How to Submit Your Resume in a Wired World - Brief Article

When you scan the job listings, you'll notice that some companies are asking applicants to E-mail their resumes. Great idea, but there is a catch. If you send your resume in the wrong format, you might actually be E-mailing your potential employer pages of nonsense characters. In order to guarantee a fail-safe E-resume, it's best to send your resume in ASCII, or plain text format, in the body of the E-mail message.

Rebecca Smith, E-resume guru, warns against sending your resume as an attachment unless you are certain the company has an E-mail system that can read attachments. Instead, open a separate word-processing file and create your resume in plain text (ASCII), also known as text only. If you already have a resume in word-processing format, you can save it as plain text and re-do some of the spacing and formatting. Then, cut and paste your resume into an E-mail message.

For a helpful tutorial, try Rebecca Smith's eResumes & Resources at www.eresumes.com. The Riley Guide at www.dbm.com/jobguide/ also offers useful advice.

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