The Best Ways to Distribute Your Public Relations Resume

Whether you are an entry level public relations associate or a high-level publicist, you may want to change jobs. Your resume will be the focal point of your own personal public relations campaign. You only need to find out the best ways to distribute it.

Media jobs like public relations are in demand by certain companies. One can do research to determine which of these companies are best to work for and provide the best salary and benefits. It takes an enormous amount of patience and work, but one can discover where to place one's resume.

An easier way to go about this is to go through a resume distribution service to get the names of companies one wants to target. The information about companies one chooses to pursue, coming from one's own work or that of a consultant, is the beginning of the process.

You, or the resume distribution service, can email your resumes to the specific companies you have selected. If you do not know how to do a mass email, it is time to learn. Set it up so that the resume goes to the email in-boxes of every hiring manager of every company on your list. The work may be in finding out the email addresses of the employers.

One can find many employers' email addresses from their company websites. There may even be a special email address for job seekers. Another way to find out employers' email addresses is through networking in one's local area.

If one finds it nearly impossible to find the companies' information that they want, a career consultant can help with this problem. This person should have a virtual rolodex with all the contact information of all the company's hiring agents you wish to reach.

However, if one goes this route, the service will likely include the resume distribution itself. If one is willing to pay for this, it can be a valuable service. It relieves the pressure from one to be able to include all the desirable companies.

One can personalize this service with resume distribution service even further. One may have certain specific companies that should not, under any circumstances, be contacted with a resume. These could include companies where one has worked in the currently or in the past.

The service can red-flag these companies and keep one's resume from going to them. If one does not want to have responses come directly to one, some resume distribution services will set up a special email account. From that account, inquiries can be sorted to be answered or to be ruled out. The sender will not be able to flood your regular inbox with junk email if you do not contact them.

As a public relations worker, you know the value of well-placed personal promotion. That is all resume distribution is. One must perfect the resume package and find the right companies one wants to receive it. Then, it is just a matter of getting those resumes delivered and funneling the feedback to return to you.