Nursing

Tips on sending an electronic résumé

Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, March 3, 2008

In this age of technology, you may see an advertisement for a job that requires you to submit your résumé electronically. Using your MS word or Word Perfect format may not work well as an electronic submission. You should save your document as a rich text format (RTF) file to ensure it looks like it should on the receiving end. Email it to yourself or a friend to see how it looks before posting it.

Here are some other tips for submitting an electronic résumé:

  • Left-justify the entire document.
  • Avoid fancy fonts or characters. Use Arial or Helvetica font in 12-point type size. Check with the job ad-they may prefer 10-point.
  • Avoid tabs and hard returns. They do not translate well in the electronic format.
  • Avoid italics, script, underlining, boldface, underscoring, and bullets. Use an asterisk or dash instead of bullets. Use capital letters for emphasis.

Source: Stressed Out About Your First Year of Nursing, HCPro Inc., 2006. For more information on this book, click here.

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