Professional Help: Why Your Resume is Getting Ignored (Part 3)

11 Feb Professional Help: Why Your Resume is Getting Ignored (Part 3)

Sometimes the smallest mistakes have the biggest impacts. This common error is probably the easiest one to avoid, and is due to people rushing to apply.

3 – Demonstrating a lack of mastery of email

About ten percent of applicants that apply to our job postings forget to attach a resume. Another ten percent don’t list anything in the subject line of the email. Unfortunately, my team doesn’t have time to contact these applicants and ask them to resubmit. So, 20 percent of submissions don’t even get to the review stage.

Before hitting send, double check to make sure you’ve attached your resume and added a relevant subject (e.g. John Smith’s Resume for Available Account Manager Position). Emails without a subject (or an irrelevant subject) end up in spam filters or get deleted as phishing scams.

Here are some other major email mistakes made by applicants:

• Typos (spell check your email subject and body)
• Listing the wrong job or company in your email
• Not confirming that links and hyperlinks work
• Using caps too often

What are some big email gaffes that make you cringe?

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