If you want them to drive a forklift round, it's not an issue. If you want them to represent your company it its clients, you'd be crazy to take them on.

If they can't be bothered to take the time to get the English right on their CV, how are they going to behave if they are writing emails/letters/proposals to your clients?

A CV is the first chance people get to create an impression. If that CV has typing errors, then the person writing it is only showing that they have not spent time ensuring it is the best advert for themselves.

I once had to call someone listed as "nikel" only to find the person was Nigel, and that he knew there was an error on his CV. When you have to go through more than 500 CV's in a day, you need to select the ones that stand out. Errors equate to no's, in my opinion.

American spelling is more difficult due to the program being used to type your CV on, but again, 30 seconds with a dictionary would ensure such language spelling errors would not appear in a CV.

As you set the standard for your acceptance levels, you get to decide who you bring in.

Employers look at Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter etc soon after the first sift of CVs. It seems very obvious to most of us, but many people seem to forget that when telling the world about what they've been getting up to. Colourful tales about wild drunken escapades and incoherent ramblings in pidgin English are unlikely to impress a potential employer!

If you anticipate being on the jobs market at any time in the next 12 months, it's probably a good idea to stop yourself Tweeting as soon as you've had your first drink. You wouldn't go in to an interview after a drink, after all!