How to make 'resume' more appealing to the HR??

[hkukkama]

I am always sceptical while sending my resume to companies. How does the HR dept like to have the resume? I mean which format would they prefer? .pdf, .doc, .txt or is there any other best method to send them resumes.

I was told by one of my friends that you can send your resume in the body of the mail right under your cover letter. Won't that mail be too long for a person to give a look. Is sending resume as an attachement considered appropriate?

Please share your professional comments and any kind of suggestions are welcome, coz, this would be of help to many people.

-hk

 

[hellyyan]

With simple forms attached better. Show your specialty in the front of your resume.

 

[chip123]

1.Plain text or attached file are all ok.
2.You'd better not prepare same resume for all corporation, coz there are different requirements for different companies.
3.Don't just send only resume to HR, with application letter will be better.

Just advice for ur ref!
Good luck!

 

[ajaykumar988]

i normally prefer to send as an attachment

 

[dfullmer]

As a manager that gets a fair amount of these I can say this:
• Don't pontificate how good you are!
• Show what you know and what you have done.
• Try and stay as close to the job description as possible.
• Try and keep the resume to one page if you can. (We are looking at several of these)
• Tell what you are proud of but don’t go overboard.
• Show me in words that you know that work is hard and you can knuckle down and do it!
• Work is a business, not a charity, tell me that you will be worth hiring and the company will profit from this.
• Don’t lie! I’ll find out in three months (if not sooner) and you’ll be out of here.
• Show that you are ethusiastic and want to do this kind of work.


Just my 2 cent. I am currently looking to hire a software engineer so this topic is in the front of my mind right now. Can you tell?

Regards and good luck.

dfullmer

 

[safwatonline]

i always prefer PDF