How to Create a Fax Cover Letter for a Resume

Video Transcript

"The role of the fax cover letter. Essentially you are choosing to send your resume via fax rather than an electronic e-mail or rather than snail mail which will take a long time. A fax can sometimes be beneficial. Faxing a cover letter resume nowadays has died out somewhat and it is not as common. I always suggest that if you do decide to fax a cover letter and a resume to have the first fax sheet to be completely separate from your cover letter and your resume again because you have put so much time into formating those two documents that you want to leave them the way that they are. So obviously you are going to obtain the information needed from the organization who is to receive the fax and aside from the rule of not going with templates when we go with the cover letter of the resume it is o'kay to use a template for a fax letter. You can use it in a sense that you can look at it and go buy it and then format your own and so then you don't run into not being creative so to speak but you want to just include how many enclosures are on there and that is a benefit of using the fax cover letter because you can actually say what documents you have included which sometimes in the process of sending documents as attached e-mails or snail mail and stuff sometimes you can lose documents along the way in an organization. It is not necessarily their fault or their responsibility so if you choose to go that way make sure you are indicating who you are sending it to, make sure you have their fax number attention to the hiring manager, what is included and how they can contact you via fax or via e-mail or however."