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Dear Steve & Jon, I hear a lot of conflicting instructions on what contact information should appear on your resume. What do you say? Signed: Conflicted. |
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Dear Conflicted, Job search techniques continue to evolve, and this one is definitely changing. Yes, I understand all the reasons for omitting your physical address and agree, but personally, I still like to see the address for now. I fully acknowledge, however, that resumes of the future will omit physical addresses, and the only contact data will be your cell phone, email address and LinkedIn Public Profile. Your business cards already should contain only this contact data. (Btw, you must edit/customize your LinkedIn address before using it. If your LinkedIn address contains “pub,” then you must edit it.) |
Dear Conflicted, Some individuals omit address for personal security reasons. Others do not want to be weeded out because of perceived long commute distance bias, which just puts up one barrier in the process of avoiding one bias. Full contact information allows maximum opportunity to be reached and to be hired so I am in favor of showing it. Omitting it may put you just that one obstacle away from being selected. Use your cover letter or other narrative opportunities to claim your comfort with a long commute. I average one resume a month that, once separated from the cover page, shows no name, address, phone number, email address, LinkedIn address or fax number. (Does anyone remember what a fax was?) |