One school of thought advises against paying any of at least a dozen resume-distribution services to blitz your resume to employers and recruiters. Lain Kennedy columns Joyce Lain Kennedy is a 28-year veteran career columnist for the Los Angeles Times and author of seven books. I think otherwise - if you use a service dedicated to privacy and security. He does paper, e-mail and fax mailings. Bronstein says a survey of members of the Professional Association of Resume Writers indicates an almost equal split in preference between paper and e-mail, with few favoring fax.
Paper is the preferred method of communication for senior executives.
Limitations include highest cost and slowest distribution. Postal-mailed resumes and cover letters can only be entered into a database if the recipient is willing to scan them, which means cleaning up scanning mistakes. Benefits include immediacy, good graphic presentation, less cost than postal mail, and a fax is harder to ignore than e-mail. Fax costs are higher than e-mail, hard to connect with the right corporate fax number, not everyone has a fax, and the transmission failure rate is higher than returned snail mail. Benefits are immediacy, lowest-cost method for career marketing, and messages can be saved in a database for future use.