4 out of 10 HR managers in Crimea will not refuse a job seeker due to errors in the resume

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Every second recruiter has a negative attitude towards resumes with errors. In a service survey SuperJob Career start Representatives of companies from Crimea took part.

In Crimea, 18% of recruiters consider grammatical and punctuation errors in a resume to be a sufficient reason for refusing an applicant for any position. For 34% of HR managers, errors in resumes are unacceptable for certain positions, most often for top and middle managers, engineers, accountants, secretaries, account managers, editors, HR managers, PR specialists, lawyers and economists. 40% of HR managers will not refuse employment to an applicant due to grammatical or punctuation errors in a resume,” noted the service’s press service.

After reviewing job openings, SuperJob identified positions that most often required high levels of written and oral communication skills. In first place is the profession of a proofreader (76% of vacancies require knowledge of the Russian language — the rest obviously take this for granted). On the second line are journalists, on the third are editors. The requirement for literacy is also found in every third vacancy for applicants for positions in the personnel field: recruiters meticulously select colleagues for HR departments.

Dates: March 29 – April 10, 2024.

Positions for which the presence of grammatical and punctuation errors in a resume is a reason for refusal (contextual analysis of respondents’ comments, in descending order of number of mentions):

1. Top and middle managers
2. Engineering and Technology
3. Accountants
4. Secretaries, office managers, personal assistants, office clerks
5. Account Managers
6. Editors, copywriters, SMM managers
7. HR managers
8. PR managers
9. Lawyers
10. Economists

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