Fancy paper for resumes a thing of the past?

[Khadaji]

I think that is excellent advice Harriet the Spry. Stuff I hadn’t thought of, but I agree with it.

[Moirai]

When I was vetting resumes, bad quality and cutesy colors went straight into the trash.

You wouldn’t believe the shit people would send in- badly greyed-out xerox copies, pink paper with designs on it (looked like a shower invite or something). I even got one written in pencil once.

Good quality white paper only. No folds, no staples, header or footer to ID each page. We will make multiple copies.

[Tokyo_Mann]

@roxx222

An extra question… When sending a resume by E-mail, am I supposed to paste the resume straight into the body of the E-mail or send it as an attachment? It looks much better in Word, because I have it arranged in columns, but if people never open attachments, maybe I should change the format.

I much prefer getting resumes in Word documents. Unformated ones in the document just don’t look good.

[iamme99]

@roxx222

An extra question… When sending a resume by E-mail, am I supposed to paste the resume straight into the body of the E-mail or send it as an attachment? It looks much better in Word, because I have it arranged in columns, but if people never open attachments, maybe I should change the format.

I haven’t sent a paper resume out in many years. I always use email. I usually send in PDF format. If you send in Word, there is a lot of hidden data that can get you introuble, if someone knows how to find it.

[caphis]

@roxx222

An extra question… When sending a resume by E-mail, am I supposed to paste the resume straight into the body of the E-mail or send it as an attachment? It looks much better in Word, because I have it arranged in columns, but if people never open attachments, maybe I should change the format.

I recently applied to about 8 jobs via e-mail/internet attachment. 7 of the 8 specifically requested either MSWord or PDF format. The 8th didn’t specify what it preferred, so I sent an MSWord. The rest got PDF.

[caphis]

@caphis

I recently applied to about 8 jobs via e-mail/internet attachment. 7 of the 8 specifically requested either MSWord or PDF format. The 8th didn’t specify what it preferred, so I sent an MSWord. The rest got PDF.

Pet peeve of mine.

Change “either MSWord or PDF format” to “either MSWord or PDF”.

[caphis]

@iamme99

If you send in Word, there is a lot of hidden data that can get you introuble, if someone knows how to find it.

…what? Run that by me again?