However, if you are answering an ad, odds are the person opening the mail and processing the resume is not the person who is going to review the resume and do the hiring. Most of the time, and administrative assistant like myself will open the resumes, make photocopies for the person or team reviewing them, and then keeps the original in the hiring file. There’s a good chance that the person doing the hiring will never see your nice, expensive paper and even less likely they’ll ever see an envelope, as that is usually tossed first thing.

Just something to consider before going to the expense of stamps, paper and envelopes.

And, you won’t piss off the administrative assistant who’s wondering why you are wasting her time having to scan your resume into an electronic format for eventual storage. Trust me, never piss off the admin where you eventually hope to work.

And, you might be telling everyone that you are a bit too old school, i.e. not tech savvy enough to manage an e-mail.

This created more and more calls, interviews and eventually getting the job. As you mentioned in your post, the physical piece of paper is the one that they look at, not the electronic copy. It’s so easy to hit the delete button!

Thanks,

Richard Rinyai
http://www.theprofessionalassistant.net