Share your resume as a link.

The email attachment is the default way to send a resume, and it's quietly the worst. It can trip spam filters, it shows the recruiter a download prompt instead of your CV, and it tells you nothing about whether anyone actually opened it. A link fixes all three problems at once.

Here's how it works. You host your resume, and we hand back a clean URL. Open-tracking is on by default. Put the link in your application email, your LinkedIn, your email signature. When a recruiter opens it, you see it. Most resumes are PDFs; if yours is a Word file, convert a Word document to PDF first so the formatting holds on every device, or put a Word doc online if the recruiter asked for an editable copy.

If you're applying for design, product, or front-end roles, a resume alone undersells you. The stronger move is to send a portfolio to a recruiter as one combined link. When you update the CV, the link stays the same. Swap the file and everyone who already has the link sees the new version.

All of this works on the free plan. Once you start applying widely, you can brand your link with a custom domain and remove NudgeHost branding from the link, both worth it at that scale. For the full walkthrough, read our resume link walkthrough.