I was reading through my resume this morning, trying to make it more up to date and all that, when I started finding little errors here and there. The spacing was wrong for those two lines, that hyphen should have been an en dash, the tense in that sentence wasn't parallel... It would be fine and all if this were my first resume and I were applying for a position at the circus. But it isn't, and I'm not. No, I'm applying for an editorial position at a college, where my copyediting skills and ability to produce cohesive speech would be paramount to my deserving the job, and my resume will be picked over by a perceptive, sharp-eyed editor trained in catching even the smallest typographical errors.
But despite my cringing and wincing after every error I fixed, I couldn't help but smile too, because really, it's okay that I can't write anything perfectly on the first attempt. I mean, that's what editing is for, right? So cleaning up my original mistakes just proves my ability to do the job.
In fact, for a moment there I considered presenting a before/after sampling of my resume -- just to give the editor who will be reading it a chance to view my abilities first-hand. Then I saw my name at the top: Cami;la Parshall.
One resume should be just fine, I think.
You shouldn't make me laugh out loud at work. People stop and stare at me, Cami;la. And by the way, how exactly is that pronounced?
ReplyDeleteThat's super awesome. I'm glad I'm not the only one who misspells my name on papers. I usually get it right if I hand write it, but there are no guarantees.
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