Resume File Name

Put yourself back in a hiring manager or recruiter.

Resume file name. Using your full name and the job title separated by dashes or underscores makes your resume file immediately identifiable to the hiring manager who may receive hundreds of applications. Select the folder youve chosen to save it in. Judy January 24 2014 at 340 pm I received advice that I should not send resumes in PDF only in Word or RTF because some applications dont search PDFs correctly.

However you want your resume cover letter and other hiring documents to be as easily-searched as humanly possible. What goes best with a headline in a resume. I just had to wade through 100 resumes and I noticed a few mistakes that many people seem to make.

Close the file name. Develop a filing system on your computer to keep track of the different versions of your resume rather than using the file name for that purpose and make sure that proofed ready-to-go resumes are stored in a separate. You should name your resume file First-Name-Last-Name-Target-Job-Title-Resume For example Robin-Walker-Marketing-Assistant-Resumepdf would be a good resume file name.

Anyone know anything about this-X- Its. By labeling who the file is from the position they are after and the file it makes. Dont name the file Resume or any variation of that.

Keeping the resume. Following resume file name conventions makes your resume easier for employers to locate and to understand what file it is they are accessing. Thats fine for entry level jobs but when the position requires 3 or more years of relevant experience if I assume you dont have that by the end of the first page of your resume Im closing the file and moving.

Name your resume file with your name resume. A summary of qualifications. If you have a common name you could also add your middle initial.