Career Hub has a tidbit I never thought about before – how many phone numbers to put on your resume.  According to Mark, having two or three numbers listed makes you look desperate, and also confuses employers as to which one they should use.  He suggests keeping it simple and professional and giving the decision-maker just one phone number, preferably your cell.  

Mark also says that you shouldn’t answer an unidentifiable call between 8 AM and 6 PM during the business week. As a busy executive, you don’t want to give employers the impression that you're sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring.  Or, if you do answer, you should ask the caller if you can call her back - and set a time.  Then you can do a little research before you get blind-sided with questions.

While we’re on the topic of resumes and phone numbers, I often get asked by business world neophytes if they should put reference contact information on their resumes.  The answer is an unequivocal no.  Your references are extremely valuable, and they probably wouldn’t like it if they knew you’d put their private information out there for anyone to pick up and use.  Plus, you want to control who has this information so that you can adequately prepare your references for incoming calls and fill them in on what to stress for individual opportunities.

Believe me, if a prospective employer wants to check your references, he’ll ask for them.  It’s not necessary to take up precious resume space with this – even to say that your “references are available upon request.”