You can expect to receive about ten responses for every 100 resumes you send out. Some will be simple acknowledgments; some will be rejected as spam or incorrectly addressed. The remainder might be in a recruiter or human resource department inbox ready for inspection. Those reviews of the final three or four are the critical ones that will determine the effectiveness of your current job hunting campaign. These ten tips will help you get better responses.

1. The name of your resume document should be in the form: Last, First. Add your middle initial if your name is common. Using resume or tomresume05 or such is certain to cause the recipient to lose it or lose interest because of the time consuming step necessary change it so it can be saved correctly. Make the document name unique to yourself. It should be in Microsoft Word format, not PDF or WordPerfect.

2. The cover letter is basically wasted material. No one reads cover letters with any degree of interest or attention. Make it short and to the point. You are looking for a position in a certain area and your salary needs are $. That