# Is it OK to send an email AS a CV? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ok-to-send-an-email-as-a-cv/234742 "2004-03-17T00:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zardoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a8b319/32.png) [@Zardoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zardoz)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ok-to-send-an-email-as-a-cv/234742/1 "2004-03-17T00:56:02Z")
To those people who go over resumes and hire people: I’m applying for jobs mostly on the internet by sending my resume as an attachment to an email. The email itself contains my cover letter. Is there anything wrong with this? As in email application ettiquette? I guess I could write the CV in a Word file and attach that as well, but that seems a bit silly. Follow up question: why is cover letter abbreviated CV and not CL? ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ok-to-send-an-email-as-a-cv/234742/2 "2004-03-17T01:24:12Z")
CV is Latin for _Curriculum Vitae_, ([a short account of one’s career and qualifications prepared typically by an applicant for a position](http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=curriculum+vitae&x=0&y=0)), not cover letter. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-ok-to-send-an-email-as-a-cv/234742/3 "2004-03-17T01:46:12Z")
Locking duplicate thread.