{"id":1011,"date":"2020-06-01T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:58:49","slug":"should-i-include-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/should-i-include-references\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I include references?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In short, <strong>no<\/strong> \u2014 references don&#8217;t belong on a resume. The space on your resume is effective land, so don\u2019t waste it by adding information that <strong>99.9%<\/strong> <strong>of<\/strong> <strong>employers<\/strong> don\u2019t require upfront. Instead, you ought to use this space for a further <em>resume skills section<\/em>, a resume introduction, or more <em>accomplishments<\/em> for <em>resume bullet points<\/em>. Including these details are going to be far more enticing to employers than an inventory of names and phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>References don&#8217;t belong on a resume, period.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, references aren\u2019t requested until after the ultimate in-person interview or near the top of the hiring process. HR departments don\u2019t have time to contact every candidate\u2019s list of references; it\u2019s far more efficient for them to attend until they need to be narrowed down the candidate pool to <em>2\u20133 final applicants.<\/em> So, if you reach now within the hiring process and therefore the manager asks you to supply an inventory of references, then what\u2019s the simplest thanks to present them?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, no \u2014 references don&#8217;t belong on a resume. The space on your resume is effective land, so don\u2019t waste it by adding information that 99.9% of employers don\u2019t require upfront. Instead, you ought to use this space for a further resume skills section, a resume introduction, or more [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[31,282,281,180,239,52],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queries","tag-customized-resume","tag-job-opportunity","tag-job-reference","tag-references","tag-tailored-resume","tag-what-to-include-in-resume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}