Easy E-mail Resumes
E-mailing your resume isn’t complicated at all. With an understanding of the process, you’ll be zipping your resume through cyberspace in minutes. In a nutshell, here’s what to do:
- Go online, open a new e-mail message, and address it to your prospective employer.
- Copy and paste your cover letter and resume into the e-mail document.
- Click Send.
Bonus Check
You can access your ISP’s e-mail software by clicking on a self-evident icon or underlined word on the ISP’s main page or by selecting a Mail option in the ISP toolbar. In order to do these three simple steps, you need a computer that has a connection to the Internet, e-mail software (both of these are discussed earlier), and a version of your resume specially prepared for e-mail transmission. Let’s look at how to create your e-mailable resume so you can send it on its way quickly.
Job-Hunt Hint If speed is critical to winning a job, e-mailing your resume could be the way to go.
Terms of Employment
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a very reliable format for sending and receiving documents as attached files. PDFs are known for their ability to maintain the fonts, graphics, and layout specifications of an e-mailed document. To create a PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat TM software. And for the employer to receive an attached PDF, she must also have Adobe.
Staying Out of Trouble
Now that you have your e-mail system up and running, you’re ready to send your resume electronically to an employer.
You can e-mail it in one of two ways:
- Send it as an attached file. This is not recommended unless the employer tells you specifically what type of file (such as MS Word for Windows or Portable Document Format) your resume should be.
- Insert it directly into the e-mail message (recommended). Here are my thoughts on these two options.
Here are my thoughts on these two options.
Doubling Up
Ultimately you’ll want both your cover letter and resume to appear in your e-mail message to the employer. Because there are a few steps to preparing MS Word documents for e-mailing, it makes sense to combine your letter and resume into one MS Word document so that you can make the adjustments to both at the same time. That should cut your work in about half.
