Please do NOT post your resume to your LinkedIn profile with:

Please do NOT post your resume to your LinkedIn profile with:

  1. your full street address (city, state are fine) think safety and "bad actors"
  2. typos
  3. formatting issues
  4. jobs dating back more than 10-15 years - it IS perfectly acceptable to include older jobs in (previous/older experience category at the end of your employers, and before education)
  5. anything less than updating it to a modern, acceptable format with accomplishment statements (not task-oriented ones)

I say this because I recently saw a peer post her resume to her LI profile with all of these issues in hopes she gets a job. I'm embarrassed for her to have posted it, but she won't listen to me. (Never mind I was looking for a job recently myself.) Her resume has not been updated since 2015.

Good luck to all.

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  1. Anonymous

    If someone does not have the common sense to at a minimum not post their current personal address on any public site, most likely that is not their only issue.
    If you give someone advice and they don't take it, no need to be embarrassed for her or spend any more energy in helping her, especially if she does not want it. Maybe she does not like you or respect your advice. Or it could be your message of delivery is off-putting. Or maybe she has a propensity to be a stubborn husky. Either way If she does not want your advice, accept it and move on. Your advice would have been just fine without including the drama with your colleague.

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