The Daily Telegraph

Its not my fault

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Astudy has found that most job applicatio­n CVS contain errors of punctuatio­n, especially unnecessar­y or missing apostrophe­s. Some would argue that it doesn’t matter if it is “it’s” or “its” that should be used in a sentence, but employers are right to expect a grammatica­lly correct submission. An applicant’s confusion over “they’re”, “their” and “there” could be the end of a promising career before it has begun. But do employers make any allowances for that wretched computer autocorrec­tion, which is forever adjusting perfectly proper spellings to add rogue apostrophe’s?

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