Resumes
Unless a company specifies to paste your resume directly into your email, you will normally send your resume as an attachment to your email to a company. A professional email can serve as a cover letter.
You should create a separate transcription-oriented resume for use in applying for transcription jobs. You can begin with your general resume and revise it with a view toward providing the information transcription companies want to see and omitting the information transcription companies don't consider.
If you have recent transcription experience, you might list that at the beginning of your work experience.
For your work experience that is not transcription (or at least word processing) related, you might put only a one-line description of the job duties for each position.
Here is one example of the difference between a job description for a general resume and a transcription resume.
For the general resume:
Computer Systems Administrator
Responsible for computer systems in department with staff of 50; understand needs of users and identify applications to meet such needs; customize, configure, maintain and support applications; provide users with necessary skills, standards and procedures; provide effective access to and use of information/data.
For the transcription resume:
Computer Systems Administrator
Responsible for computer systems in department with staff of 50.
In general, you should emphasize all word processing and transcription experience and deemphasize all other work experience.
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