What If You Technically Don't Have an Address? (employment, job application, interview)
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First I want to say, this is NOT me. A friend of mine will be living with someone in about a month, but the other person won't allow him to use his address on anything (job applications, etc.) So what is the guy to do when filling out job applications?
I said the only thing I can think of is getting the cheapest PO Box address he can & use that address. What would you guys do? Who generally has the cheapest PO Boxes? The post office or one of those mail centers, like the UPS store or Kinkos, etc?
This friend is excluding himself from even being considered for an interview for many jobs, by not having an address.
Many jobs require background checks--criminal checks, driver abstract checks, child abuse clearances, etc, and they all require a hard, specific home address. If I saw a PO box on someone's application or resume, they would have to have something over-the-top wonderful on their resume (like curing cancer) to make me even consider contacting them, and even then I'd need a real address if I wanted to go from the interview stage to the background check stage. And that's even before considering how an address is necessary for anyone who is hired, for payroll and taxation purposes.
In all honesty, if I'm going through a bunch of applications or resumes, and weeding out the ones that merit an interview, I'm probably ruling out the guy with no address. To me, it says "instability." If they don't have the stability to have a real address, they probably won't have the stability to stick with a job and its demands.
This friend is excluding himself from even being considered for an interview for many jobs, by not having an address.
Many jobs require background checks--criminal checks, driver abstract checks, child abuse clearances, etc, and they all require a hard, specific home address. If I saw a PO box on someone's application or resume, they would have to have something over-the-top wonderful on their resume (like curing cancer) to make me even consider contacting them, and even then I'd need a real address if I wanted to go from the interview stage to the background check stage. And that's even before considering how an address is necessary for anyone who is hired, for payroll and taxation purposes.
In all honesty, if I'm going through a bunch of applications or resumes, and weeding out the ones that merit an interview, I'm probably ruling out the guy with no address. To me, it says "instability." If they don't have the stability to have a real address, they probably won't have the stability to stick with a job and its demands.
I used a P.O. box address on all my H.R. forms without a problem. If anyone were to ask WHY I have a P.O. box the answer is simple. I grew tired of logging trucks and bored teenagers taking it down every other month.
A POB at a post office is the cheapest, but a PMB at a mailbox store will give him an actual address. FedEx/Kinkos stores don't have private mailboxes for rent, and a box at a UPS or Postal Annex store can run close to $200 per year. I have a private mailbox and it costs me $78 per year.
A POB at a post office is the cheapest, but a PMB at a mailbox store will give him an actual address. FedEx/Kinkos stores don't have private mailboxes for rent, and a box at a UPS or Postal Annex store can run close to $200 per year. I have a private mailbox and it costs me $78 per year.
This ^. Functions just like an address, For nearly all needs. Will be very helpful in your friend obtaining employment to move ahead.
I always use PMB, never used my home address. It is a great idea to couple it with google voice number. It gives you a great amount of privacy, particularly for women. Women don't give out phone numbers to strangers but have no issue posting resumes online with their private information for the world to see.
If you don't want to pay, just use whatever address. Nobody cares!
How would he know if you used it or not? I would just use the address anyways, and if you get the job then you can put down a different one on your I9's and what not.
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