The most-misspelled words on résumés and in job ads
Here’s proof that job applications and calls for applicants need a second, third or fourth look.
• principles (this appears to be spelled correctly, but it’s how BI reported it) • diagnostic (dianostic) • volunteer (voulunter) • assisting (assiating) • applying (apllying) • recently (resently) • assembled (assembeld) • profits (proffitts) • children (childen) • maintenance (mainteance) • efficiently (efficently) • preparation (prepration) • distinct (distict) • excessively (excessivly) • judgment (judjement) • spectrometry (spectrometery) • schedule (schuele)
So run and grab your résumé for a good old-fashioned human spellcheck.
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