emailing resume
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- Daro
When asked to email your resume, how do you mail it? just copy it in the body of the message, attach a word doc? what would look more professional?
- Jaline0
Attach a Word document or PDF so that it's more consistent with the way you wanted it to look like. Or have it on a web page somewhere.
- 2pence0
Do NOT paste in the email.
- Jaline0
...because, unless you have practically no formatting in your resume, the formatting may be lost if you just copy and paste into the text box.
- moamoa0
just PDF
- ismith0
Thread complete
- Jaline0
Ask them, if you can. Some of them want it to be in a text box, as horrible as it is.
- Daro0
how about the cover letter? another attachment?
- 2pence0
If I get half ass CV's, or poorly written emails I don't even look at them.
- gramme0
If your career has anything to do with design: the only form your resume should live in for correspondence is PDF. End of story. Otherwise people can mess with it. You'd be surprised, it happens. Plus if it's a PDF, you can obviously do whatever the heck you want with typography.
- I've gotten some really nice looking Word CV's in the past.2pence
- Word = font restrictions, plus it doesn't read InDesign or Illy kerning tables.gramme
- Doesn't mean you can't do a nicely typeset CV in it if you know what you're doing. Not all AD's or CD's actually use design apps.2pence
- design apps.2pence
- Llyod0
pdf so you can show off your design skills
- Daro0
Ok, PDF it is. Thanks guys. It's been a while since I've done this.
- sureshot0
good luck my friend.
- 52kilo0
pdf is pretty standard.
- oozie0
anyone mention pdf yet?
- welded0
JPG.
- nocomply0
+1 for a PDF attachment in an email
- Daro0
I wished I'd asked before sending those powerpoint attachments
- sureshot0
now you know.
- Mojo0
what's a pdf?
- MrOneHundred0
I always fax a hand-written Post-It note.