Don't Let Careless Cover Letter Errors Torpedo You

Continuing our series on a survey on cover letters conducted by Robin Ryan, author of Winning Cover Letters. Ryan notes, “Managers repeatedly said, ‘I stop reading when I see typos and spelling mistakes.’ “Stephanie, a human resource manager, who has hired over 500 people confirmed, ‘Once I see a typo I know that this is NOT a person we want to hire into our organization.’ “Don’t rely on spell-checkers,” Ryan advises. “Proofread very carefully since spell-checkers correct misspellings but they don’t correct wrong word usages such as using ‘sea’ when you meant to write ‘see.’”