The Job Application Deadline

Do you wait until the job application deadline to send in your resume for a job you are interested in?

Email has made it so easy for people to submit resumes quickly, hiring managers often use various techniques to quickly reduce resume submissions they receive down to a short list.

I’ve actually heard of hiring managers who will pick up a stack of recently submitted resumes and simply making their short list from that pile.

If you happen to send your resume in several days later, you won’t be considered!

True, not all hiring managers do this...hopefully.

But I've seen it done.

When a job posting has a deadline, believe it. By the time the deadline passes, the hiring manager probably has more than enough resumes to read through and they might have already starting putting a short list together.

Unless there is a specific reason why you’d wait until the last minute to submit your resume, ensure it arrives as early as possible.

Sure, take your time to get your cover letter and resume in perfect shape and then get your application sent in ASAP.