You sent your resume with a typo Get over it

You sent your resume with a typo Get over it Heres some career advice Im sick of reading: Dont have typos in your resume. If you need to read that advice to know you shouldnt have typos in your resume then you are unemployable. My friend Ben pointed out that when Colin Powell resigned, he typed his own letter at his home computer to keep the resignation a secret. But the White House sent the letter back because it had a typo. I wish the lesson here were that you always get a second chance. But no one will give your resume back to you to fix. So instead the lesson is that everyone makes typos. Its human. It is near impossible to not have a typo in a resume at some point because weve all read our resume five hundred times, and its ineffective to proofread something youve reread so much. On top of that, job hunting is often a repetitive, boring task, so its no surprise that people copy and paste and put the wrong employer name in the salutation all the time. So theres nothing you can do to fix a typo if the resume is sent. You look bad resending a resume to a hiring manager and saying I had a typo in my resume. Most likely the person wont notice the typo anyway unless it is in his name. Even if you are applying for a proofreader job, its not going to help to resend the resume. The job of a proofreader is to catch the error before he hits send. A lot of polls say recruiters will dump a resume in the garbage if theres one typo. I dont believe it. First, all typos are not equal. But also, a sales person with a typo is different than a technical writer with a typo. While a technical writer should be detail-oriented, the skills that make a good sales person dont necessarily make a good proofreader. So if you send a resume with a typo, hope the recruiter doesnt notice, and try not to do it again. Move on. But you should consider hiring a resume writing service to write your resume. You can trust a top company to not have a typo. There are a million reasons to hire someone to help you with your resume. Its a very important document and its very hard to write yourself because youre too close to the information on many levels, not just in terms of spelling. That said, I hired a top resume writing company and then later made some changes in my resume and, of course, sent it out a couple of times with typos. Maybe it was a good thing, though. Because to be honest, if anyone ever hired me for being detail-oriented, they would be disappointed. Its important to know your strengths. I know who to hire to compensate for my shortcomings. And now, years later, I know not to mess with what those experts come up with.