Is it rude to fax your resume after business hours?

[illusion88]

Ive been sending off resumes all day today, and now that I have a few more prepared for various places I am anxious to send them off. Is it rude to fax them off tonight? Or should I cool my horses and wait until tomorrow.

 

[kalster]

why arent you just emailing them

 

[sash1]

fax? people still use those?


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wait, did people ever use those?

 

[Patt]

Not rude at all ... shows that at least you're not doing it from your current job's machine

 

[bigrash]

its ok to send it afterwards.

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: kalster
why arent you just emailing them

Because some places are requesting a fax

 

[Rubycon]

Fax machines don't sleep so no.

 

[WildHorse]

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: scott
Good chance your resumes are printing out on the receiving end with a page header identifying the name and tel# of the company you're sending from. Not too cool.

Who still uses fax? Wouldn't they prefer e-mail?
They probably just scan your fax anyway, for entry into a database used to search by keywords.

except I have a fax machine at home, so I guess I dont have to worry about that. Who sends out resumes from work?

I am applying to places within the medical field and most of the ads I am responding to request a faxed resume.

 

[Rumpltzer]

The fax machine in our office is used to collect stock market SPAM.

Some of us use it for odd random things... but it mostly sits there neglected.

 

[HN]

It's not rude but here's why i wouldn't do it (actually i wouldn't fax at all b/c they're all emailed now, but back in the day) :

this is actually when most people send their resumes (either when classes are out or when job's done). there's going to be a stack of them throughout the course of the night and a good chance yours will be at the bottom or caught in the middle. send it out first thing in the morning to give it a better chance of being on the top. HR usually sorts through that stack when they come in.