Best way to deliver resumes

heymackzzzz · Jan 10, 2011

In person... not all resumes get tossed. Some places store them until they need workers and what not.

I feel that more effort is shown if you do it in person. Thats just me though.

RadBSN · Jan 10, 2011

If it's online I'll submit it online, because that's how most of the info is organized these days. However, I would consider taking my resume to the nurse manager of the floor I am applying to depending on what I knew about the person and how they would feel about me dropping by. If there's a place to mail it I will hand deliver because that's the best way to know that it's actually going to get there!

I agree that there's no one way to get your resume read, it just depends.

elkpark · Jan 11, 2011

My current employer (the largest healthcare employer in my area) has gone to a system of only accepting online applications -- the HR people have been officially instructed to toss any paper applications and resumés. I only found out about this a few years ago when I had mailed in applications for a few different positions and never heard back (at that time, the job postings on the website specifically said that you were welcome to apply either online or via snail mail. I finally applied for a position and the HR person for that department called me back and said they were really interested in me, but HR had been instructed to disregard any paper applications, so she needed me to re-apply for the position online. (I really appreciated that she had been courteous enough to do that -- now I know what happened to my other applications!)

calinurse20 · Jan 13, 2011

I believe that the best way is to deliver the resume to the managers in-person whenever possible.

Most of the time when we apply online, majority of the time its not even read and it doesnt even get to a nursing manager.

llg, PhD, RN · Jan 13, 2011

Don't think of it as an "either - or" type of situation. Do both, or even more. Submit it online as requested by the employer ... but also ... snail mail it or hand deliver it if that seems appropriate for the situation.