we could stop pretending that binning CVs with errors is something acceptable.