This morning, while doing one of my trademark binge desk cleans (home too… but I won’t fully confess to that), I found a single, lonely page of a resume. Page two.
No name. No clue who it belonged to.
And this is exactly why I’m writing this.
I still print resumes when I’m moving into interview mode—and I’m not the only one. Plenty of hiring managers and recruiters do the same. When pages get separated, the second or third page without a name becomes unusable. It’s an orphan. And in this case? A completely anonymous orphan.
This isn’t groundbreaking career advice, but it’s one of those small details that quietly says a lot about a candidate’s professionalism and foresight:
Put your name on every single page of your resume.
A simple header is enough. It shows attention to detail, and it acknowledges how your resume may actually be used in the real world—not just how it looks on your screen.
And since you’re already in there updating things, double-check two more small (but mighty) details:
Your phone number—and that your voicemail works.
Your LinkedIn profile link. Make it easy for people to find you.
Tiny details. Big signal. And trust me—the last thing you want is for your beautifully crafted second page to end up nameless and unidentified during someone’s desk-cleaning spree.
