This paper analyzes related problems in the form of questions and answers, and provides corresponding operational suggestions.
Q: If I can submit my resume in the following three ways, which way will get better attention?
A, the post office actually mailed a paper resume;
B, send an electronic resume by email;
C. send your resume by fax
A: If you can choose, the way of "the post office actually sends a paper resume" will be better!
Network has become a very popular way of information transmission in daily work and life, and it has long lost its freshness to us; On the contrary, we gradually find that it seems a pleasant thing to receive an actual letter and open it by ourselves.
One of the main advantages of e-mail is its speed. If you have limited time, you'd better choose email.
Affected by the transmission and printing effect, the fax content received by the other party is likely to be blurred and distorted, which affects reading and is not conducive to preservation; Besides, privacy is really poor. Therefore, unless the other party asks you to fax it, you will generally not choose.
Suggestions on this issue are:
1, the first choice is to send a resume;
It is best to use EMS or express delivery, followed by registered surface mail.
Q: My resume is made in WORD. Can you send my resume directly as an email attachment?
A: The advantage of the attachment is that it can directly let the other party see the resume in WORD format. Through careful typesetting, fonts and tables in WORD, you can better highlight the resume content you need to emphasize, and the reading effect is the best.
The disadvantage of attachment is that it may cause the mail to be rejected by the mail system with attachment filtering conditions set; Secondly, the attachment needs to be clicked to open; If the attachment is opened for too long, the email may be "deleted" by impatient HR.
The reason why some enterprises refuse to send resumes in the form of attachments is that in order to avoid the harm of virus programs sent in the form of attachments to the system, IT departments have set shielding conditions for attachments in the mail system. Therefore, messages with attachments will be automatically rejected by the system.
In fact, not all attachments will be filtered. Most viruses are designed in executable file format. Therefore, even if the attachment blocking condition is set, most e-mail systems will not block attachments in WORD, EXCEL and PDF formats.
Suggestions on this issue are:
1. If you don't explicitly refuse to send your resume as an attachment, send your resume in WORD format as an attachment;
2. Convert your resume into PDF format and send it as an attachment, which will hardly be filtered out by any email system.
Q: How can I submit my resume in the body of the email?
Answer: For files in WORD format, you may wish to copy and paste all the contents directly into the body of the email.
If you use OUTLOOK or an email program that supports rich text and HTML format, you will find that the font and format of your resume content remain basically the same. Even if there are some changes, you can easily adjust it to the same effect as in the WORD program.
For email programs that can only be edited in plain text, after pasting, you will find that all fonts and layouts in WORD format have disappeared, and the resume looks very different from the WORD version. And you have to adjust the format again, so that it won't look so confusing.
So as to facilitate adjustment and transmission; It is best to open the WORD version of your resume in WordPad program and save it as a plain text file with suffix. txt。 Then adjust the format in WordPad program until it looks clear and tidy in plain text format.
In plain text format, you can also use some basic means to make your resume content look more attractive:
A, pay attention to set the margins, so that the text width is about 16 cm, so that your resume will not look wrong in most cases;
B, you can use some asterisks (*), special letters (such as O) and plus signs (+) to separate the resume content, and these symbols will not be converted into unrecognizable symbols like format symbols such as list symbols.
It should be emphasized that the recruitment company values the content of resume more than the form of resume, so you might as well spend more time on the consideration of resume content.
Suggestions on this issue are:
1. Give priority to emails that support HTML or rich text editing functions, so that resumes pasted into text can still maintain the format in WORD programs;
2. Edit the plain text resume in. Txt format to meet the needs of sending in plain text format.
Q: How to write the body of an email?
A: Since you want to send an email to the other party, the body of the email should be your cover letter! As for how to write a good cover letter, please search the relevant content on the Internet for learning or ask for help from Maxima's resume website.
Q: How to write the email title?
A: This question is very important; Because your email may be mixed with many kinds of emails-most of the top 500 foreign-funded enterprises receive more than 1000 new resumes every week on average. If your email title can't attract the attention of HR, it is likely to be deleted directly.
The biggest trick to write a good email title is to study the job description of the job application, refine the subject keywords, and highlight your most competitive advantages. For example, if the position you are applying for is a sales engineer, and the other party requires 3 years of relevant working experience, and you have 4 years of working experience, then you can set the subject of the email as [4 years of working experience in XX industry-applying for "sales engineer"].
Q: Can I make a multimedia resume and email it to each other?
A: Maxima's resume network believes that resume is a communication tool to quickly convey the basic information of job seekers under certain circumstances; HR just wants to see what they want to know on their resume-whether the applicant meets the qualifications and skills requirements of the recruitment position! Therefore, in most cases, HR does not appreciate all kinds of ideas, on the contrary, it will question whether it has effective communication skills in a fast-paced working environment.
If you are applying for a position related to "Web design", "advertising", "styling design" and "film and television", some suitable pictures, graphics, animations and even sounds may be of great help to you. In this case, you can consider making a multimedia resume.
If the multimedia resume file is large, it may be difficult to send and open emails. Then you might as well burn it into a CD and mail it to the other party or store it in cyberspace to tell the other party the link address.
However, for most people, it is too expensive and extravagant to make a multimedia resume or maintain a personal homepage online, and the actual effect is not great. Recruiting new employees is so complicated, you can't expect the person in charge of the personnel department to take time to look at your homepage soon, and then spend 10 minutes clicking on the multimedia presentation to determine your ability.