When sending resume's through email, what is the protocol of following up?

Phone

Always send a paper one. Harder to delete.

Send it snail mail, with a batch of homemade cookies. You still may not get the job, but your resume will at least be read. Unless you are a terrible baker that is.

@WestRiverrat Right up there with sending nude pics of myself with resume’. haha.

Call them. Make direct contact showing initiative and interest.

@all: I’ve gotten more callbacks than I can handle by emailing my resume alone. There’s no need to send it snail mail anymore. You guys need to enter the 21st Century. And cookies just seem desperate.

@chyna: The proper follow up, according to my professional development advisor, is to wait at least a week, then follow up by phone.

I agree. They cant overlook a call.

@chyna Ild dissagreee of course it depends on the company but generally a firm isn’t going to take alot of notice to all those emailed cv’s I mean would you if you had 150+ inbox every day, nope…

posting it gets it to the desk in question and to the person you want it to get to, a well presented cv looks so much better on paper, it is old fashioned but it works especially with smaller businesses.

@Tobotron: Just the fact that you’re interchanging the terms resume and CV tells me that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

@La_chica_gomela well your a bit rude arn’t you, actually it depends where you come from, I copied this off of wikipedia…

“The résumé is comparable to a curriculum vitae in many countries, although in Canada and United States it is substantially different”

because in the UK they mean the same thing, one derived from Latin the other French its personal preference what you call it, so actually I do know what I’m talking about.