Thank you for not hiring me. (middle class, paid, education, background)
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Secondly, I shared what headhunters told me about omitting a street address and then I added my own opinion that using a P.O. Box would raise red flags. And it would. Except in towns that use P.O. boxes as a rule, it would create questions in the mind of anyone looking at the resume. In a city or town where people go by street addresses, I'm going to wonder if the P.O. Box was set up because the person isn't really local.
Do you ask why they use a po box or make an assumption and move on?
Headhunters told me a few years ago that a recent trend that they recommend is to remove the street address from your resume. City and State will suffice, so there's no need to get a P.O. Box which would just raise red flags.
But wouldn't that also raise red flags to SOME employers if the street/mailing address has been omitted?
I imagine they would question it in the initial phone screening. If not outright asking for your street/mailing address, they may ask you questions that only locals can answer.
But wouldn't that also raise red flags to SOME employers if the street/mailing address has been omitted?
I imagine they would question it in the initial phone screening. If not outright asking for your street/mailing address, they may ask you questions that only locals can answer.
I did it in my last job hunt, 6 months ago. I leave off the street address for privacy reasons. If they need to contact me, there is a number. They never asked me.
But wouldn't that also raise red flags to SOME employers if the street/mailing address has been omitted?
I imagine they would question it in the initial phone screening. If not outright asking for your street/mailing address, they may ask you questions that only locals can answer.
It could, if they're not keeping up with what's currently being done or if located in a small town that may be accustomed to doing things the way they've always been done.
I work in a major metropolitan area and I'm guessing that more than 90% of the resumes we've received over at least the past two years do not include a street address.
We do not question this when we call them - we're aware it's what people are doing.
Now that I am in need - in the streets with nothing but a suitcase, a shopping bag, and an umbrella - I figure while I'm at it, I'll maybe buy a piece of cake later on using my food stamps, to celebrate my 30th birthday today, after I check in to a women's shelter, after I take the bus uptown.
Well if your truly desperate and reasonably attractive, you can get a job in a strip club or sell your body. I'm sure that's not the answer you want to hear, but one possible solution if you see no other recourse. It may not be moral, but there nothing moral about being homeless and going hungry either.
If they have what we're looking for, then we'll call them and ask, but it does make us wonder what's going on.
It shouldn't make you wonder anything at all. People use po boxes, myself included, because they are the most secure way to get your mail. Leave it to hr make having a po box into a conspiracy theory. The incompetence never ends.
It could, if they're not keeping up with what's currently being done or if located in a small town that may be accustomed to doing things the way they've always been done.
I work in a major metropolitan area and I'm guessing that more than 90% of the resumes we've received over at least the past two years do not include a street address.
We do not question this when we call them - we're aware it's what people are doing.
Yeah, I have seen it in other people's resumes also. Some of my old bosses had me review resumes for teammates.
When we came across resumes without street addresses, it never occurred to us to ask about it.
If we were going to ask a candidate for an interview, HR was going to call them up not send them a letter.
During the interview process, we started off the questioning on their prior SQL experience. Go figure.
Well if your truly desperate and reasonably attractive, you can get a job in a strip club or sell your body. I'm sure that's not the answer you want to hear, but one possible solution if you see no other recourse. It my not be moral, but there nothing moral about being homeless and going hungry either.
The ignorance is staggering.
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