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What Not to Do on a Self Employment Resume

Protect Privacy Even When Promoting

Mar 3, 2009 KC Morgan

There are a lot of tips and plenty of advice out there to learn how to create a great resume, but what shouldn't go on the page? Protect privacy even when promoting.

It’s always important to maintain an up-to-date resume even when enjoying an established job, but in self employment the resume takes on even more significance. Often, self employed professionals send out resumes on a regular basis simply to drum up new work at home opportunities. But what shouldn’t go on a resume?

Learn how to protect privacy even when promoting, and learn how to do it without sacrificing the resume itself. It’s a tricky business to be self employed.

Self Employment on a Resume: What Not to Do

What shouldn’t go on a resume that features self employment? For starters, home addresses. Those who work at home may use their personal address as a business, but that doesn’t mean this sensitive information should be widely offered to all comers. It isn’t a good idea at all to include a home address on a resume which is routinely sent out across the Internet to various work at home opportunities and employers. Remember to protect privacy at all times, especially insofar as the World Wide Web is concerned.

Phone numbers also have no place on a self employment resume. Web site urls and email addresses are perfectly sufficient as contract information when initially contacting someone regarding a work at home opportunity or freelance position. What shouldn’t go on a resume? Any personal contact information such as that described above, social security and banking information or anything else which might compromise personal privacy.

Protect Privacy

Sending a resume is often one of the first stages in seeking self employment opportunities. Often, no contact has been established and no contract has been signed before the resume is submitted for review. Remember that not all job opportunities are legit and not all people are above wrongdoing. Protect privacy by keeping contact and personal details private. A self employed resume should offer a list of relevant work experience and skills, perhaps urls which showcase the work referenced. It should not contain anything which could compromise the professional’s identity or safety.

However, some employers and clients may request such personal details for payment or contractual purposes. Remember to be discriminating with this information even when it seems the work is completely legitimate. It’s a good idea to establish a PayPal account to facilitate safe online payments or even to open up a tertiary bank account which has no connection to the individual’s main finances. This account could simply serve as a deposit spot for employers - withdraw monies as they arrive. Always protect privacy even when seeking work, both on resume and in everything else that’s submitted to any employer.

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