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HR Girls - cover letter in email or as attachment?

I'm helping my cousin look for a new job. Is it preferable to do the cover letter in the body of the email? Or do you need just do a quick note in the email and have the cover letter as a separate attachment? The job listing just says:  

Applicants should submit a cover letter, current resume, both day and evening telephone numbers along with the announcement number by closing date to:  email address.  
If sending via e-mail, document must be in Word format. If you are responding to more than one Notice of Vacancy, please submit a copy of your resume/cover letter for each posting. 
 
Thanks! 

Re: HR Girls - cover letter in email or as attachment?

  • 1 other question - if they say to submit to an email address OR and then give a person's name and address, should you address the cover letter to that person? even though the email is a generic account?? 
  • Not hr but generally cover letter as email body is fine and address it to the hiring person if known.  Shows attention to detail
  • I'm curious to see what the HR people have to say.  I don't work in HR, but when I worked in corporate I always emailed my resume and cover letter as attachments.  The actual body of the actual email would contain some very basic information about myself, my background, and contact information along with a note to "please see my attached resume and cover letter."

    Maybe that's not correct, but I always worried that if my email was forwarded to other people in the company to look at, the formatting of my cover letter in the body of the email would get screwy or it would get lost in the mix of forwarded messages.  Plus, I just thought it just looked nicer in general... especially if someone wanted/needed to print it out.

    Oh, and to answer your other question, I would address it to "To Whom It May Concern" but, again, I could be totally wrong.

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