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Every Employer And Human Resource
Interviewer Receives Them, Yet 98% Are
Never Looked at. Of The Ones Which Are
Looked At Only 1 In 200 Gets An Interview.

--An Employers Perspective On The Emailed Resume

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.

In preparation for writing this
brief article, I've taken a quick
minute to look at my email
inbox and in particular the vast
number of emails received by
those seeking work
opportunities. Among the many
emails submitting resumes
there are emails from persons
identified as:
"curseofcreative@...",
"ridemehardertonight@...",
"stonedwakeboarder@...", and
"chugthatbrew@..." .

Before anyone attempts to send
a resume by way of email, they
should give serious thought to
every element of their email
presentation.

Your email address should
always be viewed as the engine
at the front of the train. It
creates the first impression a
reader will have of you, and
create interest in reading on or
hitting the "delete" button.

If your usual email address is
one filled with a fun and crazy
spirit then understand--an
employer will not likely take
your email seriously and
dismiss it very quickly.

I strongly recommend for
persons who use email and
attached resumes as a means
of job hunting that they start by
going to a free email server such
as Gmail and create a
professional sounding email
address which will be used
strictly for job hunting.

Do not underestimate the
negative influence of a poorly
chosen email address. It will
shut you down in a split second.

An email address which is
closely tied to your...