One of the first rules that recruitment experts pass on to everyone seeking professional employment is: You must have good writing skills.  Whatever you write should be accurate and easily understood.  According to a survey of professional recruiters, however, job hunters in the UK are damaging their prospects by submitting CVs with spelling and grammatical errors.

Nearly half of the recruitment agencies questioned said the majority of CVs they receive contain grammatical errors.

For many job-seekers, the mistakes start before they have even begun to chronicle their careers and achievements.

At the top of their CV they write "Curriculum Vitae" – the Latin for "course of life" – but get the spelling wrong. One applicant wrote "Kuriculam Vitay", the study said.

The misuse of the apostrophe is the most common mistake, such as a reference to "Wale's largest computer warehouse".

The survey found that errors are committed most often by younger applicants and are more common among men than women.

Almost 60% of recruiters surveyed said that including hobbies and non-work interests on a CV is “a waste of space”.

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