15 Tips for Job Search Email Success

Email plays an increasingly important role in our lives both in and out of the office. In fact, the most popular web mail service, Yahoo! Mail turned 10 years old in October, 2007 with 250 million users. TechCrunch reported back in February that Yahoo leads the pack followed by MSN with 228 million accounts and Gmail from Google with 51 million.

Needless to say, many people are relying on email in a professional job search as much as they rely on it for personal entertainment or communicating with friends.

The following tips will help job seekers to use email effectively in the job search.

1. Be professional with job search emails. Grammar still matters and punctuation is still important. If you had help with your resume from a career counselor, resume writing software or from anyone else, your resume and cover letter probably look really good. Your emails need to maintain the same high standards and should look as edited and proofed as your resume does. Do not forget that your resume is an indicator of the quality work you will do for the employer.

2. Make sure the email subject line includes your name and the document attached. Eg Joe Jobseeker - List of References.

3. Think seriously about not adding a quote to your email address for the job search. If you chose to add a quote, think about whose quote you use and what the recruiter might think about you as they read your chosen quote.

4. Read and follow email application instructions from hiring managers carefully. If they require that you respond by email, do so. If it states otherwise - do otherwise. Some employers might even give you instructions for the format, document type or font size to use when submitting resumes via emails.

5. Use an email address that you will check often when communicating with hiring managers.Recruiters hate to have emails bounce back for closed accounts or full mailboxes.

6. If you are using a signature with address and contact information, as you should, there is no need to add your email address in this signature again.

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