Intern Season

I think I made one of those hiring mistakes that you hear about in human resource circles. It hit me this morning when I opened Outlook and saw an email from an intern I hired exclusively on recommendation from a former adviser titled Internship Opportunitie. This individual either forgot the "s" in opportunities, which makes little sense in that this is a single internship opportunity, or thinks the "e" sound is made with "ie" instead of a "y" in this word, which is an even scarier prospect. Independent of the reason, the more important point is that he did not even bother to hit spellcheck before sending a message to an employer. The message was riddled with simple spelling and grammatical errors. Thank goodness I am not directly responsible for him. Otherwise, this could be a very long summer.