Make sure your resume is professionally written. Have both the traditional resume as well as an electronic resume. The electronic resume is designed for electronic processing, database searches, scanning and retrieval by computers before being seen by the human eye. A sure way to kill your chances for consideration with a company is to send numerous copies of your resume over a period of time. This fails to leave a positive impression of the hiring agent.
Electronic resumes are plain documents purposefully created that way.
There's no way to get around it so . It is a waste of your time to attempt to sneak an HTML or other highly formatted resume into the electronic system. Some UNIX computers into numeric streams automatically translate ampersands and percent signs. Columns, tabs and underlining are deadly. Italics, creasing and faxed resumes will not scan accurately.