I actually mean English spelling mistakes that you mustn’t make if you are a native English speaker, some of them are what I call “CV straight in the bin” mistakes.
- If your English should be “If you’re English” . This is the worst mistake to make, what’s more your spell checker usually won’t catch it. Although anyone can make this mistake if writing when not fully alert!
- Seperate wrong it’s Separate think “part”
- Desperate however requires the ‘e’
- Definitely doesn’t contain an ‘a’
- its (for showing possession; mistakenly written as it’s, the contraction for it is)
- Receive is correct (i before e except after c)
- Watch out for Their, There and They’re
- Weather or Whether but you will almost certainly never require Wether which is a castrated ram
Avoid the above as they imply that you did not complete formal education hence usually they cause your CV to be rejected immediately.
By the way for your amusement a sentence containing the exceptions to the i before e except after c rule.
Neither financier seized either weird species of leisure.
(BTW if you’re wondering why I target native speakers it’s because foreigners usually make completely different mistakes but not necessarily those above)