Error on Resume

Submitted by Carmen Mieles
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Career Management

Here is one that I have not yet seen covered. I have been interviewing with a company and have made it to the face to face panel interview with several managers and directors. I have found that my resume has a couple of spelling errors not caught by my helper nor by the H.R. department at the company I'm interviewing for. My resume was uploaded to their website and then had to be cut and pasted into their format. Do I bring this up to the attention of the Managers and Directors or do I wait for them to mention it? Will they believe its due to some odd error on the cut and paste? My original feeling is to let them know and provide the panel with a new printed resume? Is this correct?

Submitted by John Hack on Friday October 17th, 2008 9:00 am

The goal of the resume is to get you the interview.

You got the interview.

Forget the resume. Why focus their attention on your past mistakes?

John

Submitted by BJ Marshall on Friday October 17th, 2008 12:27 pm

Error on Resume

If you got the interview (congratulations, by the way, on making to this stage!), that means they either 1) didn't notice themselves, or 2) don't care.

Like JHack said, don't sweat the past. Focus on nailing the interview. Did you get the [url=http://www.manager-tools.com/category/interviewing-series/]Interviewing Series[/url]?

Best of luck!
BJ

Submitted by Anton Federkiewicz on Friday October 17th, 2008 12:45 pm

Error on Resume

You may or may not have a strike against you. All the more reason to NAIL the interview. Preparation is the key. Go for it! Nobody remembers that the batter had two strikes against him before he hit it out of the park.

Congratulations.

Submitted by Carmen Mieles on Friday October 17th, 2008 5:26 pm