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by v-erne 1391 days ago
>> hyphen is a minus "-" rather than an en-dash "–" or an em-dash "—"

/s

You snob, this is internet, how dare You point out that single dash sign is apparently not enough to convey all this context dependent meaning. Go back to Your fancy books.

s/

Sorry, I could not resist - each time I am remainded that clear communication is not enough and „proper” form is also required because of historical reasons I die a little bit inside. Why we (the people) like to complicate our life so much? Germans somehow could get rid of ß so maybe not all is lost (but Danish people on the other hand brought back Å so maybe it is ;) )

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You are right... I fine-tune (not "fine-tune") the ligatures in my CV for proper form. It might be overkill.

But then, would you rather hire someone who cares about the details or not? (That depends on the job, of course. But insofar as the job is to fulfil the requirements of the job, and a requirement of putting together your CV is generally understood to be to do it carefully without typos, it doesn't bode well.)