Mailing resumes instead of taking them personally?

[wifeandmomoftwo]

I'm a new grad LPN (just licensed last week). I've delivered my resumes to most of the places within 20 minutes of my house that hire LPN's. Is it OK to mail resumes to the facilities that I would consider working for that are an hour or so from my house?

[wifeandmomoftwo]

I would caution you to check with the facility and make sure mailing a packet is okay before you do so -- my current employer no longer accepts paper applications or resumés and the HR people have been instructed to just put them in the "round file." I applied for three positions within this organization by mailing in resumés and letters (the website job postings said that one could apply either by mailing in a resumé or by completing the on-line application), and heard nothing back from them, before I applied for a fourth position and was contacted by the HR person for that department, who called to tell me that the department was really interested in me but she had been told to disregard any paper applications and she needed me to re-apply via the on-line application process (I really appreciated that she made the extra effort to do that -- I guess my other applications had just been trashed).

Eeeek! Thank you for telling me about your experience! I never would have considered that possibility.

[elkpark]

Eeeek! Thank you for telling me about your experience! I never would have considered that possibility.

Me, neither, until it happened (esp. since the organization's website specifically said on each job posting that you could apply either by mail or online).