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Discussion on: What are your tips for an effective developer resumé?

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Douglas McKechie

Always include your contact information clearly at the top of your resume/CV to make it possible for people to contact you!

At the company I currently work for applications get sent in to our recruitment software from various sources (i.e. recruitment websites) and while the resume document uploaded as part of the submission is sent to us, I have found that some of these sites do not seem send us contact information for candidates in addition to the resume.

Last year I was not able to contact several interesting candidates for Dev roles we had open because their resume did not contain contact details.

You need to consider what will happen if the resume is printed or downloaded and saved elsewhere and candidates screened that way; if your name and contact details are not included on your resume how can you expect to be contacted for interview?