Why does Alex's resume template not have locations?
Normally I list location of every role as City, State right aligned to the company line and then the date in the next line
Do I need to keep location? Can not including locations hurt? When is it helpful to not include location?
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(3 comments)- 12 months agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
As a hiring manager, I want a candidate who is likely to convert. So if I'm hiring in the Bay Area, I will prefer candidates in the Bay. If I'm hiring in Detroit, I'll be much more likely to interview qualified candidates who are already in Detroit.
If you want to move to the Bay Area but don't live here now, I'd recommend:
- Just removing location info from your resume or LinkedIn
- [more extreme] Proactively put your location as Bay Area
This goes back to a core principle of negotiation: Don't Overshare (Level, Passion, Timeline)
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2 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course HeroGood question, I haven't really thought about that haha. Your question makes sense as on LinkedIn, you generally attach location to your work experience (I just checked and I did indeed do this for my own LinkedIn).
My mentality was that where you physically worked in the past isn't so important, it's more about where you live now (and where you're willing to move to).
Zooming out, I don't think including/excluding location hurts you as it's more about name-brand of the companies you worked at.
My resume is also a relic of an earlier time pre-covid as I've lived in Silicon Valley all my life more or less, worked in-office at Silicon Valley companies (minus Robinhood where I was full-remote), and applied to Silicon Valley companies where I wanted to work in-office.
- 02 months agoMid-level Software Engineer [OP]Taro Community
Do you think that recruiters are more biased towards people who live in the city already? In my resume I clearly mention open to relocation but I have heard that recruiters bias towards hiring people who have worked in the same city theyre hiring before
I live in the midwest (but I want to work in the bay) but I get calls from some jobs here at a higher than random chance I assume its because they see my college and the city im in that ive worked at before
Given that I have never worked in the bay but I want to do you suggest I keep or remove the cities? I would also assume that if theyve seen your college and the companies its assumed you live in the bay bc the head offices are all in the bay for those companies because remote was less relevant then but now a lot of people can work for top companies while being remote
