Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Spelling & Resumes (Part 2)

Yesterday's blog post talked about how bad a misspelling on a resume can be.  Have you wondered what are the most common misspelled words on resumes?  If so, check out these links!

http://www.pongoresume.com/blogPosts/111/top-100-misspelled-words-in-resumes.cfm

http://www.oet.ky.gov/des/vws/resume/commonly_misspelled_words.asp

After visiting the second link shown above, which 5 words jumped out at you?  (HINT: A great way to learn the spelling of commonly misspelled words is to use a flashcard & to study it a few times a day.  Read the word out loud & then spell it, letter-by-letter.  If you do that 3-4 times a day, for 5-7 days, you will start to know that word by memory & be less likely to misspell it in the future!)

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

The five words that jumped out at me are:

Definately
Experience
Financially
Guarantee
Preference

Lia Muth

Anonymous said...

The words that most frequently I made mistakes are:

- Criticize
- Disappoint
- Knowledge
- Successful
- Writing

November 04, 2009

Roxana Alvarez

Anonymous said...

The five words for me are:
Experiance
Grammar
Questionnaire
Recommend
Tendency


April S.

Anonymous said...

Sandra H.

The five that jumped out at me are;

1. convenience
2. apparent
3. descendant
4. mortgage
5. possess

Anonymous said...

The five (5) words that jumed out at me are:

* benefiting
* jewelry
* judgment
* privilege
* villain

Verona

Anonymous said...

5 words that jumped out to me were:

all right
accidentally
adequately
auxiliary
acquaintance

Melissa Lobsinger

Anonymous said...

mirlene

exaggerate

affect

conscientious

distinguish

description

Anonymous said...

First, the first page pretty much got me with loose and lose, because that is something I have to double check often.

The five words that jumped out to me are:

1.all right
2.escape
3.catalogue
4.benifiting
5.amateur


SHENEA WALKER

Anonymous said...

The five words that grabbed me were all shocking. I just knew I was a good speller (lol). This was an eye opener. Here they are:
Correct Spelling Mine
1. Pastime Past-time
2. Bureaucracy Not even close!
3. Inoculate Innoculate
4. questionnaire Questionaire
5. All Right Alright
Carol Willis

Anonymous said...

The five words that jumped out at are:
Expedient
Necessity
Unanimous
Conscientious
Description

Dorothea M.

Anonymous said...

Five words that jumped out at me are as follows:

1. equipped
2. facsimile
3. License
4. Souvenir
5. embarrassed

Deidra W

Anonymous said...

Mianta

The five words that jump out at me are:

Guarantee

Successful

Tendency

Mortgage

Villain

Mianta

Anonymous said...

I found the site helpful, that is a good resource to have for misspelled words. My five words that jumped out at me are

adequately
expedient
distinguish
beneficiary
criticism

Angela