Some of the advice also seems odd: "For instance, if your résumé still includes your street address or an older email account (such as AOL or Yahoo)." Yahoo is the second-most popular email provider and I doubt it would really send off an alarm bell for a recruiter. Why not include your street address on a formal document like a résumé, anyway?
> Why not include your street address on a formal document like a résumé, anyway?
Sadly we live in a world where people still run the risk of being judged on the basis of the neighbourhood they live in, rather than the skills they can bring to a job. By including a street address or postcode in our résumés, we invite people (or more often, nowadays, ML-based algorithms) to make sweeping judgements about us before we even reach the first stage of the hiring process.
Some of the advice also seems odd: "For instance, if your résumé still includes your street address or an older email account (such as AOL or Yahoo)." Yahoo is the second-most popular email provider and I doubt it would really send off an alarm bell for a recruiter. Why not include your street address on a formal document like a résumé, anyway?