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1. Here are some blunders taken from job applications. Look them through and try to find the mistakes.

Some of the blunders

• Address: ...East Grinsread.

• Skills: attention to detail.

• I no you are probably really busy but 1 am looking to get a job in the PR industry. I poses good communication skills and i have a great grounding to work within an office environment

• My life doesn't just consist offun and games, I do a little work as well, . but that's only when I'm hot partying!

• Excuse me, but I was surfing the internet when I have seen something strange on the web. I want to join you.

• Please tell me exactly what it is your company does, so thai I send my resume. Im more than interested in joining your firm.

Good afternoon, I am sending you my C. V., as I am looking to gain relvant experience with-in a company like yours. I await you reply, May thanks.

4. Complete the following sentences.

I. Because of the student howlers the majority of "sloppy" job aplications go ... .

2.When it comes to landing jobs a great member of graduates fall at the first hurdle because of... .

3.Many candidates fail at the interview stage because ....

4. As the research showed 9 out of 10 graduates and final-year students were rejected a job because of... .

5. In 2002 the average individual debt of graduates for tuition feels was ... .

6. Too many graduates' curriculum vitae betrayed ....

7.Universities need to earn their increased tuition fees by ... .

8. One of the PR company's founder thinks the falling standard of literacy is

The student howlers '9 in 10 'sloppy'Job applications go straight in the bin.

They are supported to be the cream of the education system. But when it comes to landing jobs the vast majority of graduates fall at the first hurdle because of sloppy spelling and grammar, research shows.

A study of 1,000 written job applications'found that nine out o!' ten graduates and final-year-students were rejected because of basic errors in their first few words.

Seventeen spelling mistakes were found in a single covering letter while a number of candidates addressed applications to the wrong person or referred to the wrong job.

One hopeful blew his chances with the over-the-top declaration: 'I exist! I live! Seize me!'

Another had burnt the edges of his curriculum vitae, saying: As you can see from the single marks on my application, I'm red hot.' Many candidates fail at the interview stage because they display little knowledge of the company or the precise role they would have to fill. The poor calibre of graduates entering the workforce will embarrass I ministers who want half of young people to be in higher education by

2010.

The Government has also unveiled plans to allow universities to charge £3,000 a year in tuition fees, claiming that the higher salaries on offer to graduates justify higher student debt levels. The average individual debt of last summer's graduates is £10,997, according to figures released by Barclays Bank.

Miss Castle, human resources director at Lewis, said too many CVs betrayed a lack of attention to detail.

And she claimed universities needed to earn their increased tuition fees by giving more help to undergraduates in the job market. Chris Lewis, the PR company's founder, said: "The falling standard of literacy is a most alarming development. In an age of increased course fees, this needs to be urgently addressed".