My very best resume suggestion … Give some thought to the shelf-life of the email deal with you list in your resume. College students – Ah,
Windows 7 Pro, that .edu email address. It’s nice when you are in school, but 6 months or a year after graduation, you may find it no longer works. While this doesn’t matter prior to graduation, you may find you miss a few golden opportunities down the road. Resumes tend to resurface. A recruiter may find an outdated resume posted on a job board or sitting on a stagnant home page. I’ve played that “where are they now?” game many times when I’ve run across a 2 – 3 year old resume of a former student. The problem? I don’t know how to get in touch with them. The phone number and mailing deal with dates back to school, and the e mail deal with no longer works. So, college students, my advice is to checklist your .edu address along with another standard email address (hotmail,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, gmail, yahoo,
Windows 7 Ultimate Key, etc) you plan to hang onto and check periodically down the road. You never know what interesting opportunities await you in the future. Experienced jobseekers – Take my .edu argument and apply it your work e-mail handle. A big chunk of experienced people submit their resumes using their work e mail tackle. Two problems: 1) Just like in the “where are they now game?,” work e mail addresses deactivate as soon as you change jobs … and 2) many recruiters and hiring managers will tell you they find it unethical for an applicant to record their work e mail deal with on a resume. You are job seeking on a current employer’s dime and time – hmmm, shady? Plus, current employers have the right to see what you are up to on their e mail domain ... probably a can of worms you don't want to open. Personally, as a recruiter, I cared little about argument 2,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, as I don’t believe there is necessarily malicious intent by the employee who lists a work e mail handle – but I believe I may be in minority on this one. Be aware this perception is out there. Like I suggested below,
Windows 7 Key, stick with a generic (and professional sounding … no HotGirl1975 handles ;-) email tackle you plan to keep around for a while. gretchen