Job seekers are vunerable to crime

Over at Cheezhead, the lovely Vanessa Dennis wrote a post about job seekers & their particular vunerability to identity theft.

As the economy heads to the crapper, this is an important post to share with your friends and loved ones who may soon be walking along unemployment row.

A startling quote from the post reads,

A criminal only needs just three out of fifteen key pieces of information to commit identity theft, including date of birth, address, passport numbers, and detailed references.

Yikes, people.

I say don’t even put your address on your resume (if you’re going to post it in a public place like Craigslist…or even a “recruiter only” resume database like Monster, Yahoo, Careerbuilder).  Name, email, phone number and call it good. Ok, maybe include city and state, but not street address.  Never put your date of birth, detailed references or numbers like social security/passport/license, etc. on your resume.  Doing so is asking for troubs, yo.

Be careful out there.

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