| Topic Name: |
The Elegance of Snail Mail Resumes |
| Message Name: |
I partly agree... |
| Date Posted: |
03/21/2002 |
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Beautiful, crisp resumes on nice paper can give you an edge that you should not overlook in your job search efforts.
This is how it works: My mail gets delivered to my office twice a day. My assistant opens it and sorts it. Resumes go in one pile. He adds any faxed and e-mailed resumes to the stack. Guess which ones stand out? The crispy, nicely creased resumes on good paper. They pop up and make little tents because of the creases from being in the envelope. They won't lie flat with all the other white, stock paper faxed and e-mailed resumes.
I'm a sucker these; I know this person has gone to some extra trouble and expense to send this resume. They've put some thought into it and prioritized who they want to work for. I read these first.
If you meet the requirements, I call you and ask for an e-resume directly to my mail box so I can easily forward it internally to the hiring manager for review. Or, I can forward to another recruiter who has an open position that would be a better fit, or I save in my "high quality resume" database for easy retrieval when I have another opening.
E-job boards are indespensible for gleaning information about job opportunities and gathering company info (research!). But your electronically submitted resume will be one of thousands. Don't take the chance of being lost in the avalanche.
Good Luck and God Bless All Job Seekers! |
| Message: |
I HATE reading folded resumes. I much prefer reading a flat document. As a result, in the past (pre-e-mail) I always read flat resumes, and I still send my own out one nice paper via snail-mail, but in a large flat menvelope.
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