Back in the day, by father worked in recruitment for a rather large place that got many many more applicants per jobs (like most places I guess, but this one wo

Back in the day, by father worked in recruitment for a rather large place that got many many more applicants per jobs (like most places I guess, but this one would employ several 100 new people per year with thousands of applications per recruitment round). He told me they used spelling mistakes to filter applicants - more than X (cannot remember what X was) typos in the form and you were cut - harsh, but somewhat fair at the same time. Yes they probably lost some good people, but probably many more bad ones - all recruitment is like that, there is always someone who should have gotten in that doesn't unfortunately. He was not recruiting IT or even degree level folk either ...