beejay
Established Member
I agree with Brad on this one. I'm a headhunter by profession and the people I look for are middle managers up to director level. Quite often, graduates will be required for the positions.
Some of the CV's I receive at times beggar belief, grammar, spelling and punctuation are quite often no better than poor and were I to put such CVs in front of Clients, they would quickly be despatched to the waste bin. I invariably have to rework CVs before I submit them for consideration.
I also find quite often at preliminary interview that arithmetic can cause problems. The ability to add, multiply, divide and subtract without a calculator seems to be a skill that is in serious decline.
Maybe its an age thing maybe its a social thing,, too much TV, too much PC or gameboy, calculators at school, no more family meals, who can say?
I do however notice in my line of work that the basics I learned at school and the art of effective communication appear to be missing from the skill sets in many of the people I come across.
Very sad.
