a resume question

[redbird]

This is a straightforward one, I hope:

One of my previous employers has moved office since I worked for them. Am I correct that I should change the entry on my resume to give their current address, since the point is to enable someone looking at my resume to reach them?

Comments

[erik]

I'd say that's correct.

Unless there was something unique about the physical location ("Assisted customers with network configuration issues at Zeppelin-based location" and now the company operates in a boring office instead of a Zeppelin.)

[dclarion]

You said it better than I could have :o)

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

What do you do if your former supervisor leaves the company or transfers positions? Most job applications that ask for this information are ambiguous as to whether they want the person who actually supervised you or the person currently holding that position.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

When I was getting back into the workplace, after 12 years self employed, not only had two of the companies I used to work from gone without trace, another one was so gone that the building it was based in had been leveled and a whole new housing development had sprung up in its place.

FF

[jenett]

What I did was something like:

[Name of person]
[Title when we worked together] at [employer] [relevant dates]
[contact info]

So, for my former boss who left, it was
[his name]
Head Librarian at School, 2000-2009

I tend to assume (granted, I'm in education, where people do sometimes move around a lot, but there are fewer general HR calls) that people want to talk to the actual people who knew me, not just to confirm employment, so I give them the data that will do that.

[jenett]

My resume only has really basic location info (like city, state) - anything more detailed when in my references.