Poll: Putting Your Address On Your Resume

• Sharlyn Lauby


• 8 May 2012

I received a comment the other day that intrigued me.

In today’s world, why would someone include their address on the resume?  The top of the resume should be name, e-mail and phone number. If a company has an interest in the applicant, they’re going to either call or e-mail.

At first read, this makes sense. Do you really need to include your address on your resume? Then I thought about it a bit more. Is it possible that not listing an address could be a red flag?

So, I thought it would be interesting to do a quick poll. Here’s the question:

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