2017 guys... You cannot keep making same mistakes over and over again... So I want to share very simple, yet!!! Important tips when sending an application via email.

Note: Please read carefully.

What led to this topic?
Last week I was privileged to have the opportunity to recruit two new guys for my team and my HOD had insisted that I used my official email to receive resumes.
I already envisaged the number of resumes I would get knowing fully well the rate of unemployment in Nigeria. So... I was unhappy that my email would be very busy with lots of spam
Unfortunately too, we did not currently have any HR software that shuffles CV: http://www.hrtechnique.com/2016/08/how-to-ensure-hr-administrators-get.html

What did I do?
I went to my email settings, started playing around, and I found a solution. I was able to create a different label (box) but I had to give it a title name and I had to (without choice) specify what type of message title comes inside, what type of file can be received and what the weight of the file should be. Problem solved.

What does this imply?
It means any email without that title name or files above the specified weight will not be archived.

What did I notice?.
After publishing the vacancy, specifying what the subject of the email should be and what the maximum weight should be for resumes as well as the file type... A host of graduates still went ahead (stubbornly) to do what they think is right rather than do as instructed.

The three simple but important tips:
That being said, when applying via email, ensure the following is observed.
1. Note and obey what the recruiter has specified that your email subject should be. Otherwise you will not hear from the recruiter because he wont receive it. Don't add your own words.
2. Same as above, follow the instructions regarding whether it should be in PDF or Word. There is a reason why they said so.
3. Lastly, Ensure the file is not above the required weight.

Tip: Be straight to the point in your application. I doubt recruiters read them. They go straight to your cv. If they ever read your email, let it be straightforward.

Related articles on: www.hrtechnique.com

Insightful and useful.
A recruiter says subject is: Location | Position Applying For but we decide to put Position Applying For Before Location.


Edited: Thanks for that link... Too many secrets revealed.

Helpful and Informative

Adherance is the key.

noted

Very informative

Issokay

Thanks

Very educative

LastMumu:
Chai, chineke mo. So no wonder after sending thousands of applications last year na only GNLD dey gree reply me.

Lolz thank God dem don leak the secret give you inside this fresh year....

LM did you go on holiday ni?

Who looking for job epp. When you can create yours

BEASTMODE

Beautiful piece @OP.

Same reason why many people fail exams. Students, out of "great" wisdom or lack of it, reset questions for themselves, and succeed in answering complete OP = Off Point.

Understanding instructions is 40% of the total marks.

After sending the application are they going to reply us

Can't u help the teeming population of unemployed people instead of giving them rigid principles. A lot of them are yet to get the requisite experience needed in a work place. Give them a job and orientate them when they are placed on the job not the other way round

Truflame:
Can't u help the teeming population of unemployed people instead of giving them rigid principles. A lot of them are yet to get the requisite experience needed in a work place. Give them a job and orientate them when they are placed on the job not the other way round

HR job is on the line if s/he recruits the wrong candidate. Most times they are trying to replace people and s/he has a responsibility to get reliable employees. If an applicant cannot follow instructions in the first place then it paints the person as someone who doesn't get himself or herself together and its the first red flag.

Besides, that does not require experience you would agree with me. They are just simple and common sense instructions as was given in your exams in school too.

If subject says: Head Of Operations.
Dont write it as: Application For The Head Of Operations In Your Company (It wont even be received) because they are like computer commands.

But I get your point, thanks. Just wanted to help.

Source: www.hrtechnique.com

Crucially Noted, and adherence shall take plaz. Aal Is Well

Jazmiynne:


Lolz thank God dem don leak the secret give you inside this fresh year....

LM did you go on holiday ni?

Hmmmm... .

@op
When writing an application letter,should someone type the letter or to send as a file

Rochero:
@op
When writing an application letter,should someone type the letter or to send as a file

As instructed.
If there were no instructions with regards to that, then you could write it in the body of your email in two paragraphs.
Short and precise.

Interesting

I hope people read this before they continue screaming no job...Agreed there are limited jobs besides its not everybody that should look for job u can start yours but even the learned ones dont listen to simple instruction....Very informative Op. Kudos

LastMumu:
Chai, chineke mo. So no wonder after sending thousands of applications last year na only GNLD dey gree reply me.

Hahaha

Happy new year bro

Amazing!