I am not an HR. But I get at least 4-5 resumes in my official mail id everyday. In my Outlook client I have multiple folders for each technology with sub levels for experience. Unfortunately many people (from fresher to experienced) do not know how to write a mail. Many times I send these resumes to ‘Others’ folder rather than forwarding to HR mainly because of no-time reasons.

It is really a difficulty when I get a mail with no subject or just ‘resume’ in the subject line. I will need to open the attached document to know which technology this person knows and many times I will need to count the number of companies to find the experience level.

Here are some suggestions:

• Use meaningful subjects.
• If you send resume because of some advertisements, then give its reference.
• Specify technology-experience-designation. Eg: Resume dotnet 3+ programmer
• Most companies provide job reference code. Specify it.
• Body
• Do not leave blank.
• Specify which designation you are expecting.
• Tell them ‘what you know’
• Specify misc. information like CTC, Notice Period, Contact time etc.
• Do not put many email IDs in TO/CC field. Use BCC field always
• Do not send resume many times to one HR. It is annoying. It may make negative impact.
• Specify reference names if you have friends working in the company.

Resume tips are out of scope of this blog but one important point:

• In the first page itself, write:
• Your email id, name, place, technology, experience and designation details

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