When sending my resume as an attachement, it arrives unformatted. How can
I get it to arrive the exact same way as I have it??

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 08 May 2006 02:12 PDT

What format are you sending it in?

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 30 May 2006 21:09 PDT

Hello marknot-ga,

Are you posting your resume to job boards or responding to specific
ads? Unless a job posting specifically tells you to send your resume
as an attachment (and specifies the format) you should NOT send it as
an attachment. You should develop a nice ASCII version of your resume
that you can copy into the body of an e-mail or an online form.

Can you give us some examples of where your attached resume failed to
arrive as you expected?

All the best.

~ czh ~

DO NOT just paste it into the e-mail.  Use a PDF, preferably.  If you
are sending a Word or RTF document, the recipient will need to have
the same fonts installed.

Send your resume as a .doc or .pdf file attachement. When you cut and
paste your email into you can lose formatting information.

You should send your resume as a PDF file. If you don't have any
software to convert it to PDF, try OpenOffice.org at
http://www.openoffice.org It's free, available for all major operating
systems and will allow you to save any document it is capable of
opening (such as .doc, .txt, .odf and more) as a PDF file.

The problem with sending your resume "in" the email is that many
businesses have their email clients set to read email as text only. 
Text only is the same as you would see in notepad.

For this reason you should send your resume as an attachment.  If you
save your resume as word (resume.doc) then most businesses will be
able to open and read it.  However not all and sometimes word files
are not trusted file as they can contain worms.

Your best option is to download a copy of open office
(http://openoffice.org) and open your file and click export to PDF
from the file menu.

A PDF file is made by acrobat reader and that software costs alot of
money. If you can find a third party program that will do it try that.
But what you should do is just send it as a .doc (word) document. Not
everyone has Acrobat reader and the employer will just want to do
whatever is easier. So I'd go for the word document.

Mac OSX has built-in PDF capability any time you "print".