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Guidelines : Acknowledging Receipt of Resume
Acknowledging Receipt of Résumé
Guidelines and Alternate Phrases
- Confirm receipt of the résumé and/or letter.
- We have received your letter expressing an interest in working for HardGlow. Although we have very few openings at the present time, we are enclosing an application for you to complete. After we receive your completed application, we will contact you again if we have an appropriate opening.
- We have reviewed your résumé along with those of other applicants and have selected for further consideration an applicant whose background more closely matches the job requirements.
- Thank you for forwarding your résumé. We will review it carefully, and should we have any suitable openings, we will phone you to schedule an interview.
- Thank you for your well-written letter outlining your qualifications and your interest in a job with Metbar.
- We have received your résumé; your credentials are impressive.
- State your intentions with regard to the résumé: Will you file it for future reference? Forward it to someone else? Review and evaluate it with your staff? Call later to arrange an interview if you are interested in talking further?
- Our plan is to spend the next two weeks reviewing the résumés from the many, many qualified respondents to our ad. If you have not heard from us by March 1, you can assume we have filled the position.
- We have a number of applicants to consider and will be in touch with you if the situation warrants.
- We will circulate your résumé to any managers who have openings where your experience is appropriate. They will contact you directly for an interview if they would like to discuss specific possibilities with you.
- We will be reviewing your résumé along with those of several other candidates in the next few weeks. If we find a suitable match between qualifications and job, we will call you to talk further.
- We have taken the liberty of forwarding a copy of your application and résumé to our other subsidiaries. Representatives from those companies will contact you if it appears your credentials are what they need.
- Close with a general goodwill statement. Thank the applicant for his or her interest in your organization.
- We appreciate your desire to become affiliated with Metbar.
- Thank you for giving us an opportunity to review your information.
- Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
- Best wishes in your job search.
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Example 1:Acknowledging receipt of resume templates
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Dear Mr. Graves:
Thank you for forwarding your résumé to us; we are always pleased to hear from those who have high regard for our organization and consequently seek employment here.
We will be reviewing your résumé, along with several others received after The Wall Street Journal ad appeared last week. If, after our review process, your experience and expectations seem to match those of the position we want to fill, we will call you to discuss the possibility of an interview.
We appreciate your letting us review your résumé.
Sincerely,
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Example 2: Acknowledge receipt of CV letter
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Dear Ms. North:
Thank you for submitting your résumé to ATW in response to our advertisement about the sales representative position.
We have carefully reviewed the information you provided. Although your experience and qualifications are outstanding, there is not a close enough match with our current job opening.
Your résumé will be kept on file for 12 months. Should a suitable position become available in that time, we will contact you again.
Thank you for your interest in ATW.
Sincerely,
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Example 3: Letter to applicant acknowledge receipt of cover letter
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Dear Ms. Hargroves:
Your résumé has been received in response to the recent ad about sales representatives. All résumés are currently being reviewed to find appropriate matches in skills, experience, and interest level.
We will contact you again in 30 days if there is a further desire to discuss employment possibilities.
Thank you for your fast response to our ad and for your interest in working at Metbar.
Sincerely,
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Example 4: Letter to applicant
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Dear Mr. Herrington:
We have received your résumé for the consulting assignment in South Africa. As our plan now stands, we will be forwarding résumés of all those who have expressed interest in the project to our Boston office, where they will select those they wish to interview.
If there is further interest from them, Martin Cardwell from that office will contact you directly. Thank you for taking the time to prepare a résumé for us.
Sincerely,
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