Dear Mark, I am sorry, but I do not agree.
According to me, you are not judged by the spelling mistakes, but by the
attention and care you are putting in your cover letter or resumè. If
you do not use extra five minutes to review your cover letter (and now
computers have wonderful automatic grammar check), that shows the level
of your interest in the job you are applying to (and, why not, your
respect for the person that is going to read it). 

I am Italian, in the United States with a Visa, and I can assure you
that, at least in Italy, we are warned to use care in writing our cover
letters as well. Nobody claims that you have to know your language
grammar perfectly, but that, at least, you take a dictionary to verify
your doubts. This shows a serious attitude, which, I believe, is
appreciated, everywhere ...

My best,

Angelica

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>What is not acceptable are typos in your cover letter!
>  Happens all the time and sadly is usually cause to disregard a
resume.
>


You have just demonstrated the very worst of America.  Perhaps I am just
not
on the level of personnel managers and headhunters who never make
mistakes,
so maybe it is appropriate to throw out my resume because I've mispelled
something in my cover letter.  That of course is the true measure of a
good
designer/manager (like myself) -- that I never make a spelling mistake.

Other parts of the world are not so insecure and self-important to judge
a
candidate by his/her spelling or the paper stock used, but thank God we
in
America know what is important!

I am so disappointed in how petty, mechanized, non-thinking and plain
stupid
American business practice became during my seven year sojourn overseas.


Mark C. Cohen
Design, Technical and Management Services

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