Job candidates with typo-laden resumes are up to 18.5 percentage points less likely to make it to interview, in part because they are judged by recruiters as having lower mental abilities, conscientiousness and interpersonal skills

Job candidates with typo-laden resumes are up to 18.5 percentage points less likely to make it to interview, in part because they are judged by recruiters as having lower mental abilities, conscientiousness and interpersonal skills

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283280

Article Title: Costly mistakes: Why and when spelling errors in resumes jeopardise interview chances

Author Countries: Belgium

Funding: The authors did not receive specific funding for this work.