With billions of emails circulating daily, you want to be sure that spam filters don't eliminate your resume before a human sees it. Here are several steps to ensure your application makes it past the automatic gatekeeper.
1. When you are informally networking, oftentimes someone will invite you to submit a resume. Make it a habit to ask them to include your email address in their contact book.
2. Send to each address individually. Mass mailings usually head directly to nowhere; and remember, you should be individualizing your cover letter as much as possible.
3. Use caution with the subject box. You don’t want the filter to mistake your letter for spam, so avoid words like free, giveaway, or money in the subject line and in the body of the letter or resume. Opportunity isn’t good either. Punctuation, especially exclamation points, and all capital letters should not appear anywhere in your email.
4. Make sure to use any words the potential employer has asked for in the subject line.
5. Many filters eliminate mail with attachments, so cut and paste everything into the body of the email unless requested otherwise.
Filters that eliminate your mail do not send notices back to you, so you won’t know if you didn’t make the cut. If you don’t hear within a reasonable amount of time, call or send an inquiry by regular mail. You could also look over what you sent the first time, revise and resend.
1. When you are informally networking, oftentimes someone will invite you to submit a resume. Make it a habit to ask them to include your email address in their contact book.
2. Send to each address individually. Mass mailings usually head directly to nowhere; and remember, you should be individualizing your cover letter as much as possible.
3. Use caution with the subject box. You don’t want the filter to mistake your letter for spam, so avoid words like free, giveaway, or money in the subject line and in the body of the letter or resume. Opportunity isn’t good either. Punctuation, especially exclamation points, and all capital letters should not appear anywhere in your email.
4. Make sure to use any words the potential employer has asked for in the subject line.
5. Many filters eliminate mail with attachments, so cut and paste everything into the body of the email unless requested otherwise.
Filters that eliminate your mail do not send notices back to you, so you won’t know if you didn’t make the cut. If you don’t hear within a reasonable amount of time, call or send an inquiry by regular mail. You could also look over what you sent the first time, revise and resend.
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