Proofing a resume requires special care and skill. Most people cannot catch grammar or spelling mistakes in their own documents. It is helpful to enroll a success team member, spouse, adult child, partner or friend in the process. Have them read out loud the resume and cover letter to you. They may be encouraged to point out awkward constructions, unclear passages, spelling or grammatical errors.

Spell checkers and grammar checkers will falsely flag a large number of constructions for correction. It is common to write resumes using sentence fragments and to drop the noun "I" and definite articles such as "the". Hence standard word processing tools are not always useful for catching errors in job search documents.

Adobe Acrobat Reader to the Rescue!

One tool that the author has found convenient is Adobe Acrobat Reader. It has a built-in "Read Out Loud" option under "View". Hence convert your document - resume, cover letter and even an email - to PDF output (using a utility such as from www.pdf995.com), then listen to it being read out loud by the Acrobat Reader, and if it sounds fine to you, then send it out.

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