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so you apply for a job online
and it says
Please send us your CV and a covering letter.
The CV is an attachment, of course, but is the covering letter part of the body of the email? Or is that an attachment too?
I'm leaning towards 'body of email'. Inappropriate spell-check zigzags are a plenty in MS word docs. But not in emails.
What do you think, my only, loving friends? xxx
Send a separate attachment
the body of the email only needs a sentence or two - please find attached my CV and a covering letter.
Maybe you should spell everything in your covering letter correctly, regardless of how you send it.
hilarious.
names aren't recongised, you gyppo.
That's where you click "Ignore all" before sending it off to someone important.
Also, i'd not use a .doc file.
That's just me, but I have all my CV's as PDFs.
I used to do that but then got told off by someone, maybe Sky, for doing it.
So now I err on the side of Word.
Really?
Everything I've read has said to send them as pdfs, otherwise the formatting can fuck up when they need to print it.
The only reason some companies demand word cvs
is so they can use the search function to find keywords rather than read it properly. Lazy gits. I PDF as much as I can.
fuck Sky.
I'd still have gave them a PDF. I want my CV to be read only, always. Stops someone from changing the files in anyway, and as Marckee says, formatting
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
print to PDF in the menu, on a Mac
on a PC word had the option... i think. or print to file. but these sites should help too: http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
if you install PDF Creator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
(unselect installation of yahoo toolbars etc)
you can 'print' anything as a pdf (or even jpeg, png, ... if need be)
i always put it in the body of the email
and put it as a separate attachment in the style of a formal letter with address.
cos, they may not get as far as attachments if they dont like the body of the email
and then the attachment is for them printing, forwarding on etc
if they have stipulated a cover letter then it should be an attachment
I've always been told to do both
Cover letter in body of email AND as attachment.
And always use PDFs. Especially as there's a few different versions of Word around at the moment to potentially mess with formatting / inability to open files.
A lot of jobs on the job seekers website say send cv/written application
What should you do for that?
Also, what type of paper is acceptable to use for an application that requests a handwritten cover letter?
Thanks for that