Resume and Address question

[sidious618]

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about resumes but I want to wish you the best of luck and tell you that you're doing the right thing. Keep on plugging away.

 

[Biffette]

An alternate solution would be to rent a PO Box in the relocation area, and to put that address on your resume.

 

[sojourner]

Yeah, it pretty much comes down to what defines a place as "your address". The fact that you sleep there? collect mail there? rent it? own it? At what point does it become lying?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Just put down your current (real) address and tell them you're willing to relocate. Especially in this economy, relocation happens all the time, so don't make a big deal about it.

Agreed with this.

Not only because it's a lie to put information on your resume that is not true (and I don't care what information is a lie; if I were a hiring manager and caught one, that candidate would be gone so fast it would make their head spin)--and you'd better believe that when the background check is run, the lie WILL be caught--but also because do you really want to work for a company that makes its employment decisions based entirely on expediency rather than choosing the best and most qualified candidate? Yes, cost does figure into it, but someone who's that cut-rate is probably not going to be a good employer.

 

[Biffette]

Nerys Ghemor is correct; all it takes is a standard background check or a chatty interviewer asking you questions about the area in which you live. The last thing you want to be doing in your interview is explaining why your resume is not 100% factual. A PO box solves this problem because it is in no way shape or form a deception: "I am about to/have just moved to the area and set up a PO box in advance to make the transition run more smoothly."

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Nerys Ghemor is correct; all it takes is a standard background check or a chatty interviewer asking you questions about the area in which you live. The last thing you want to be doing in your interview is explaining why your resume is not 100% factual. A PO box solves this problem because it is in no way shape or form a deception: "I am about to/have just moved to the area and set up a PO box in advance to make the transition run more smoothly."

I think that's a reasonable compromise that lets you have a local address without any kind of deception involved.

 

[RobertVA]

I wonder if any potential employers reject applicants that use resume instead of résumé (on US keyboards hold down the alt key while typing "0233" on the numeric pad).

Yes, I know a lot of people accept "resume", probably because many people don't know about the alt key procedure or can't be bothered to pull up Windows' Character Map application.