Make Sure Your Resume Contact Info is Readable!

Your resume may look fantastic with your name and contact information in the header & footer  - it also makes it easy to format and keeps the content nice and clean. 

But beware!  Most resume databases won’t recognize your name or contact information when it’s in the header/footer.  That means that any place that you have uploaded your resume through an online system – has recorded your name as “Objective” or “Summary” (the first few words of the content portion of your resume) and all of your contact info is lost - unless someone on staff notices the error and takes the time to fix it.  Not likely, in a market where candidates are flooding companies with resumes and applications.  Recruiters can hardly keep up!

So, do yourself a favor…pull your contact information out of the header/footer section and drop it into the resume.   That way, when someone wants to contact you about a job, they can!

Comments

[Barbara Safani]

This is an excellent tip. Functionality trumps beauty on a resume every time.

[Jon Davidson]

Sites that require a resume upload will typically require that a user fills out their information in the appropriate fields as well.
If you prefer to maximize page space, there is no need to use the header and/or footer if you simply expand the margins and reduce their respective sizes. You can have both a beautiful and functional at the same time. I enjoy reading your blog and think you have excellent insight and knowledge. Thanks, Jon

[loriharrod]

Thanks for the comments, Barbara and Jon! I appreciate it.