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YOUR MEANS OF CONTACT

Keeping your means of contact alive is very crucial as a job applicant. A potential

employer might see your profile or resume somewhere and wants to contact you for

further enquiries or invite you for an interview. Someone who knows you are looking for
a job could as well see what matches your qualifications and skills and wants to call your

attention to it or bring you in. It will be bad if they cannot find a means of contacting you.
As trivial as it seems, being unreachable at the right time can cost you an employment

opportunity. You would not want that to happen to you, would you? Therefore, it is
important to keep your means of contact or addresses alive and functional as you hunt

for jobs. The following means of contacts are important.

Your Email: According to Wikipedia, Electronic mails (emails) is a method of

exchanging messages (mail) between people, using electronic devices. It allows
communication between a sender of a message and the receiver in a fast, cheap, easy to

use and economic way. As a modern tool of communication, emails are almost inevitable
in the world of sending and receiving correspondences. It is the preferred medium for

official and formal communications in corporate organizations, government

establishments, offices and among individuals.

Today, emails play a significant role in recruitment exercises because it is the preferred

medium through which the employer receives your application and/or supporting
documents and likewise, replies you. Like the conventional postal services, both the

sender and the receiver of letters have contact or postal addresses where the letters go to,
so do emails. You need a functional email address registered on the server of a good

email service provider like Yahoo mail or Gmail. Your notification of receipt of
application, progress reports, invitation for interview, notification of interview results,

notification of offer of appointment and other necessary information with regards to
your application are sent through your email address. Because of the role that emails

play in the employment process, it is important you have a functional email address as a
job seeker.

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