business.tutsplus.com: You may think you know how to email a resume to a potential employer. But consider this, if the email with your resume is constantly filtered out or ignored, your chances of being considered for the job are gone.
Employers often receive hundreds of resumes in response to a single ad. Resumes are often sorted (and eliminated) by an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) before they ever reach a human. That's why it's important to know how to email your resume in a way that gets it in front of a hiring manager.
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This article is somewhat helpful...Some of these tips are pretty basic, "tips" like make sure your resume looks nice, make sure you have a professional email, etc. seem to crop up a little too often for me in these professional tips kind of article. The tip that I did enjoy about this article was the one reminding you to email your resume to an actual person, not just a catch all application email. The article Reads:"To give your resume to a human, start by looking for a contact who works in the company where you're applying. A good place to look for contacts is in your LinkedIn profile. If you find a contact within the company, you can use LinkedIn's own messaging system to ask them if they would be willing to deliver your resume to the hiring manager." which is great advice. I think any tome you can get into contact with a real person you stand a much better chance of getting hired than you normally would.
I had high hopes for this article. It would be really helpful to hear how to distinguish your resume from all of the other applicants who email in their resume as well, but I think this article gave little advice that can actually help you do that. The first couple of tips were headed in the right direction. The aesthetic and design of ones resume can be very important in making your resume stand out. The other tips were not so much tips as they were instructions on how to make a basic resume and cover letter. Then, the last two tips were instructions on how to attach them to a resume... I feel like a lot of these tips were pretty self explanatory. Overall, I think that this article can be helpful to those who have never emailed out a resume and cover letter, but doesn't do much to help those who have done it before and want to learn how to stand out.
This article was really helpful to me as I am for the first real time looking at how I should present myself to employers and companies. In the past I have gotten all of my jobs through connections of working with people on jobs and creating personal connections. This all being said I wish the article had some more specifics and detail on what exactly to do and not to do. I understand the basics like creating a professional feel by looking at my email and resume to make sure that I look serious I just wish there were some more specific tips that someone aside from my mother could give me about what its like to send a resume in todays growing job market. That being said I do like these job tips and learning more about the professional world as I move closer and closer to that world.
In working through this article to try and find some helpful nugget or some key sage advice to unlocking the golden pass to getting your resume through to the people you need to see it. I found that there was nothing but trying to sell another helper application or 20 step process. I would say its good advice for someone who has just started out and doesn't know how to attach a document to an email since that's what it spent the bulk of the time talking about. However, for those who have done this whole application for a job thing before it only best serves as a reminder of what not to forget and if you have been using a personal email all this time. Focus in and apply for the job you want each time and you should find what works and what doesnt. Each person is looking for diffrent things and you can only please so many at a time.
How dare they suggest that people send their resumes and cover letters in Word documents? That is simply never a good idea, and yet they specifically show an image of grabbing a Word document and attaching it to the email. You should always attach PDFs because you cannot guarantee that someone else's computer will open your documents the way you want them to open. By exporting to a PDF, you are doing the closest thing to handing them a printed copy. There is no guarantee that your resume will not be a bunch of wing dings when your potential employer opens it if you do not PDF it.
Other than that atrocity, everything else is really sound advice. I particularly agree with finding an actual person to send the paperwork to, since you never know who or what is looking at your application. That and following up afterward are probably the two most important pieces of advice.
I must say that I completely disagree with this article. After reading their claims about whether or not to post a PDF I am not totally convinced that it is the better option. I am fairly confident that I have run into more formatting errors even when trying to transfer between different years of MS Word. PDFs are by far the industry standard and allow the most flexibility and tend to hold there formatting between operating systems. Also, another huge aspect of this argument is: did you even make you resume in MS Word? Most people would probably say that this program is not the cutting edge when it comes to resume creation. Especially when you see online programs that can do most of the heavy lifting for you. I can imagine that it is difficult to export something like that into a Word doc. At the end of the day, I see where the author is coming from, but I don’t see this becoming the norm.
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