Resume Sending By Email

While e-mail is the most convenient way to send your résumé to employers, the problem is often this sometimes, when you send your résumé to companies by email, they write back saying the document was garbled or not attached to the email correctly.resume

If employers can't read your résumé, how are they going to hire you?

Most people send their resume either as an attachment or in the body of an e-mail message. But, for maximum results and minimum headaches, I recommend that you do both.

First, send your résumé as an attachment. Almost all e-mail programs let you send attachments, which are documents that ride along with the e-mail. Word is the most popular word processor; I also like the Acrobat format (.pdf) as it guaranties the format and structure of your document, so use this format for your attached résumé, if possible.

But attachments aren't foolproof. They may get scrambled during transmission and become impossible to open. Or, the reader may not have the same word processor as you, preventing them from reading your attached résumé. So, to make sure everyone can read your résumé, you should also copy and paste the text into the body of your e-mail message.

That's it! When you e-mail your résumé as both an attachment and with the text in the message itself, you can be certain that one way or another, your résumé will get read.

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