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Resumes: Sending options

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Sending a resume/cover letter to a potential employeer (ie. FBO)

  • Send it in a regular envelope via USPS

    Votes: 7 63.6%
  • Send it via Fedex/Ups -- Certified letter

    Votes: 4 36.4%

  • Total voters
    11
  • Poll closed .

BoDEAN

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When mailing out a resume (ie. say to an FBO) do you recommend sending it in a regualr endvelope or a certified document envelope (ie. Fedex/Ups)?
 
Ok heres how to get noticed. Go buy a cooler put some beer and ice in it. Put your resume on top, and Fed Ex it.
 
Take Shawnc's advice, He's a genuis, really...
BTW I'm possibly hiring soon. PM me for my address.
 
FedEx is a nice touch - it screams "I REALLY WANT THIS JOB! - but it is pricey for the jobless.

Go to the post office and get a priority mail envelope (same size as the FedEx envelope). This keeps you from having to fold your resume or getting trashed in the mail. It is less than 4 bucks to mail and they can deliver to a P.O. box, if needed. Caution: the Express Mail envelope is the same size, but will cost you mucho dinero.

For the record, I recommend FedEx - (gotta keep food on my table:D ).
 
Resume transmittal

Depending on your time-frame, either mail or overnight delivery would be fine. I would place a resume and cover letter in a 9 x 12 envelope. That way you do not fold them and they arrive fresh, neat and crisp. Fresh, neat and crisp wins you points.

I realize that application transmittals have changed in the nine years since I was looking, and that e-mail and faxing is commonplace. Call me old-fashioned, but I would do neither. Look at it this way. You lose a lot of crispness and clarity via fax. Compare a faxed document to its original. That loss of crispness and clarity can screw you if the document scans incorrectly. When you e-mail something, you run the risk that your recipient's word processor will not read your document's format. Moreover, H.R. receives tons of faxes, so you risk having your e-mail, and your hopes and dreams, deleted or ignored. It's much harder to ignore an original document that arrives in an envelope.

Original documents are the way to go in my $0.02 opinion. Good luck with your application efforts.
 

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