In light of a weakening global economy, more and more citizens all across the world are seeking employment online – and some more successful than others. Indeed one of your friends may have no trouble at all finding a job and getting hired online, while you are left waiting by the phone or constantly checking your e-mail for a reply to the resume you placed online. The fact is, however, that some companies might not even be receiving your resume; and this is neither your fault nor theirs. In reality, you can blame online email spam filters.

Yes, this is the same spam filters we are used to – the very system that was meant to help out the average computer user by spam blocking. Instead internet users are seeing more genuine e-mails being blocked every single day. And when it comes to something as important as your online resume, this is a chance that you simply can’t take.

Fortunately for online job seekers, there are several steps you can take to try and avoid having your resume marked as spam.

#1: Avoid free e-mail accounts such as Yahoo. Some of these are automatically set as spam in certain spam filters.

#2: Don’t use a generic e-mail name; in fact, you may want to setup a private account using your real name. Of course you’ll want to avoid using this e-mail account for anything other than business or other professional communication.

#3: Whatever you do, don’t send your resume more than once. Not only does this increase the odds that your resume will be marked as spam, it also may annoy the company and end up costing you the position.