E-mailing resume's? (gen. resume' ?'s)

[mithrilG60]

Originally Posted by M1903A1

My experience (on both ends of the hiring process) has been that blindly faxed resumes are discarded outright. (Not out of maliciousness, the recipient usually just says "what's this?!" and tosses it along with the rest of the fax spam.)

CV's emailed to general addresses receive much the same treatment simply due to volumes. Most companies that are accepting general applications will have a specific address on their site to email to and specific postings will of course have submission instructions. Overall I think that handing a CV to the appropriate person in the company is still the best since it lets you make a personal impression, but unless you can get face time with that person you're probably better served via email than dropping it off with the receptionist.