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This is a small thing, but if you’re sending out a resume with a date like “resume2013,” please go update it right now. Otherwise, fairly soon you’ll start looking like your job search has been a lengthy one (which, rightly or wrongly, can turn some employers off) — and like you’re not paying attention to details. And while you’re at it, make sure your resume isn’t named something like “Resume with Jane’s edits.” That’s too much insider information, like leaving Track Changes on when you send it.

Aside from these things, though, no one will care what your resume file is called, so feel free to ignore all advice to the contrary. • LondonI Don’t be too picky over this one. ‘Orient’ existed first and is technically ‘correct’ but the Oxford English Dictionary lists ‘orientate’ as an acceptable alternative. In British English it is quite standard to hear ‘detail-orientated’ and I remember hearing one woman in her mid-40s bemoaning the fact that ‘orient’ seemed to be taking over from ‘orientate’. In her view, ‘orient’ was incorrect.

Anyway, please be careful if you’re viewing candidates negatively over this. There might be parts of the US where ‘orientate’ is also viewed as the correct term. • -X- A resume with just the name of the company you’re applying to is not a good idea, especially if you’re emailing it. The recipient works at ACME. Files with the name acmeresume.pdf are meaningless, and will often result in the the recipient needing to rename the file. Your own name is the key thing. If you really want the company name in the file name, include that in addition to your own name, not instead of it.

In naming files, think about what info the end user of the file needs to know what it’s about. • Ruffingit That’s what I always do – Resume Ruffingitlastname and the same for the cover letter as well. I also do a footnote in the resume with “ruffingitlastname” appearing on each page (it’s two pages). That way, I figure if for some reason it got printed out and the pages separated, they could easily know who the pages belonged to and that they go together. I realize that’s unlikely to happen, but I figure I should make it as easy on the employer as possible with my documents since they receive a lot of stuff generally. • Nusy Since I have a not-all-that-common last name (not anything particularly unique, just a different spelling), I just use FirstinitalLastname_Resume and FirstinitialLastname_CL for my files. And as for the Track Changes left on I would never send out my resume in.doc/.docx unless it was specifically requested.

PDF all the way – there’s no chance of a different version of Word/OpenOffice/Mac-word-thing throws my formatting off, or that someone on the receiving end accidentally deletes or changes a section. (Much less if they were going to do it deliberately, which I wouldn’t even think of, with an even semi-sane company.). • Anonymous My thoughts from being on both sides of this. I recently concluded a lengthy job search because my industry *vanished* two years ago. I did a lot of hiring in previous job, and do a fair amount in new job.

As a hiring manager, I like names only, no job titles or anything else. Primarily because I don’t like long file names in general, and I am very organized with email inboxes and folders when hiring. As an applicant, I limited my documents to firstnamelastnameresume and firstnamelastnamecoverletter, unless the job posting specifically requested otherwise. I used folders with company names and position titles to keep track of what I sent. • Confused It’s not just about what works best for me. If I included the job title I thought it would show I didn’t mass email and the person then has the job title in the file name for easy referenceI still include my name so it’s searchable both ways “Search: Jane Smith” or “Search: Teapot Maker” FirstNameLastNameResume_JobTitle I was just explaining my thought process for doing it that way and acknowledging I had not thought of how it may have been coming across. I wasn’t advocating one way or another.

• Tasha Because a diligent applicant probably doesn’t know the filing preferences of individual application reviewer(s), who might be hiring for multiple positions, I don’t think including the position title should be a negative in and of itself. It could plausibly help the file recipient. (If the applicant is applying to an overly wide swath of positions in the company, it should be obvious within the computer system, right?) However, I agree that putting in the company name won’t help. Xbmc Wizard Download For Mac. Everyone reading that resume ought to know they work at Company X even if the filename isn’t Joe Smith_resume_ Accountant III_Company X.:). Odia Serial Pari Song Download.

• Contessa I read a random article that pointed out that the company name is superfluous (the hiring manager already knows where s/he works), but the job title can be helpful if the company is hiring for more than one job at the same time. If I apply for Job X but my resume and cover letter accidentally get routed to Job Y, I want them to easily see that I belong to the other job and send my info to the right people, instead rejecting me for not being qualified for a job for which I never even applied.

My file name is FirstLast_Resume_JobTitle. • Ornery PR Ha! I’ve received one with tracked changes too, and it was very clear that their own writing style was deeply flawed. Not bad with the changes, though. Also, I got a cover letter yesterday that was named, MyCoverLetterForThisPositionAtThisCompany but when opened, it was for an entirely different company from years ago in a different state and her name was different then. She still used the same letterhead/style though! I was kind enough to email her about the mistake and allow her to submit the intended one.

She was mortified, but I’m sure pretty thankful I allowed her to correct it. • TheExchequer I’ve always done FirstnameLastnameResume(Updated). The updated lets me know it’s the latest version (I save it as something else, then copy it over when saving old versions in case I want to revert) and looks like I’m freshening up my resume to the employer. I like this convention, though perhaps with one caveat – if you have an especially difficult name to spell, a very long name, or an especially unusual name (like Van Halen?), maybe just ResumeForChocolateTeapots and then initials.

• Elysian Any strongly held preferences for file format? I offered to review my mom’s resume (she had been out of the work force for a very long time) and she sent me something in.txt with the formatting all messed up and rendered improperly. I can’t figure out why she didn’t just go with the Word default, since she swore she created it in Word. I feel pretty strongly that that was holding her back (along with a bunch of typos and misspelling, among other things, her own last name). Especially egregious since she listed “Microsoft Word” as one of her skills. • Elysian Yeah it was a typo, I presume.

But it really wasn’t a good starting point. It only got worse from there. On one sentence she used two periods. Sometimes she Randomly CapitaliZed somE leTTers. This was all before you even got to the content itself, which was sometimes indecipherable.

I basically re-wrote it for her and told her “use this instead.” It felt a little like I was lying to future employers about her computer literacy. She got a job within 2 weeks of my re-write. (Not saying I’m that awesome just it was would have been hard to get worse.). • Lillie Lane I usually use my name in my resume, but I found out recently that I had applied for a job where another candidate had the exact same name.

In fact, I know this candidate — she started grad school in the exact same (small) department that I had graduated from several years earlier. I am still associated with the university, and some of our research projects were very similar. As in a niche within a niche. People constantly misdirect their emails to the wrong “Lillie Lane”.

I’ve even seen links to presentations that I’ve given, but they posted her photograph.very frustrating. • nyxalinth I caught that just last week! I also rearranged my resume a bit. I had recent experience then relevant experience then a section for other experience.

I realized that it would make it look like a had a huge 6 year gap, if someone were just skimming! It was all chronological, but if someone were skimming, they might see what looked like a gap and trash it before moving on to the rest of my listed positions. So I put it back in normal ordering. I figure it might account at least partially for the huge wave of indifference I’d been getting.

• Limon I think we are all human and not robots, or perfect applicants in this imperfect world. I can see from the hiring side that yes, it would be great if everyone did things we, the hiring people would like to see. But people make mistakes, are imperfect – just like the people who are hiring. I had a resume for most of last year that had a date from the previous year. I had alot of interviews that I either did not accept or they did not accept me.

But I would doubt it was because my resume had 2012 instead of 2013. I would like to think that a person’s professional experience would speak well of them and that in the scheme of things who we are as people counts for something. One of my best examples of this is a very high level bond analyst with a degree in public planning and who had worked at the different bond rating agencies as well as at several different investment firms in the area of municipal bonds. He showed me his resume one day and it was incredibly simple, with just the names and places, nothing fancy.

But his reputation all over Wall Street was impeccable and all you had to do was mention his name and people would say, ‘great guy.’ I think we are more that a date difference or a simple name on a pdf file, with all respect. • Mander Sometimes applications specify a particular file format, but I usually go with something like Lastname_Title_CV.pdf Lastname_Title_CoverLetter.pdf. It helps that only a handful of people in the world (or at least, in google search results) have the same last name as me. I do have a ton of different versions of my CV in a dedicated file that get various silly names and dates, but I always save a copy with a more appropriate name and put it into a dedicated folder for that particular job. Makes for a lot of copies but at least that way I rarely send a file with a bad name.