Misspelled the surname of an employee for an application- is this an automatic rejection?

Crystal86

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Hello,

I've just sent off an application and as the title suggests, I made an embarrassing error. For one of the application questions in the second sentence, I misspelled the surname of an employee I referred to. Do you think this will be detrimental to my application?
 

George Maxwell

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Hello,

I've just sent off an application and as the title suggests, I made an embarrassing error. For one of the application questions in the second sentence, I misspelled the surname of an employee I referred to. Do you think this will be detrimental to my application?
Hi @Crystal86,

Happy New Year!

This is honestly entirely firm dependent. All I can say is that I know that misspelling someone's name in an application (even the Head Recruiter) will not necessarily mean you are not progressed. I know someone who was offered a training contract with a firm who did just that!

There is no way to know for sure either way though. The best you can do is hope🤞, focus on the next one and try not to do it again.

For the future, this thread might be useful for next time in avoiding spelling errors 🕺. I hope that helps :)
 

Crystal86

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Hi @Crystal86,

Happy New Year!

This is honestly entirely firm dependent. All I can say is that I know that misspelling someone's name in an application (even the Head Recruiter) will not necessarily mean you are not progressed. I know someone who was offered a training contract with a firm who did just that!

There is no way to know for sure either way though. The best you can do is hope🤞, focus on the next one and try not to do it again.

For the future, this thread might be useful for next time in avoiding spelling errors 🕺. I hope that helps :)
Thanks @George Maxwell that's reassuring and yes, I will try to avoid that again! Thanks for sending the thread.
 
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