Resume Fax Service - Internet Fax

A resume represents the candidate to the recruiter. Recruiter judges a candidate after considering the details in specified in this document. The applicant sends his resume to companies or recruiters in correspondence to the advertisements published in newspapers, internet.

Now-a-days many fax companies provide resume fax service. This is similar to broadcasting in which your document is sent via e-mail to several recruitment companies and employers. If you don’t have facsimile machine from which you can send it then the companies which provides resume service is better option. These companies charge minimal amount to do so. But before purchasing such service or investing money in it; you have to consider some factors:

1. Are recruiters receiving your sent resume? 

2. Can you find an alternative way to fax your details for free?

There are many free fax service companies which permit you to send faxes from your email client or your browser. You don’t have to pay anything to these companies.  In many cases the free services give you better quality of the service than paid one. Before submitting your bio data to free faxing company check the details mentioned in it. If everything is ready, you can send the document to all recruiters via this service. It will take some time before a recruiter decides to call and schedule an interview so you have to be patient.

Country using online fax most.

Online faxing which means scanned document sent and received using Internet. This utility is getting very popular day by day. This is because it is very easy to use. Only you have to get connection of Internet and one pc. With web fax you can transfer documents to any place where there is net access.   

There are many countries in the world that are using this virtual fax to conduct almost all executive functions. China is the most net fax using nation. According to one survey the total users in China were 513,100,000 which were 38.4 % of its population and 22.5% of total world population.  

There are 10.8% users in USA. Though it ranks second in the average, the total users were 95,354,000 that is 78.3% of its populace. USA is a nation which always creaates revolution. There is huge mass using Internet and thereby net fax.

India is the third state which falls in the queue of virtual fax users. 50, 00,000 people that is only 10.2% of the country take the aid of Internet for transmitting paper work which accounts 5.3% of earth’s population. Though the percentages are not very big India is developing country. It is sharply moving towards IT. Therefore this number will get raised very steeply. 

Japan, Brazil, Germany, Russia, Indonesia, United Kingdom are line which account 4.4%, 3.6%, 3.0%, 2.7%, 2.4% of the total world’s population.

Internet Faxing From PDA

Internet faxing is an online service. Due to its speed, less cost and diverse functionalty online faxing has become easy. Faxing is thus facilitated to any device from which web access is possible. Thus when the technology advanced and powerful hand held devices were developed; this facility was extended over them. Today there are varieties of devices that can be categorized under mobile devices. Such devices include Mobile Phones, Personal Digital Assistance (PDA), and Palm Tops. Faxing using hand held devices is known as mobile faxing.

To avail this facility across PDA needs following things:

• Web Connection

• Mail account access over device. User should be able to send and receive mails using mail account

• Subscription to any Internet faxing service providing site.

There are several ways of connecting to internet using PDA. It depends upon how user is convenient accessing Internet with the device. User can use regular dial up connection by connecting Personal Digital Assistance to Desktop or can make use of Wi-Fi networks in vicinity. It can be synced with desktop as well. Sync will allow the device to access web connection from desktop as well as mails. It can also use GPRS connection by contacting to service provider.

Advantages of Mobile Fax

1. It allows you to fax from any location, any time using web.

2. It facilitates subscriber with ability to print the document on any fax machine.

Printing a Document

It does not require buying a fancy mobile printer or any other devices for the purpose. All you need to do is

• Compose a mail with document to be printed attached to it.  Mail the document to the fax number of    closest machine.

• The subscribed facsimile service provider will convert the document to facsimile.

• The document than can be printed from a fax machine.

Internet Fax Using Office 2010

Cloud Faxing is most comfortable and popular way of sharing documents now-a-days. This has improvised the way facsimiles were sent earlier. Considering the regular need of faxing there are many companies who started providing this facility. The service is charged depending upon the package chosen by the customer. The organizations need facsimiles transmission regularly. Considering this requirement Microsoft has also extended this facility to user. It has extended this feature in Office 2010 which allows Outlook,  Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as to be transmitted as online facsimiles.

This feature is disabled for all versions of Windows by default. To utilize this feature it is necessary to enable it. This requires installing proper drivers for same. The drivers that must be installed for same are known as Windows Fax drivers. This feature can be enabled on Windows home edition of XP onwards version. For Server edition Windows, it is available on version Windows Server2003 and Windows Server 2008.

The feature is activated only after certain setting made in Control Panel. There are different ways of activating the service. These different ways are applicable on different versions of operating system. Every version require to manage setting using Control Panel. Here user requires modifying setting in Add/Remove Programs or in Programs and Features for Home Editions. The Server Operating System needs to add a role of Fax Server to host and utilize the service.

How to secure Internet Fax?

Information transmitted over internet is vulnerable to snooping. Moreover the data can be mangled with. Hence there is always a necessity of secure transmission. Cloud faxing is no exception to this case. The documents to be faxed needs to be secured. There has to be some security measure taken that will ensure safe transmission of data.

Security techniques that can be implemented are:

1. Encryption:  There are various algorithms, like RSA and Diffie-Hellman that can be used for the purpose. Encryption is a process of generating cryptic text from the meaningful text. It is simple scrambling of words to make them appear random. In cloud faxing generally the fax is sent as a mail document to the given mail-id. The documents then are encrypted using a dedicated system for the same purpose.

2. Digital Signature: This technology allows generating a signature for identifying the sender. The signature is generated for every single communication. This signature is known only by the sender and receiver. Due to this any intruders cannot easily acquire the information within those documents. Thus providing secure transmission of data across network.

Thus cloud faxing is more secure than traditional system. It provides better security and hence is suitable for transmission of confidential and sensitive information. Considering these additional feature, it has gained popularity across globe.

Introduction To Fax Server

Cloud faxing involves service providers who provide us with a number sequence. This is used for faxing purpose. This number is nothing but a service connection. When an organization approaches a service provider they allot a number referring to particular connection setup with an organization. This number marks the bandwidth which subscriber will be using. To process a request from customers, to make a connection available to them is carried over a server. A server is installed and maintained by service provider to handle various customer requests.

A online fax server is a system used for hosting the site that provides this service. It is a system that can be installed on Local Area Network Server. The computers connected with such LAN can send and receive the documents. Online service providers mainly depend on this server for service. It is a software program which when installed will enable sending and receiving of fax.

To host such service, a server computer is needed. It is installed with a software. This software alone cannot enable document sending and receiving facilities. It also requires a capable modems which are attached to the telephone lines.  This set up of modem connected with telephone line is now replaced by modem emulators. It is nothing but software that performs the job of actual modem. This emulator makes use of T.38 transmission technology for sending and receiving documents over IP (Internet Protocol). It is a fax relay standard that specifies a permissible way of transporting documents over IP as facsimiles.

What is Internet fax cover sheet and how to create it?

Anything you do; should have professional approach. If sending fax is your frequent activity; with every document you reflect your business. So the documents should be in proper format with cover sheet.  This cover gives professional touch to your business. It is placed over the documents and appears as the first page of the fax.

It includes name, address and the number of the sender and receiver and other information about the documents like date, number of pages which are being sent. You can also send a custom message or comments on this sheet to sender. This ensures that your papers are going to reach to exact recipient.

You can find free covers on the web in word format and even can customize them. There are programs on the Internet where you can create your own . Word processing software also aids you to prepare your own one. Just open any software like MS word. Create a new blank document. At the top type “Fax cover Sheet”. Fill the information in the given space like from, to, number of pages, date etc. Save this document and you can use this when you want to send online. You can also print this.

You also have an option to compose your cover sheet online. Just visit the link http://docs.google.com/templates. Select letter and faxes category from left sidebar. Choose the fax cover you like. Type all necessary information in the space they provided. Click save in the file menu. It will be saved in your Google account. You can print it from there as well to get hard copy and use it in the facsimile machine.