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?

https://angrypeople.myspreadshop.co.uk/fummin+-+angry+people+in+local+newspapers?idea=5a246eb55fd3e41caa43b2ec

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I think many companies just use AI or copy and paste these days. Or some companies are using agencies that do those things.

I’m a dental hygienist and saw a job advert for a dental therapist (they can do fillings as well but often practices will advertise for a therapist but only want a hygienist). Anyway I looked at it and the job description was for an actual therapist/mental health support worker. But the employer was a dental surgery. It was up for ages until I contacted them to let them know and they said they had used an agency and wondered why they didn’t have any applicants.

I think most people here with half a brain will get the 'fumming' thing. Certainly nothing 'chinny reckon' about it. I knew exactly what that poster was doing as did, I'm sure, the vast majority of others. No 'gotcha' here I'm afraid.

In my line of work managers are generally so over worked and burnt out that meticulously proof reading a job advert is low on the agenda. Also I expect a lot are written by AI now.

Same goes for applicants, some CV's are littered with errors be it spelling, punctuation, grammar etc. but if you were to judge someone on this alone you'd end of skipping some great candidates.

Don't judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree is something I hold dear, if someone makes a few spelling mistakes I'm not going to drag them over the coals for it, it doesn't make them any less intelligent. In fact those that are snobbish about spelling and grammar tend to be the most emotionally un-intelligent people I work with...

I work for a FTSE 100 company, HR have very little involvement in recruitment.

I used to have a team of people who wrote commercial proposals - bids to get work. The standard of English was quite often abysmal, and I made a big deal of it.

The response tended to be 'everyone knows what it means. No one cares about this stuff except people like you...'

To which I'd reply, "The person who reads this might be someone like me. And I'm telling you, I wouldn't read past page one. You've put three weeks' work into this. Why risk it getting tossed aside because you've used 'there' when you mean 'their'?"

It always used to confuse me that people would press so hard to get training to improve their skills in all sorts of areas - presentations, Powerpoint, new technology - but if you suggested that they might like to go on a course to improve their written English, they'd get very indignant, or dismissive, or full-on offended.

The reacton was very 'bolshy adolescent' - which was a clue, I think.

When you criticise someone's use of English, you often trigger a repressed memory of being humiliated at school by some patronising teacher who made you feel stupid.

"Should OF? How many times do I have to tell you? This is primary school stuff!"

Not all teachers, obviously. But enough that a lot of adults simply want nothing to do with improving their written English, because the hell with Mr fucking Edwards.

I mean, in some ways, fair enough. I feel the same about swimming because of Lumpy Lampeter.

You should see the state of some of the emails from my son's head of year!!

A teacher who has no idea of the difference between their/there/they're, to name just one of her issues.

You're quick to judge, but this person may have any number of neuro divergent traits. It doesn't mean they are stupid.

If their subject matters were English I'd be concerned, but if it were maths or science I would not.

Again - do not judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree...

I saw a newspaper article about a school closing down. Parents were protesting, carrying a sign which said "Save are school". The first comment underneath pointed out that the parent who wrote it should go back to school!

That's awful.

Yep. Her latest email to me started with "I have know spoken to...."

Good God.

I find this is common place amongst southerners who pronounce our as are and subsequently spell it incorrectly.

I recently saw a job advertised for a nursery called Bright Begginings, and chocolate was spelt wrong on BBC Breakfast yesterday.

I'm in the north so that's no excuse here, as our is usually pronounced ow-wer! One exception is Liverpool where they pronounce it are. I'd not thought of that reason before, I bet you're right (or your write 😂).

YANBU. It gives an extremely poor first impression. Not somewhere I would bother applying to unless I was desperate.

You are completely right, OP, and I would not work for a company that was so lax.