What do you write in the email which attached your resume & cover letter? resume, cover, letter, What, attached

hunny_master

I have asked some of my friends and they said they would paste their cover letter in the body of the email. Is there a particular format for writing these emails? Any example? Thanks!

myversa

I usually paste my cover letter in the body of email as your friends did and just attache the resume.

The subject usually includes

1.  Attention to whom
2.  Position applied for

utopia

DON"T PASTE YOUR COVER LETTER AND RESUME WITH YOUR E-MAIL~~~~~~~

I hate people doing that when I receive resumes .......
becuase you are casuing them extra work by printing them and renaming the resume and cover letter!!!!!!

utopia

When you type the subject on your e-mail, put down the reference # and position. For example:

RE: Job Bank advertising #12613546 Accounting Clerk

Dear Human Resources Manager (or if you know the person name, put it there)

Attached please find a copy of my resume and cover letter. Thank you for your attention. (or consideration)

Something like that lor. A lot of people make the same mistake that they try to write too much information on the e-mail with the CV. When you show you are looking forward to meet him on the e-mail content and repeat the same thing again on the cover letter. It only shows that you are too desperate.

myversa

原帖由 utopia 於 2008-3-11 10:20 發表
DON"T PASTE YOUR COVER LETTER AND RESUME WITH YOUR E-MAIL~~~~~~~

I hate people doing that when I receive resumes .......
becuase you are casuing them extra work by printing them and renaming the resu ...

oopss... That means I did the wrong thing.  I will keep that in mind if I am starting to look for job again...

Thank you.

siumaibb

I usually won't paste the covering letter since you're attaching it already, I guess just say you're interest in the job and where did you find the posting is ok.

asmok

I usually just put the position I'm applying for and my contact info in the body of the email, then attach your CL and resume.

Alcoholic

i copy my cover letter onto the body of email, & just attach my resume. that way, i have cover letter, but i don't repeat to attach it again to the email, & only attach a resume

lerico

I copy the cover letter to the body of the message, attach a PDF version of cover letter and resume as attachment, indicate at the end of the body of the email that a PDF version is attached.

Do not copy resume to the body of the message, it usually will look like a mess. Also provide attachments for easy printing. Put them as a PDF file so you can make sure the formatting won't mess up.

Maggie

原帖由 myversa 於 2008-3-11 12:32 發表



oopss... That means I did the wrong thing.  I will keep that in mind if I am starting to look for job again...

Thank you.

I think it depends on the company... I somehow recall seeing a company that ask people to paste the ressume on the email and not to attach... don't know... I prefer handing it in in person...