How to build your network with autoresponders
Do you know what an autoresponder is? It is when you send an email to someone and a pre-programmed message gets sent to you immediately. Usually it will say, “Someone from our company will contact you shortly” or “I’m on vacation this week. Look for my call next week.”
When responding to an advertised job online, here is a good response:
• Scenario 1: An e-mail version of the resume in the reply email, with an email autoresponder link to a WORD version of your resume. (Preferably at the top, near your contact info)
• Scenario 2: On your homepage, add autoresponder links to your resume. Of course, you could point them to a webpage with your resume on it, but then you would not have a record of who saw your resume. *Keep in mind that this could work against you as recruiters use certain keywords to find resumes like yours and behold, its not there. I suggest placing a summary about your background on your webpage and then link to your autoresponder link.
Now consider this!
1. A recruiter sends an e-mail to your autoresponder and automatically receives a copy of your resume.
2. You have a list of who requested your resume.
3. You can follow up with them, or set an automatic message to reply to them in 3 days asking them of the status of the job they were considering you for.
Cool idea hun’h? The best part is that there are plenty of autoresponders online for free! The not so good part is that they usually include advertising above and below your e-message, in this case your resume. In other words, there may be a message that says “Eat At Joe’s” automatically placed before and after your resume. But hey, somebody has to pay for it. Of course, you can have the ads removed by shelling out a few bucks, no biggie.
Personally, I use Get Response (http://getresponse.com), but they are not the only game in town.
Here are a few others:
• SuperReply
• The-Automater
• Autoresponders
• RapidReply
• Royal-Responder
• The Newbie Club
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good idea, but the only problem with auto responder is you have no control of what position you are applying for, you could be applying twice to the same role through different recruiters this may disqualify for that role and also once the recruiter has the resume no necessararly they will use it for that role they may apply you for other roles you may not aware as well. This is good for college or university graduates not for experienced professional.