Step 7: Email your resume.
Now that you've created your Plain Text document containing your cover letter and resume, and you have the correct extension on your hardcopy document, you're ready to create an email and send it on its way.

The following steps will get this job done quickly:

1. Go online and open a new email message.
2. Carefully type in the employer's email address in Send To, being mindful to spell out the address with 100% accuracy, including the use of upper- and lowercase letters.
3. In the Subject line, type "Resume:" followed by the job title you're seeking (e.g., Resume: Marketing Position).
4. Set your email formatting to Plain Text (not Rich Text or HTML). To find out how to do this, use the Help section of your email software, as it's done differently on various email programs.
5. Keeping the email message screen up, open the Plain Text version of your cover note, copy the text in this document, and paste it into the body of your email message.
6. Open the Plain Text version of your resume, copy all the text in this document, and paste it into the body of your email message immediately after your cover note.
7. Now check the entire email message (cover letter and resume) to be sure its appearance is exactly what you want the employer to see.
8. Attach the hardcopy version of your resume to the email.
9. Click Send and you're done!

A Test Run
Even if you've followed all these instructions to the letter, it's a good idea to do a few quick test runs. Start by simply emailing your message back to yourself to see how it comes in. If it looks OK, then test it further by sending it to a friend who uses a different email system to check that nothing in your document changes when emailed. If all goes well, you can be reasonably confident that when you email your resume to an employer, he or she will receive exactly what you have carefully prepared.

See Joseph Lynch's email cover note and resume on the Next Page.