Steve Jobs' error-filled CV expected to fetch £35,000

A job application that offers a rare glimpse into the life of an adolescent Steve Jobs' life, before he built one of the most valuable companies in the world, will go up for sale next month.

The one-page, hand-written document, which is riddled with mistakes, is expected to fetch more than £35,000 at auction.

It offers a snapshot into a tumultuous period in Jobs' life, shortly after dropping out of university and marking his early ambition to break into the tech industry. The application details Jobs' desire for employment as "an electronics tech or design engineer" in 1973.

The application includes his name, "Steven jobs"; address, "reed college"; phone, "none"; and major, "english lit." In the middle section, Jobs writes "yes" in response to "Driver's License?" and "possible, but not probable," in reply to "Access to transportation?"

With regard to his skills, next to "Computer" and "Calculator", he writes, "yes (design, tech)." At the bottom, he describes his "Special Abilities" as "electronics tech or design engineer. digital.—from Bay near Hewitt-Packard [sic]".

Jobs was born on February 24 1955 to an Syrian Arab father and an American mother, who had travelled to San Francisco to put him up for adoption. Soon afterwards a blue-collar California couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, claimed him and named him Steven Paul.

After attending high school in Cupertino, northern California, Jobs went to study at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after a term.

He remained on campus for the next year-and-a-half, during which he would have written this CV. He spent much of his time auditing courses on Shakespeare, dance and calligraphy, subjects that would go on to shape Jobs' designs and the symbolic Apple style. In a speech at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs recalled: "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

The job application questionnaire filled out by and signed by Steve Jobs in 1972