Mar 02 2009
Make Yourself Easily Accessible
Someone tweeted about making sure the phone number on your resume is the right one (ie not disconnected). This would appear to be common sense, but reminds me of a resume I got last year. Someone that shares a listserv with me emailed me to find out why her resume at Microsoft wasn’t getting any responses. I looked it up and told her it was because the only contact info on it was her Microsoft contractor email address, and she was no longer on contract so there was no way for an interested recruiter to contact her about FT jobs. She went in and corrected the resume and started getting responses.
One of the most annoying things as a recruiter is finding a candidate that looks good for a specific position and trying to contact them via email, only to be directed to one of those spam filters (Earthlink is a great example). If you make me go through hoops to try and get to you, I’m going to assume you really aren’t that interested.
Do everyone a favor; get yourself an email address specifically for job hunting. If I have to go through extra steps to find you, I’m not going to bother and move on to the next candidate.
This is so true. I recently told the very same thing to someone who had been laid off and who was a bit panicked about her ability to get a new job. She had been with he company for 19 years. Can you believe it, she argued with me, said she would get too much spam if she turned off her earthlink spam filter! Was not interests in a free gmail (etc) account either- we truely can be our own worst enemies!