Recently, ResumeDoctor.com studied over 10,000 resumes from a diverse set of industries. The study looked at the actual document file names of the resumes, in order to determine common document-naming conventions.

ResumeDoctor.com found that 54.6% of the document file names do not contain the job seeker's name. 23.7% were named some minor variation of "Resume.doc."

Brad Fredericks, of ResumeDoctor.com, explains, "Recruiters can sometimes receive 500 resumes per on-line job posting. Imagine trying to sift through all of these resumes when over 100 are named 'resume.doc.' It's like looking in a cupboard full of soup cans with their labels torn off."

Many recruiters indicate that they spend a lot of time re-naming resume filenames. Thomas Alascio, a Senior Consultant with Peterson Consulting Group in Vero Beach, Florida, says that every time a job seeker sends a resume, "...when you go to save it, you have to rename it. In a perfect world, when someone sends a resume it would be nice if it was named 'John Smith resume.doc.'"