Learn How To Fax a Resume

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How To Fax a Resume—Snap Your Resume and Fax It in Seconds!

If you don’t know how to fax a resume, you’ve come to the right place!

A plethora of fax apps allow you to send and receive faxes from your phone. While this helps you in the sense that you don’t have to pay for fax services that use a machine, you don’t want to subscribe to an online service that’s too costly or inefficient either.

Read on to learn how to fax, how to get a fax number, and how to send your resume with a cover letter through fax.

Why Do You Need To Send Your Resume as a Fax?

You might be wondering why you have to go through the trouble of faxing your job application when you can scan the document and email it hassle-free. Many businesses prefer faxes over emails for a reason, though.

Emails are susceptible to a lot of security breaches, whereas faxes are secure and more professional. Another reason is that it’s easier to store faxes and keep the documents organized. Plenty of companies’ electronic inboxes are cluttered with spam, promotional, and important emails, and hiring managers may prefer faxes precisely because they don’t produce this sort of mess.

If you don’t know how faxing works, don’t worry. We’ll walk you through the entire process of faxing your resume.

Tips for Faxing a Resume—Use a Cover Sheet

Even if you’ve sent a bunch of job applications before, if this is your first time faxing your resume, you should know what the right formatting is.

Here’s how to type out your document:

Sections in the Resume You’ll Fax

What To Include

ToFull name of the hiring manager—if you don’t know the name, type “Hiring Manager”
CompanyName of the company you’re applying to
FaxRecipient’s fax number
DateDate when you’ll be faxing the resume
PagesNumber of pages of the entire job application
ContactYour fax number, phone number, or email address
TextYour resume and cover letter

When faxing a resume, you should use a fax cover sheet. You can combine the cover sheet and your cover letter on the same page, but they can also be separate. When you have all the pages copied, attach them in this order:

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Cover letter
  3. Resume

Cover sheets serve multiple purposes, such as informing the recipient:

  • What the document is
  • Who the sender is
  • What job position you are applying for

Here are some more tips on faxing your resume, cover sheet, and cover letter:

  • Include your qualifications in the cover sheet to encourage the hiring manager to read your application
  • Use standard font style and size to make sure your document is readable
  • Don’t color anything in the document
  • Include a header with your name in your application, especially if it contains multiple pages

How To Fax a Resume

Now that you know how to format the resume you’ll fax, you’re probably wondering how to fax it. You likely don’t own a fax machine, and you shouldn’t even consider getting one. They are costly, inconvenient, and terrible for the environment.

You have several options when it comes to faxing. You can do it:

  • At a place that offers faxing services—Just like you can go to a UPS store to copy files, you can go there to fax them too. You will waste a lot of time, though, which is why fax apps are a better option. Why waste hours on running a simple errand when you can do it from your couch?
  • Through email—Exchanging faxes through email is a common practice because it’s easy. You need to be connected with a third-party fax provider and include the recipient’s fax number in the To section. Emails aren’t the best solution, though. Your or the hiring manager’s address could get hacked
  • By subscribing to an online third-party service—Your best bet is to fax your resume from your phone using a faxing app, and we’ll tell you which one offers the best service

Fax Your Resume With the Help of DoNotPay

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Our Online Fax feature allows you to send up to 100 documents a month and take a photo of your file so you can fax it in an instant.

If you have to deal with legal documents, all the better reason to keep using DoNotPay. We have connected our Online Fax and Legal Documents features so you can:

  1. Generate a fully personalized contract in a matter of minutes
  2. Sign it electronically
  3. Fax it to the recipient right away

Here’s How To Fax Your Resume With DoNotPay

Once you log in to your DoNotPay account using any , you can fax your resume in three simple steps:

  1. Upload your resume or snap a photo of it
  2. Type the hiring manager’s fax number
  3. Read our confirmation message to make sure your resume was received

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