daugen
Super Star Member
Okay, so I'm not perfect either. As an employer I don't expect perfection. I do expect effort. I did not see any effort in that sentence.
My point is, if he is going to use social media as a job seeking tool, more effort needs to be made, and employers do notice things like spelling and capitalization. I wasn't able to get past that to ask the questions about his skill set, or what he is looking for.
I had this same thing happen with the young son of one of my oldest friends. He gets an entry job pitching electric utility promotions, and sends me a text which was fifty percent acronyms which I didn't understand. (LOL...)
The problem is that he totally turned me off with his first attempt. I wrote him, told him what he was doing wrong, how to be more successful and the next letter I got was understandable. All good, even if I had to embarrass
him a little, all for his own good. He has some learning disabilities, but is plenty smart enough to know where the spell/grammar checker is.
So brain55, you're absolutely right. And once you put "crap" out there, it doesn't go away even if you "clean up your act". If you posted junk previously, Google is ruthless finding it.