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Employments sagas all over the World make you cringe, reading the woes of job seekers and how recruiters treats them is not a palatable feeling. One of the Stories of this On-Top of the World Recruiter is what i shared briefly below:

"A Recruiter posted recently that he/she will not respond to mails(emails&in-mails) if his/her name is misspelled. The given was; the Recruiter implied that the inability to spell his/her name correctly is lack of intelligence and a sign of disrespect. This post had numerous Backlashes to the Recruiter, thousands of people questioning if he/she never made such or similar mistake before at the start of their career."

According to scientific studies, the inability to spell well is not an indication of a low intelligence; in fact some studies suggested that slightly higher intelligence- more than average would misspell a name and it is very unfortunate that spell checkers are not useful with names in particulars. Auto-correct on mobile devices is simply dangerous in this scenarios, so to say; spell-checkers will not help in most cases.

DOES THAT MEAN DISRESPECT?

Now, as for respect; willfully not responding to someone on the basis of s a misspelled name is the actual act of disrespect while an inadvertent mistake is not. Some job owners had lost all senses of empathy, forgetting it took them several years to get to that spot.

One of my best Engineers was a terrible speller but an excellent builder- A manager at a Manufacturing Company

It is paramount not to judge other people on the basis of spelling mistakes in job searches and interviews/screenings, generally judging others is bad. Besides, you never know what the other person is going through. However, casting doubts over an individuals intelligence and level of respect over such issues seems to be a bit of disproportionate to the real harm such an oversight might cause.

A candidate message me last week with a salutation; "Hi Helen Edwards..." i put this down as a mistake rather than a severe misspelling so i did not respond. You can usually tell if someone has made a small and genuine error- Gary Donovan, Technical Recruiter.

While others states that "If a job seeker/employee can not get something as small as spelling right, why should i trust them they would get anything else right?" It has been claimed that correct spellings shows that someone actually cares and if an individual care in a job application, they'll probably care in the job.

Though, not always the case mostly. But it is more meticulous to read the whole email or application letter before pressing send buttons or sending via a post than to get on the nerves of a recruiter. Nevertheless, what the several applicants/job seekers is going through might be responsible for any slight errors and mistakes which should not be used to judge them, you or any recruiter may be the only difference between a job and Hunger!

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