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| Sending an email resume? Here is what you should avoid | Like (43) |
| Please do me favour if you can. I need job in Pune. The attached file my CV.' Mechanical engineer and management graduate Arjit Patel used this line in a covering note for a job application, and copied the email to 10 companies with all the addresses visible. Patel, as expected, is still to get a call or reply five months after sending the application to 50 prospective employers. Yogendra Singh, another fresher, writes, 'PFA attacked my resumay', without a subject line, and a signature line that says: 'Keep smiling :-)'. His email too did not evoke a reply. Both Patel and Singh's covering notes made it straight to the trash bin. Hundreds of job seekers fresh out of college may be desperate to land a job but are unable to get past the first step because they lack a skill that to most people appears simple enough: writing an email. Some of the recurring liberties that freshers take: Use SMS language, don't give their emails a subject line, send an unformatted cover note, don't proof their mails or resumes for spelling errors, and use fancy email IDs. "I delete such emails immediately," says Dipankar Sharma, director, Lemon Fresh Solutions, an HR solutions company. "We do not entertain emails which use Plz or PFA. This is not an SMS, but an official communication for a job. Emails from fancy email IDs (coolboysam@, prem4priti@, and so on) are also trashed right away; and so are those with spelling mistakes and without a subject line," he adds. Sharma says, "We reject candidates 80% of the time because of these reasons. There is a huge oversupply of manpower, particularly freshers. So such emails are not worth a look at this point." Other common 'errors' include sending a mass email with all email IDs visible, addressing a covering note to some other person or company, forwarding an email sent to another company with the competitor's ID visible. Read More... Also Read Behavioral Interview Crossing the first hurdle When it comes to writing a business plan! Write an impressive cover letter to get an edge How to Take the Multiple Choice Test Companies Ask? |
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