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Part 2 ➤ Six Steps to a Perfect Resume

Alice Friend’s Heading section.

Deborah Lord’s Heading section.

Deborah Lord’s research found that the small nonprofit where she was
applying was planning to establish a presence on the Internet. There-
fore, she put her e-mail address on her resume to suggest that she
could help them out with that process.

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URLs (Web site addresses) are not commonly found in headings for two
Avoid listing your work e-mail reasons:
address on your resume, because
doing so would send your 1. Most people don’t have a personal Web site (and most peo-
prospective employer the mes- ple don’t need one for their job search).
sage that you use company 2. Personal Web sites often contain private information and
resources for personal pursuits—in other stuff a potential employer shouldn’t see.
this case, your job hunt. Instead,
However, if you’re in Web site development, multimedia, or any field
fork out the dough for a per-
where your image might be enhanced because you have a spiffy per-
sonal e-mail account (if you
sonal Web site, put your URL in your heading along with your other
don’t already have one) and
contact information.
put that address in the Heading
section. Dawson Peroni, for instance, was applying for assignments as a Web
game developer. Because his personal Web site had links to some of his
projects, he included his URL in his resume’s heading.

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