To think it’s unacceptable that so many job adverts and person specifications have typos and incomplete sentences, like no one’s bothered to proofread them?

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I keep coming across job listings with obvious spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and sentences that just… stop halfway through. It looks unprofessional and gives the impression that the employer doesn’t really care about attention to detail.

I get that people make mistakes but surely if you’re advertising for a role, especially one that requires good communication skills, you’d make the effort to proofread? AIBU to think that job adverts should be properly checked before being posted? Or am I expecting too much?

They're showing who's boss..one rule for them ..

It's lazy and demonstrates contempt and ignorance. No excuse, unless the employer wants to create a negative impression.

I work in publishing and even our job ads have errors. It’s embarrassing!

It’s not just job adverts, it’s EVERYTHING.

It's menus in restaurants for me 😬

I imagine many of them are AI generated and no one’s checked the copy before it’s gone out.

Managers don’t care about attention to detail - that’s what they’re hiring you for!

It’s a pain to write an ad and prep for interviews etc, and they’re probably stretched otherwise there wouldn’t need to hire, so I’d cut them a bit of slack.

A local SEN school was advertising for teaching assistant’s. I couldn’t help myself, I emailed them pointing out the error. They’re still using the same advert 🙄.

AI, as a PP mentioned?

I once picked up a leaflet offering a taught MA in English Lit at our local university. There were two very basic mistakes in the blurb!

I agree, and I think there are plenty of double standards that are socially acceptable for recruiters/employers to get away with but not us as candidates. Even when you do everything ‘right’ they’ll still find any excuse to reject your application

I was looking at jobs on my local NHS page and was laughing at how many typos there were for jobs advertised for senior staff. Doesn’t make a good impression.

Seriously employers aren’t looking of excuses to reject , they’re not advertising roles just for the fun of rejecting people. It’s expensive and time consuming snd all you want is to find the right person.

If you are rejected they either have better qualified candidates than you, or they just don’t have candidates who they think sufficiently meet the job spec in which case no-one gets the role.

I have had both

• - cases where candidates who were perfectly good on paper who didn’t get any interview because we had some real stand-out candidates.
• Cases where no one interviews because no-one was good enough

🙄

There was one I passed over recently for the opposite reason, more wanky corporate bullshit than the early weeks of The Apprentice. It wasn't even a "professional" role.

It told me that I would not be compatible with the culture there.
Plus it's already an organisation that's the equivilent of a pig in lipstick

So it’s true then? …

Argghh I hate this.

My main role is as a copy editor and in my previous role, all the job ads had a standing section riddled with typos (it’s for its) but when I asked to amend it I was told we couldn’t and that our dept was too busy. Fumming.

To answer the AI query - almost certainly not AI generated. This has been an issue for years. Sadly many ppl in senior (or other) roles think it’s/its are interchangeable and don’t understand comma splices or hanging participles (where half the sentence leads nowhere bc the subject changes). And yy they want someone with excellent comms skills! Well I guess they do :)

Yes - my experience is with senior staff who think they can write and don’t appreciate feedback. It’s especially irritating when the ad calls for attention to detail.

It’s not typos. It’s listing benefits which don’t apply to certain jobs. As they copy n paste.

A few examples include cycle to work schemes for fully remote jobs. Also throw in on site gym, drinks station on every floor.

Discount on bus tickets when the location where the role is based has no public transport. Maybe other locations have PT nearby.

Saying that job is fully remote then mention “you require to visit our offices in (place) one a week” or “you need to live within X miles of (place) or live in these postcode areas. Erm that’s NOT fully remote

AI and laziness.

It is a good way to spot that the employer is not worth you wasting your time on...

Fumming were you?😂

I saw this in an advert recently:

"Role Overview: (Please personalise, make the reader belief you are talking directly to them, example below)
Due to growth...."

And then the next paragraph (the example) states a different role to the job it's meant to be advertising, so not personalised or edited at all!
Didn't make me "belief" anything 😂

Angry humming maybe?

@IDontHateRainbows @hididdlyho it's a joke. I know how to spell fuming, obvs. It's an "angry people in local newspapers" reference - "I woz fummin" 😂

A 'joke' you say....

Hmmmm chinny reckon

😂😂😂