Small mistakes in emails

David6330

In October I applied for a job with a company and was informed that the job was filled. Before Christmas I got an email back from them wanting me to come and do an interview for another job.

I have been in contact through e-mail. In two of my emails I have made the same small mistakes. I rephrased sentences and left in a word or two that shouldn't be there.

I am wondering are these type of mistakes enough to give the employer a bad impression of me?

paddydriver

Yes - but depends on the job; if its a job that your going to be interacting with customers and can't get mails right when trying to get the job, then employer is going to be worried about quality of mails you will send out when working for them.

If its a case that e-mail does not form part of your job then can't see it as being as big an issue. Its common now that people add a signature when replying to mails on Blackberry's/iPhones etc so say "Sorry for any mistakes - was sent from my iPhone" etc but for applying for a job that would not really be a good excuse.

Some employers always have little things that they judge people on and presentation such as this is common; I even remember dealing with one guy that always first looked at the person's shoe's to determine if they were suitable for the job - i.e. if shoe's were in bad nick then no job for them.

Sorry to hear you didn't get the job.

Mr. Loverman

If you were applying for a QA job it would go against you.

It might also go against you if it was a customer facing job (i.e. a job where you will have to send e-mails).

But it really depends on the person who read your e-mails. Some people don't care about grammar, spelling mistakes, etc.

KylieWyley

Don't worry about the mistakes.

Concentrate on the fact they've thought of you for another job opening - congrats

Mrs OBumble

KylieWyley wrote: »

Don't worry about the mistakes.

Concentrate on the fact they've thought of you for another job opening - congrats

+1

You can't do anything about them now.

Concentrate on worrying about things you can change, not things you can't.

fyi, when I'm writing an important email, I always put some garbage (werkewdsklj) into the cc field until I'm 100% certain it's ready to go. It stops me accidentally pressing the Send button before I should.

Malice

JustMary wrote: »

fyi, when I'm writing an important email, I always put some garbage (werkewdsklj) into the cc field until I'm 100% certain it's ready to go. It stops me accidentally pressing the Send button before I should.

That's a good tip actually. I've never thought about doing that until now.

Irish_Elect_Eng

David6330 wrote: »

In October I applied for a job with a company and was informed that the job was filled. Before Christmas I got an email back from them wanting me to come and do an interview for another job.

I have been in contact through e-mail. In two of my emails I have made the same small mistakes. I rephrased sentences and left in a word or two that shouldn't be there.

I am wondering are these type of mistakes enough to give the employer a bad impression of me?

Yes:(, if you did not take the time to run a spell-check or re-read your communications for an important event like a job application, then how could they be sure that you would do so on a communication to a customer or in a contract, etc. But the impact would be greater in written communication as people tend to be less literate when writing emails.

Lux23

I always type my emails in word and spell check it fully before I copy and paste it into the email, makes things so much easier.