Straight to the Trash: Why This Candidate Will Never Get Hired It’s the Lynn Hazan & Associates annual April Fool’s Day misspellings contest! Find all the misspelled words below and send us the corrections at [email protected] . Typos, incorrect homonyms, and misspelled proper nouns count as spelling errors, but other punctuation and grammar errors do not. We will draw a winner from among the correct responses received by 5:00 p.m. CDT on April 7, 2011. Winner will be announced April 8, 2011 and will receive a gift certificate to Geja’s Café in Chicago. Yes, these are all actual errors that we have received in resumes and other communication from job seekers! Dear Lynn Hammond: I asked a former colleague for a referrel to a communications recruiter, and she suggested your firm. My experience is in communications and media relations. I have accomplished busienss writing skills and many contacts with local and national media. My most recent position was Director of Purblic Relations with a starup firm. Statups can be volatile, as you know, and when the firm was purchased, are team was apart of the layoffs. Since I was layed off, I have had several contract assignments, and I have enjoyed this hand-ons work. Everyday is different, and it has helped me keep my skills current. However, it is tuff to acquire new clients in this economy, and thus I am definitley interested in full-time positions. I am currently perusing my MBA in bran management at Northwestern Universities Scool of Continuing Studies. I have undertakled this program and continue to use any

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It’s the Lynn Hazan & Associates annual April Fool’s Day misspellings contest! Find all the misspelled words below and send us the corrections at [email protected]. Typos, incorrect homonyms, and misspelled proper nouns count as spelling errors, but other punctuation and grammar errors do not. We will draw a winner from among the correct responses received by 5:00 p.m. CDT on April 7, 2011. Winner will be announced April 8, 2011 and will receive a gift certificate to Geja’s Café in Chicago. Yes, these are all actual errors that we have received in resumes and other communication from job seekers!

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Straight to the Trash: Why This Candidate Will Never Get Hired

It’s the Lynn Hazan & Associates annual April Fool’s Day misspellings contest! Find all the misspelled words below and send us the corrections

at [email protected]. Typos, incorrect homonyms, and misspelled proper nouns count as spelling errors, but other punctuation and grammar

errors do not. We will draw a winner from among the correct responses received by 5:00 p.m. CDT on April 7, 2011. Winner will be announced April

8, 2011 and will receive a gift certificate to Geja’s Café in Chicago.

Yes, these are all actual errors that we have received in resumes and other communication from job seekers!

Dear Lynn Hammond:

I asked a former colleague for a referrel to a communications recruiter, and she suggested your firm. My experience is in communications and media relations. I have accomplished busienss writing skills and many contacts with local and national media.

My most recent position was Director of Purblic Relations with a starup firm. Statups can be volatile, as you know, and when the firm was purchased, are team was apart of the layoffs. Since I was layed off, I have had several contract assignments, and I have enjoyed this hand-ons work. Everyday is different, and it has helped me keep my skills current. However, it is tuff to acquire new clients in this economy, and thus I am definitley interested in full-time positions.

I am currently perusing my MBA in bran management at Northwestern Universities Scool of Continuing Studies. I have undertakled this program and continue to use any resources at my desposal to expand my network. As I have several years of experience in the food industry, I have reached out to my contacts in that field, particularly at the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board and the United Diary Industry.

Lynn, I am a boomeer in transition. My top choise would be to work for a cutting edge firm with an entrepreneurial spit. I would like to run accompany again and I would be willing to move any where in the country for the right opportunity. To be strait with you, I am none to happy with the opportunities presented to me by my outplacement firm. I would appreciate any advise you have on my resume or search.

Sincerely,

Candidate

mailto:[email protected]

2011 marks the 12th year of Lynn Hazan & Associates, a Chicago recruiting firm specializing in marketing and communications searches. We place candidates in full-time, part-time and temporary positions with agencies, corporations and non-profits. LH&A also offers services for candidates, including Resume Review and Interviewing Tips sessions, workshops, and the one-on-one Empowered Job Seeker program.