cover letters on email

[Fayd]

When a company asks for a resume to be sent in via email, to a generic email address, should i include the cover letter in front of, or behind, the resume?

my mother was telling me behind, so that the text searcher algorithms can tear apart the resume properly...and if they arent using a text search algorithm, then at least they'd still have the cover letter.

but i'm thinking, thjat since it's going into an email, (as opposed to a web form), it's likely that someone's gonna have to download and review it. like that, they're probably gonna go through it themselves.

suggestions?

(sucks that i let atot decide such inane things about my life)

 

[HannibalX]

Include two PDFs - one being your cover letter and the other being your resume. I usually title mine like this: "John Smith - Cover Letter" and "John Smith - Resume". I never send my resume as plain text.

 

[Savij]

I make the email my cover letter and include the resume as an attachment

 

[Finalnight]

Originally posted by: Savij
I make the email my cover letter and include the resume as an attachment

This.

 

[Fayd]

why? Why?! why can't i hit send!?

i keep thinking i said something wrong

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: Finalnight

Originally posted by: Savij
I make the email my cover letter and include the resume as an attachment

This.

unfortunately, on my screen it looks ugly, cause i use paragraphs and shit. since i have a widescreen 1920x1200, it gets spaced out so bad that it's ugly.

hopefully they wont have this problem reading it >_<

 

[Kirby]

why couldn't you include the cover sheet in the pdf, and the email say "Resume attached"?

<- knows nothing of resumes

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
why couldn't you include the cover sheet in the pdf, and the email say "Resume attached"?

<- knows nothing of resumes

lol, thanks, i forgot to even mention that i had attached a resume in the email >_<


well, for better or worse, i'm gonna hit send.

wish me luck! (pours a shot of jd)

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: iFX
Include two PDFs - one being your cover letter and the other being your resume. I usually title mine like this: "John Smith - Cover Letter" and "John Smith - Resume". I never send my resume as plain text.

don't use pdf, use word docs.

 

[alkemyst]

I attach a lolcat.

 

[nace186]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iFX
Include two PDFs - one being your cover letter and the other being your resume. I usually title mine like this: "John Smith - Cover Letter" and "John Smith - Resume". I never send my resume as plain text.

don't use pdf, use word docs.

Use PDF, don't use word unless they request for it.

Format of word document might be different and it would look weird and mess up.

 

[Fayd]

i used pdf for resume, and sent cover letter as email itself.

oh well.... maybe i should have included the cover letter as an attachment as well.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: nace186

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iFX
Include two PDFs - one being your cover letter and the other being your resume. I usually title mine like this: "John Smith - Cover Letter" and "John Smith - Resume". I never send my resume as plain text.

don't use pdf, use word docs.

Use PDF, don't use word unless they request for it.

Format of word document might be different and it would look weird and mess up.

everything i've read about resumes says to use word.

 

[zerocool1]

Originally posted by: Finalnight

Originally posted by: Savij
I make the email my cover letter and include the resume as an attachment

This.

Indeed

I use word because they usually ask for it.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: nace186

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: iFX
Include two PDFs - one being your cover letter and the other being your resume. I usually title mine like this: "John Smith - Cover Letter" and "John Smith - Resume". I never send my resume as plain text.

don't use pdf, use word docs.

Use PDF, don't use word unless they request for it.

Format of word document might be different and it would look weird and mess up.

everything i've read about resumes says to use word.

Ya, I read that PDF is a bitch to edit and convert to the company's own resume database system.

Edit: Oh right, and I include my cover letter and resume in the same word document. Probably a big effing mistake from the sounds of it, cause I've only gotten one response by doing that.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
I attach a lolcat.

lol