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Here’s a couple of tips about submitting your application by post or email:

Post

Don’t fold your application when you post it. Rather, send it flat in a larger envelope. For example, if you print on A4 paper (the standard in most countries except the USA), instead of folding it twice to fit a DL size envelope, you’d buy a C4 envelope so you could send it flat. (See here for paper and envelope sizes following the International Standards Organization sizing.)

It will cost you a little extra, but your application will arrive looking crisp and fresh.

Email

When you send your application by email, if possible and allowable (sometimes advertisers ask you to send in particular formats), convert it to a single Adobe PDF file. If you send it as a PDF the integrity of the formatting will be retained, unlike MS Word documents, the formatting of which often changes when loaded into a different software version.

This means that whoever prints your document won’t print a badly formatted document that reflects poorly on you. Given that the person printing could receive 20 or more applications, she or he won’t take the time to make sure your formatting is retained, they’ll just press the print button and you document could look like a dog’s breakfast (If you know what I mean).

Also, if they have to print only one PDF file, there is less chance that they will miss printing all of your application.

You can find free PDF converters on the Internet and the latest version of MS Word has a plug-in that will allow you to save as PDF files.

These couple of hints could save you missing out on an interview for reasons over which you have little control.

Robin
“Think success - Achieve success”