While walking down the hallway at my faculty this afternoon, I saw this sort-of professional poster. Oh well, the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, Student Chapter Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (IEM-UTM) just had their recruitment drive. I like to read posters and notice posted on any notice board. I get the satisfaction in judging whether that poster is a thumb-up or a thumb-down. Usually, I will go scouting for spelling mistakes or grammar errors. During my undergraduate years, my friend Zhili and I really like to spend some time commenting on posters. Most of the time, we were taken aback by those mistakes and errors which should not had happened.

As to provide you a solid proof that I am not telling lies, I grabbed a shot of the poster with my new SE W660i.

Look at it! I shall first address the first mistake (the use of past tense) and secondly the improper use of acronym. The organizer should have written the above sentence as “IEM-UTM is going to hold an INTERVIEW for the ExCo recruitment term 2008/2009″. Mind you, in English there is no such word as exco. I presume the organizer is talking about supreme council or executive committee or the Board. The correct acronym for Executive Committee is ExCo (Source: thefreedictionary.com).

It’s kind of “mempersiasoikan” for a well-known organization like IEM-UTM to make even a single silly mistake. I don’t care what kind of excuses they would give for making such mistakes should they stumble upon my blog by chance. Quite a number of organizations in my University failed to double check or have someone proof read their announcements/posters/notices/brochures and etc. To me that’s the most ridiculously thing to do.

A small mistake when portrayed means the organization or business is UNPROFESSIONAL. What’s next? I shall post some similar mistakes I found on PELTAC’s poster. I will!