{"id":1075,"date":"2007-07-18T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/spell-check-turned-off\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T07:00:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T12:00:40","slug":"spell-check-turned-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/spell-check-turned-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Spell Check Turned Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if there is a worst place to have a spelling error than in the title of an online ad.  The title from an ad I read this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inside Sales- Excellent Growth Opprotunity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My thought that it was an oversight ended when I opened the ad &#8211; the first line of the ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inside Sales- Excellent Growth Opprotunities<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We posted last year about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/resume-errors\/\">resume errors<\/a> and the effect it has on a candidate&#8217;s opportunities.  Well, obvious errors in the ad can stifle responses.  My initial thought was that this company lacks detail &#8211; probably a loosely-run ship.  The irony here is that the company provides a service that requires a strong attention to detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if there is a worst place to have a spelling error than in the title of an online ad. The title from an ad I read this morning: Inside Sales- Excellent Growth Opprotunity My thought that it was an oversight ended when I opened the ad &#8211; the first line of the ad: Inside Sales- Excellent Growth Opprotunities We posted last year about resume errors and the effect it has on a candidate&#8217;s opportunities. Well, obvious errors in the ad can stifle responses. My initial thought was that this company lacks detail &#8211; probably a loosely-run ship. The irony here is that the company provides a service&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/spell-check-turned-off\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-ads"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1351,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/more-job-ad-errors\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":0},"title":"More Job Ad Errors","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, I know it is a holiday week so people are cruising at half speed, but there is no room for some errors.\u00a0 Spelling mistakes in the title is inexcusable.\u00a0 The title is the only information that is displayed on most job boards so you can see the significance of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":562,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/typos-in-the-ad\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":1},"title":"Typos In The Ad","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We posted about typos in resumes back in September and mentioned a significant survey result: Eighty-four percent of executives polled said it takes just one or two typographical errors in a resume to remove a candidate from consideration for a job opening; 47 percent said a single typo could be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":596,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/spell-check-sloppiness\/","url_meta":{"origin":1075,"position":2},"title":"Spell-check Sloppiness","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"January 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We've discussed the candidate faux pas of spelling errors in their resume. 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