Q: I made a stupid, but honest mistake. I've been working off of the same résumé since college about four years ago. When formatting my résumé, I embedded a hyperlink with my college e-mail address. When I changed the e-mail address years later, the first two letters of my new address were the same. I received a copy of my résumé back from an automated program (the news organization is quite large), which revealed the underlying hyperlink-- to my college e-mail account.

The question is: how do I recover? Given the emphasis on having clean copy on a résumé, is there any excuse for having an email bounced back.

Should I just resend the résumé and pretend nothing happened?

Dan

A: Yes, send it again and say nothing.

It sounds as though some big corporate computer simply coughed up your e-mail.

I doubt any humans -- or editors -- saw it.

Even if they did, I think most would shrug it off as a formatting error rather than a horrific typo.

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