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Articles: My Thoughts | Emailing Your Resume
- Mr Medasani krishnakishore
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—Remember to delete references to page two. If your resume is more than one page, delete any indications of page breaks such as “Page 1 of 2,” “Continued” and your name on page 2. Technically, you are making your resume appear as one continuous electronic document. Use all CAPS for words that need special emphasis. Since Text Only, Plain Text, or Notepad stripped your resume of all bolds, underlines, and italics used for highlighting words, use all capitalised letters to draw attention to important words, phrases, and headings. For the best overall effect, use all caps sparingly and judiciously. Replace each bullet point with a standard keyboard symbol. Special symbols such as bullet points, arrows, triangles, and check marks do not transfer well electronically. Therefore, you must change each to a standard keyboard symbol.
Suggested replacements are:
Dashes (-)
Plus signs (+)
Asterisks (*)
Double asterisks (**)
—Use the Space Bar to place a single space immediately after each symbol (and before the words). Do not use the Tab key for spacing as you may have done in your original resume. Also, allow the lines to wrap naturally at the end of a line—don't put a forced return (don't push the Return or Enter key) if it's not the end of the statement and don't indent the second line of a statement with either the Tab key or Space Bar.
—Use straight quotes in place of curly quotes. Like bullet points and other special symbols, curly (smart) quotes do not transfer accurately (in fact, they may appear as little rectangles on the recipient's screen). Limit line lengths. Because each type of email software limits the number of characters and spaces per line, your email may have a longer line length than the receiver of your email. This can cause the employer to see line wraps in unusual places, making your resume document look odd and even illogical. To avoid this problem, limit each line to no more than 65 characters (including spaces), since this is a conservative line length.
—It’s important to keep the note short. You can get the most impact from your email presentation if the employer doesn’t have to scroll his email message to see that it contains a resume. This can be achieved by keeping your cover note brief. Copy and paste your email resume. Now that you've created your combination document containing your cover letter and resume, you're ready to put it into an email message and send it on its way.
Step-by-step email process
—Go online and open a new email message
—Carefully type the employer's email address in Send To, being mindful to spell out the address with 100% accuracy, including the use of upper- and lowercase letters.
In the Subject line, type 'Resume:' followed by the job title you're seeking (e.g., Resume: Marketing Position).
—Keeping the email message screen up, open your ResTextBreak.txt in Notepad and copy all the text in this document.
—Go back to the email message screen and paste the document into the message window.
—Now check the entire email message (cover letter and resume) to be sure its appearance is exactly what you want the employer to see.
—Click Send and you're done!
Even if you've followed all these instructions to the letter, it's a good idea to do a few quick test runs. Start by simply emailing your message back to yourself to see how it comes in. If it looks OK, then test it further by sending it to a friend on a different ISP to check that nothing in your document changes when emailed. If all goes well, you can be reasonably confident that when you email your resume to an employer, he or she will receive exactly what you have carefully prepared.
If u follow above instructions defently recive a call letter from recruiters.After following with these Instructions one of my friend got a good job. So i strongly belive this article would be helpfull to all.
Thank you and wish you all the best
KK
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