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Posted on : 15-04-2007 | By : admin | In : PR, ePR, PR for HR

A bit of light reading on a Sunday morning… PR Week just published an article on how 75% of job applications received by one agency contained errors. Just a shame the word ‘incompetance’ wasn’t spelt correctly in the opening sentence :-)

Tech sector faces influx of nutcases
PR Week
13 Apr 2007

More tales of incompetance over 75 per cent of the 245 direct applications received by Lighthouse PR in the past three months contained basic errors including spelling and grammatical mistakes, formatting blunders and even applications addressed to competitors.

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