How a Professional Proofreader Could be the Key to Landing Your Dream Job
Your resume and cover letter create the first impression with any potential employer. You could be one typo or one awkward-to-read sentence away from being completely overlooked and missing out on the interview for your dream job! And if that’s not an atrocious amount of pressure, I don’t know what is. I empathise, dear reader. I truly do, because I’ve also been there and done that myself. From handing out resumes at the local shopping centre as a teenager, not even realising how ultra-competitive the job market in retail is around Christmas time, to fighting tooth and nail to get into a peri-anaesthetic graduate nursing job fresh out of university, I know firsthand how difficult it is nowadays to get your foot in the door for good jobs as a young person.
And it’s not just a struggle for the young ones either. My heart goes out to any parents having to awkwardly explain “this gap” in your resume after raising a family (like that isn’t a hard job in and of itself). The world of job recruitment has undergone an incredible transformation over the past decade. If you’re coming back into it after a break and barely recognising it anymore, you’re not alone! Enter the professional proofreader: here to hold your hand, dry your tears, and tell you all will be well. Because it will be, dear reader – just you wait.
Here at Whoops Word Proofreading & Editing, we believe that bringing a professional proofreader into your corner is the ultimate step toward success in your job application journey. Are we biased? You bet! But we love helping people present their best selves in their applications, and today we’re pulling back the curtain to tell you how we could be the key to your success story.
1. Bask in the Confidence
This first point is as simple as it comes: job hunting can be soul-destroying stuff. But having a professional proofreader helping you revise and tailor each application can help you feel perfectly sure of yourself as you hand in your error-free documents and keep your outlook bright!
Maintaining motivation is crucial when it comes to job applications. Having a proofreader to lean on can help you keep your mojo during this taxing process.
2. Professionalism Boost
If your resume and cover letter are your first impression, you’ll want your prospective employer to look at your documents and think, “Wow! What a polished, grammatically correct, and well-structured piece of work. I'd better interview this super professional person immediately!”
A proofreader will revise your documents for clarity, errors, professionalism, and make you look so incredible that recruiters can’t help but feel the need to call you in for an interview ASAP. Remember the fairy godmother from Cinderella? Your proofreader would be the word-nerd version of that. (Which makes you the princess in that equation. Yay!)
3. We Know Your Resume’s Enemies
They say that you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer. When it comes to your resume, your enemies are usually already living in your house. Your too-long, poorly formatted, generic resume, with outdated contact information, that’s chock-full of spelling and grammar errors, is not it, dear reader, and you might not even know it!
But, before you die of embarrassment, remember, you’re here, reading this! That’s because you want to give yourself the best chance at your next job application. So, let a professional proofreader act as your sniper and eradicate the enemy agents living in your CV and cover letter!
4. Perfect Personalisation
We know how to tailor your resume and cover letter and make them extra-ATS-friendly. If you don’t know what ATS is, you need us, dear reader. (You could also read our last blog post for a bit of extra intel… Go on, you know you want to!)
Professional proofreaders know what hurdles your applications need to climb over, what hoops they must jump through, and how to win over both the bots and the humans. Gone are the days of rocking up to a company and handing in a paper resume to a person. The industry is competitive and gatekept now, but Whoops Word knows how to get you through it all!
5. The Robots Aren’t Taking Over Yet
There are loads of web tools to help you with writing and editing now. But between Spellcheck, Grammarly, Jasper, and ProWritingAid, a flesh-based proofreader is still your best bet for ensuring that your message and writing style are conveyed consistently and error-free in your job application.
While AI-assisted editing tools are marvellous in many ways, they still consistently miss subtleties in context and language that human proofreaders, as the language experts in the room, have a better grasp of.
And with that, dear reader, Whoops Word would like to leave you with one final thought: you are worth investing in. Your future is no small thing, and we know you will achieve incredible things. Just remember, a professional proofreader might be the missing piece in your career puzzle…
