Speelink for the unemplyed.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:14 pm
A jobs website which aims to help unemployed people brush up on basic literacy, numeracy and interview skills is littered with spelling mistakes.
Simple words such as 'working', 'opportunities' and 'effective' are misspelled on The Learning Zone website.
Instead of 'equal opportunities' the site offers candidates 'equal opportunies' and boasts that the 'course foucses [sic] on the steps you need to take to prepare for an interview'.
On a page dedicated to helping jobseekers improve their writing skills and CV, it says: 'This course uses a variet [sic] or media and different resourses [sic].'
One page alone features four clangers, including 'workinng' and 'effecive'.
The Learning Zone website aims to help jobseekers make the best impression possible when applying for jobs and gives interview tips, but users branded the website 'chaotic'.
The sloppy presentation has been described as 'an insult' to jobseekers using the site, which is run by employment group Avanta.
The company won a multi-million pound contract to deliver the Government's new Work Programme in the North East region earlier this year.
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