Hi Mike,

Thanks for commenting and retweeting this post.

You bring up two important points.

It has not been my experience that a recruiter will pass on a candidate with no street address on their resume. My understanding is that, if a candidate has all the goods and is of interest, recruiters will likely let her or him know if they’ve done something wrong on their resume. They’ll either make the revision themselves, or have the candidate do it, before passing the resume on to their client companies.

Good point to avoid using the Word header. I never do.

Best,
Meg

Other career coaches I’ve spoken with regarding the contents of a resume have taken the position that not including a physical address is a negative. They take the position that a recruiter may believe a candidate is masking something if an address is not included and will likely pass on the candidate as a result. It sounds like your experience has been different from this.

I’ve also been told that using the MS Word header for your contact informtion is a mistake as the automated software used to scan resumes does not read this area and causes a resume to be sent to the stack that must be manually reviewed (but seldom is) in order to be entered into a recruiter’s candidate data base.