Should my cover letter be the message content of the email

Question

OK, the company that I'd like to apply a job for is requiring interested job seekers to send an email to a certain email address. They say that they want us to send our resume along with a cover letter. As usual the resume should be a separate file attached to the email. But, should the cover letter be also a separate file and attached or should it be the content of the message of the email?

Answer 1

I would send two files as attachments, one called Name_coverletter and one called Name_resume.  You can include the body of the cover letter in the email as well, but it's good to include the files because they can save them to file or print them out with original formatting.