should I care - shocking spelling, grammar in nanny CVs

[chandellina]

My son is only one so I care much more about a nanny's nature than her grammar, but I am still pretty shocked by some of the CVs I've been getting from otherwise qualified and experienced nannies. Do they not have someone proofread their CVs, or even run a spell check? Am I being snobbish or is this a sign of unprofessionalism?

and i've agreed out of desperation to interview someone who is "there nanny" and who "prepairs" food. the one with "fist aid training" may be a typo too far though.

Sorry, should have elaborated

I described my current job and my last paid job, which was PGL. That got it down to two pages easily. I only done the original 6 pages so that I could fill everything out (using that CV builder lol), and then I polished it all down and got rid of irrelevant job information for the childcare positions (saved it though so that if I went for a shop position at the weekends I could delete the childcare bits obvs I cheat!)

I asked what they wanted me to put in and they said bullets of my duties in each position. Why would my charity shop and volunteer in a pool tuck shop job be of any relevance to a childcare position rolls eyes I emailed back asking why they would need details on my two completely irrelevant positions apart from the basic "work in tuck shop serving customers sweets and drinks" and "work in the shop out back organising donated goods" with dates but they haven't gotten back to me. This was well over a week ago now which makes me think that yet another website has dropped me! And this one was an agency!

Getting fed up with this couple job bollocks! I give up and will go back to PGL instead

To be fair Chandelina, if the person who made those errors had run a spell check, only ?prepair? would have been highlighted.

As for periods/full stops and quotation marks/inverted commas - if the full stop is part of the quotation itself, it goes inside the quotation marks; if it governs the sentence as a whole rather than the material being quoted, it goes outside the quotation marks. This appears to be as true of American English as of British English.

But to be fair, the grammar check would highlight the other bits, like there/their/they're... at least mine does I'm sure of it? I tend not to need that function though

Great minds think alike ! lol
Twas me that started the thread on NJ

Glad I am not the only one to @ many CV's / job ads online

shocking
on a forum or an informal etc then fine,often typed quickly etc
but a CV should be well laid out and correctly spelled etc!

also agree with the spoken language too,hate it when people do not pronounce the H or T in a word / at beginning of word etc argh!

*informal email etc !

My CV is 5 pages long and everyone I've ever shown it to has loved it . It's not your run of the mill CV, more pictures and arty stuff. I've even been offered positions on the strength of my CV lone. It took hours to do my CV so no I do not think YABU to expect a more professional approach from your potential nanny.

When I made a living as a freelance proofreader, I used a paragraph in my advertising material that went something like this:

'Do yew knead a proofreader two cheque you?re work! Know aye don?t think sew. If there are any mistakes, ewe can use spell cheque?'

Apart from 'proofreader' (spell check prefers proof-reader), no spelling mistakes there! Although the grammar check used to suggest 'Does ewe' or 'do ewes' instead of 'do ewe'.

Luckylou, my gods, you'd expect the grammar thing to pick that up surely?!

I hate the now/know thing rolls eyes