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Avoiding Writing Errors When Going After A Job
Writing errors can make or break business and professional opportunities in ways many folks don’t realize. As such, they commit the simplest of avoidable writing travesties, then wonder later how they failed to land a job.
No matter how qualified you are, if you don’t own the attention to detail necessary with your writing to go along with it, you can be looking at plenty of missed opportunities. That’s exactly what happened to one yoga expert we were interviewing back when I used to work with an online magazine. We needed an in-house resource on the subject and one applicant’s qualifications stood out way apart from the rest. Despite the impressive credentials, though, she didn’t get the job – all because her cover application alone had three grammar errors on it.
Can you imagine not getting a job based on non-directly-related reasons, such as a poorly-written cover letter or email? While it can be argued that the qualified person should still get the job, I beg to differ. The three prominent grammar errors on the cover letter indicate glaring problems – lack of attention to detail, a relative indifference to getting the job and he propensity to let avoidable problems slip by.
How easy would it have been to use an English writing software to scan through that copy and catch those three mistakes? It would have taken less than five minutes, from the moment you launch the software to the time you approve the last update. Anyone who refuses to do that, in my book, just doesn’t want the job bad enough – and, as such, won’t get it.
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