How to send out your resume--when you don't care if anybody reads it

ATTACHED OPEN WITH WORD

That (see above) was the only text in the body of an emailed resume I received this morning. I might open it now only because I took the time to blog about it, but normally it would just stay right there–unopened. Why?

• Nobody likes to be told what to do.
• This message was flagged for SPAM because I am one of many people it was sent to.
• An unexplained email with a Word attachment begging to be opened is too much like a virus for me to play with.

Would 100 more seconds to write a personal note (with punctuation, and a little less yelling) have gone far to keep this resume from staying in my spam bin?

ABSOLUTELY!