Leaving street address off resume?

What would you think if you were an MD at small, collegial boutique who was sent a resume, normal (and pretty strong) in all regards, but it had only a city and state for the address at the top next to the email and phone #? How would you react in that...situation?

 

Why would you leave it off? What's the point?

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coffeebateman:
Why would you leave it off? What's the point?

I don't want them googling it, for reasons I can't mention. But, it's not a huge deal if they do, so if it would be very bad to leave it off, i'll include it...so how bad is it?

and yes, it's a male name (and I am a guy)

 
urchin24:

I probably wouldn't notice if it was left out. But your reason seems weird, no one is going to google addresses

I was also confused by this. Would have to guess that whoever is looking at this resume does not have enough leisure time to be googling the shit you put on there.

 

that's not the point. if you have all your personal info on there, ppl you trust shouldn't be so frivolously spamming your shit around to ppl you don't know (or care to know) without your permission. if that happens, whatever - it's not a huge deal. but the attempts to contact (emails/calls/whatever) gets really intrusive and disrespectful at times.

 

Do you have employers sending out your address and phone numbers to telemarketers often? what the fuck are you talking about?

Your address goes on your resume, thats the standard, do it. Maybe they won't notice, but why risk it? That's why there are standards and common practices that we use for resumes, cover letters, etc. They probably won't be googling you, but if you are truly worried about them finding out about the meth lab your roommate was running in your basement, use a different address.

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I genuinely don't understand your comment and how it relates to the issue of including an address on your resume. What do employers do with your address when applying to jobs? What happens that I should be worried about when an employer is "free to do what they please" with the address on my resume? Are you worried that they can exploit this info in some way (share it, use it, whatever), because I doubt this is the only way for them to obtain this very basic personal data. And I'd expect that if you truly want the job you are applying for, you would be willing to take the small risk of them misusing (?) your home address in order to avoid looking ill-prepared in your application.

OP, to answer the question, I guess not, but it will only decrease your chances as the MD would likely find it strange if he happens to notice it isn't there. As far as I know, it is commonplace to have a full address (street included) on a resume, maybe this is outdated due to a shift in communication methods now, but thats still how it is. There are workarounds that are most likely better options than excluding it. I don't think this is a make-or-break issue here, but all it does it draw attention to this secret reason that led you to exclude it in the first place.

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Do people still do this? I've never included an address. It's not like they'll mail you a rejection letter or something. Just do email + phone.

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As a reviewer of resumes, I haven't paid attention at all to addresses and wouldn't notice if it was missing.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

Sometimes employers (or rather HR teams) want to know where you live...: - for reporting reasons (reporting where employees commute from or to), this can either be for their own transportation partners (shuttles), or for county/council reasons (statistics) - they would like to know how much time you'd have to waste just to get to work. They have data that shows which employees might drop out due to commute or whether you'd have to move. - Tax issues. Plenty of cities or office locations which have out-of-state employees (NJ/NYC, ..) - Some companies have car-pooling schemes and they can enter this information once hired

 

When you put your address on your resume, trust me, they figure it out. In the event that your drive would be longer than what's tolerable long-term, your online resume regularly discovers its way into the "perhaps" or "no" heap. So as opposed to including your home address, simply put the city of your employer(s) in the experience section.

 

Best practice is to put the address of the building where you're interviewing.

When they ask you about it, be casual. Admit it, tell them, "brah, i've been sleeping outside the front door waiting for this opportunity. I care about this more than the Apple iPhone XI."

Then they will know you speak dedication. If you speak dedication, you typically piss excellence. So you're golden.

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HFer_wannabe:

We ever determine why the address is not being left on the resume? He sending out resumes from a jail? known whore house?

Personally I used to live in the hood, my actual street was address in a fairly well known and notoriously bad part of town in a city with the worst imaginable reputation. I had serious reservations about putting it on my resume and used my school address.

 
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HFer_wannabe:

We ever determine why the address is not being left on the resume? He sending out resumes from a jail? known whore house?

Personally I used to live in the hood, my actual street was address in a fairly well known and notoriously bad part of town in a city with the worst imaginable reputation. I had serious reservations about putting it on my resume and used my school address.

Not sure why that would be any issue. If anything, you could get brownie points for trying to pull a "Pursuit of Happyness" deal

 

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