startingfromscratch, just left click on someone's "name" and a pop-down list of possibilities will come up, including "send a private message to __________"
I'm retired now but when I was job hunting I would have 2-3 resume's with different slants to them for different types of jobs I might want to apply for as well as a "base" fill-in-the-blank cover letter. That way I just had to tweak the one most appropriate and personalize the cover letter and I could get the resume and letter in the mail pretty painlessly.
Today I'm trying to get some order into my genealogy files and research; I got some ideas in between not being able to sleep last night :-) and I want to sketch them out, how I'd implement them.