Jim Stroud’s The Recruiters Lounge

Have you ever come across a resume and the only contact information you found was an email address? If so, you may find this information useful. (And if you have not subscribed to my blog via email already, please do so now so you can get a free copy of my new book- Resume Forensics. Click here for details)

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Below is the resume of… let’s call him “Mister X.” (I have blurred out certain data in the screenshots below to protect his privacy.)

I found Mister X online while doing a routine search for Software Developers with a background in C++. The skills were in line with what I want which is great, but the only contact information on the resume is an email address and (what if) I need to get them on the phone. I need to get them on the phone - NOW! So what do I do? Hmmm… I got it.

The first thing I will do is look at the homepage URL he has cited on his resume. I go there (as shown below) and I see an online version of his resume. But still, no phone number… bummer.

Okay, time to be clever. I go over to Google and type in “whois” and the domain name of the homepage cited on the resume. In other words, if the homepage of the resume was myresume.com, my Google search string would be:

whois myresume.com

At the top of the search results is the “whois” record for that domain. (Just in case you are saying to yourself, “Who is record? What’s that?” Let me explain… Whenever somebody buys a domain name, they register themselves as the owner of that domain name and (usually) list their contact information as well. (To see it, click the link at the top of the search results where the arrow is pointing in the picture below.)

Clicking that link takes you to a “Domain Tools” page (shown below)

Scrolling down to the end of the page, I see the “whois” information he created when he bought his internet domain.

And this is a closeup of that information, although its still blurred out. If it were not, you would see this person’s name, phone number, fax number, email address and home address. (Interesting, yes?)

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Happy Hunting!

-Jim

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