Your resume & cover letter could each be exciting, persuasive, and filled with specific achievements that grab the reader from start to finish, but if the person reading them can’t reach you, then what’s the point of even sending these documents?
This is what I stressed in part one of this article, sharing with you a tragic story of a great candidate for employment who’s contact information was incorrect, making her totally unreachable. You may be wondering, well shouldn’t they have tried contacting her by mail? Sure, we could have. But placing incorrect contact information on her own resume was a blatant error, and a huge mark against her. If she couldn’t even submit a clean, organized resume for us to look over, with her correct phone number, then what other errors would she continue to make if she were hired?
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Resume & Cover Letter Warning - Worst Mistake You Can Make Part 2
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