The bad English in a lot of Jordanian graduates is probably world famous. It’s a real shame and I don’t find it amusing anymore (OK, sometimes I do 
I just read a covering letter of a job applicant who wanted to join our ‘estimated’ company.
But that still doesn’t beat the CV I received from someone applying for a job in our ‘steam’ company.
Someone needs to advise our graduates: you either learn proper English, or just submit your CV in Arabic!
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15 responses to “Another resumé disaster”
one time one of my ESL students turned in a report on Princess Di entitled the Diary of a Penis. I think I laughed for a week straight. People put WAY too much faith in spell check.
Had the “steamed company” version also last week – but the winner was a guy who applied for the “vacation” in my company
Sobhaan Allah!
I am supposed to hand in a draft of a CV for my skills tutor,
I think it would be an awesome achievement if we get to have this class in Jordanian Universities.
It’s Learning & Communication Skills, where it teaches us how to do Essays, CV’s, Summaries, Webpages, Presentations and more. I think it’s pretty essential, I am sure graduates/uni students need it so bad. I am so damn lucky to have it. Thank God
My sister’s studying Masters in Law in UJ, she was asked by her lecturer to do a presentation which is on paper, that should look like an essay but it’s basically a summary of the topic with SUBHEADINGS! Don’t you think this is a mutated task to do? LOL, I mean—El Lecturer nafso mush 3aref what’s the assignment. That’s terrible.
I wanna send you my resume, to join your ‘steaming estimated’ company! LOOOL
Hahahaha, ‘estimated’ company?
Raheeb!
I Sent u mine, it should be in proper english.
I swear to god I got the “estimated” thing two days ago!
Resumes, cover letters, C.V.’s, statements of purpose for grad schools and similar letters for undergrad admissions… kids need to have it stick in their head from high school, if you have just one spelling mistake your application will be rejected. My professor in college explained it to me, she said students have absolutely no excuse what so ever for even a single spelling mistake in their letters, they have to treat it as their first assignment in school and if they show anything less than a full grade, they shouldn’t be in.
lol @ diary of a penis
lool
It seems there was this smart colleague who everybody trusted and believed his CV is the best, so they started to copy it, edit it and submit it to the “steam” company to apply to the “vacation”
A different prospective!
Spelling is not that important! what matters is being able to do a Job and do it well, very often it is extremely easy to understand the meaning regardless of wrong spelling, as you and most people did in this case,
You mihgt fnid it azmiang taht you tloltay udnesrtnad waht I am on aubot
You used: “or just submit you CV in Arabic!”
Dose it matter? Not really!
Me personally, if I’m looking at a CV, the last thing I will pay attention to is spelling
Someone needs to advise our graduates: you either learn proper English, or just submit you CV in Arabic!
The word “Your” is missing the “R”.
Sandmonkey.. you caught me
will fix it now.
Nidal: sloppy communication is always a problem. Lack of spelling skills (or at least a proper spell check) reflects a careless approach to business. A little mistake here and another there and before you know it everything is riddled with errors.
In a lecture at university once some girl “tried” to read this line:
The teams can, and must co-operate to function properly.
what came out of her mouth was:
They talk cat, and must company to full problem.
I’m really not making this up. I swear to God, it’s like she looked at the first letter then said whatever word came to her mind first. Sad, really.
nobody’s perfect!
i bet that you ahmad have had a terrible resume when you was young!
salam
true, nobody is perfect, but the CV reflecting the person’s personality .
at least before submitting a CV he should read it for once or twice to fix any typo or grammer mistakes. specially that his job depends on this paper most of the times
I think we should stop criticizing and starting thinking creatively how to help these deprived graduates grow. They are the victims of many years of molding by the educational institutions.
Give them feedbacks.
Salam