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Do not put your home address and phone number on your resume
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JMcCormack said:
on October 24, 2009 10:25 AM ET
Do not put your home address or home phone number on your resume. A good friend of mine was rob recently because of this. . My friend was called for a job interview. The person stated she was from a company that was hiring. My friend went to the address, which was the company address. The company did not have a opening for the postion and the HR person never called her. She knew at that point that she was scam, somehow. When she got home the police were at her house, she had been rob. A neighbor called the police when they heard broken glass. Please be careful..Keep a record of every job you applied for and the HR's name, phone number etc. confirm job interview. Do not put your home phone number on the resume. Your address could be made known by reverse phone number look up. Use a separate e-mail for jobs and a cell phone for contacts. WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
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edited on November 3, 2009 04:31 PM ET
The advice to carefully vet an organization or company you wish to work for is spot-on for one key reason shared here - to check the legitimacy of a company. In addition, you can research a company to explore it's performance, workplace culture, benefits, advancement opportunities, and more.
Begin vetting a company by searching the Internet for its website. Most organizations' websites will include a profile of their mission, history, primary customers, and new products or services. To get a snapshot of a company's financial status and workplace culture, you can check their website, but know that you may get better results by searching an external site. To do this, enter the company's name in the "search box" of an Internet search engine such as Google or Yahoo. The search engine will pull up related articles, reports and other information relevant to the organization you're interested in.
One of my favorite resources for learning about a company is Hoovers.com. Hoover's extensive database provides up-to-date information on 33+ million U.S. and foreign companies. Much of this information is free and available to the public (more detailed reports are available to subscribers for a fee). To research an organization using Hoovers.com, select the "Browse for" tab at the top of the homepage. Then select "Companies A-Z," to see if your company is in the directory. If it's listed, check out the "360-degree" information pane to read a description about the company, find locations, learn about job opportunities, and even identify the company's primary competitors.
Another helpful resource, especially for vetting smaller or more local companies, is your area Better Business Bureau (BBB). The BBB database lets you review company profiles and check whether consumers have filed complaints against them.
These resources can help you learn more about a company, weed out fictitious ones, and identify those that are underperforming, which you should probably avoid. Oh - and don't forget to ask your local reference librarian for assistance. Oftentimes, they can assist with research or point you to resources to help you conduct your own research.
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edited on October 27, 2009 02:52 PM ET
I want a job so I need to include my phone number, address and e-mail on my resume. I think the ticket is to research the company one is applying for online. When I see a job posted on a job search site, I look at the company's website and have a read on the job description that all company's typically will post on their website. If there is no job opening posted on their website like the job read on a job search site, then I would give the company a call to inquire. I will do all this before e-mailing my resume. I also had the experience one time of uncovering a bogus job posted on a job search site which didn't really exist. MapQuest couldn't locate the address for me, so I looked for the company. I found the company's website and rang their 800 number only to discover no company branch existed in my state, so no job posting was done by them. I never e-mailed my resume and I alerted the company that their name was being used to create bogus jobs. Research the company before e-mailing your resume or if a job recruiter calls you directly, still research and contact the company hiring to confirm the job opening exists....that's the way to go these days.
One must do due diligence when applying for positions. If you are invited for an interview, be sure to get all the contact information. Do homework on the company. Have a prescreening phone call. This incident was a very rare occurrence and would not have happened if the candidate did their homework.
Contact information must be on a resume. As a recruiter for many firms over the years, if I see a resume with no contact information, it goes in "the other pile" as I see it as "red flags". I do resume makeovers and if I see a female without an address, I investigate.
Many are worried about the issue as depicted above. Again, due diligence would probably have taken care of this. I hope this helps. If you are job hunting and you need someone to give your resume a free once over, I'd be glad to give you my take on it. Email it to Howie at hra246@gmail.com and send it as an MS Word (.doc) document.
Where are the Jobs? I believe the answer is with the government! Unemployment must need thousand more just to process the rest of us. All those "Green" job must have 2 bureaucrats behind it. Now we need government classes to educate us how to get government jobs. BTW Just check job growth in DC and other areas. It appears the Government and health will be the only growth areas next 10 years. CBP
