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Email Addresses and Subject Lines Can
Quickly Cause Your Emailed Resume To
Fall Into The Trash Bin.

An Employers Perspective On What To Consider To Avoid Ruining Your
Chances At That Dream Job or Dream Income From Better Employment.

Those who send employers emailed resumes are
often failing to recognize one truth, we have all
received them--hundreds of them. Over all they
are boring and 98 percent are never opened. The
logical question here is WHY?

While emailing a resume can be convenient, far
too many people have failed to make there email
stand out from the crowd.

With a positive presentation
through a professional sounding
email now having been
established, the next step in the
process is to consider the
Subject Line. Looking very
quickly at my inbox, I can see
99 percent of those who have
contacted me have used
basically the same subject line
"So and So's Resume".

There is nothing about that
subject line which causes a
person to stand from the rest.
Furthermore, it will expedite
your resume's journey to the
trash bin as there will be many

...name is of great assistance to
an employer when it comes to
quickly looking up your email
and resume for future reference.
Any time you make an
employers job more easy, you
earn at the subconscious level
significant brownie points.

more just like it.

A subject line should cause a
potential employer to stall long
enough for curiosity to set in.
Enough curiosity to want to
open the email and read the
contents. After all, that is the
sole purpose of a Subject
Line--to get your email read.

Subject lines which have risen
to the top with myself have been
subject lines which didn't refer at
all to a resume, or job position. I
have rushed to open emails
where the subject line was
similar in style to, "with regards
to our next meeting..." or "I'd
like to close this deal with you
quickly".

These are the kinds of subject
lines you need to incorporate
into your email if you want it to
get read. There's no point in
creating a great subject though
if your email body looks like a
Grade 2 elementary school
student wrote it...