With a high number of Americans changing jobs each month, and majority of companies now requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for employees, should people start putting their vaccination status on their resumes?
Spoiler alert: The answer is you may want to consider it, but with caveats.
Nearly 84% of adults 18 and over are fully vaccinated per the CDC, while 63% of companies are requiring full vaccination status for employees, according to a survey of 1,250 hiring managers in August by ResumeBuilder.com.
More likely than not, proving your vaccination status could help the chances of getting hired, experts say. Sixty-three percent of the hiring managers polled by ResumeBuilder.com preferred seeing a candidate’s vaccination status on the resume, plus a third said that they weed out a candidate that does not include it.
However, 53% of hiring managers said they are more likely to hire a more qualified candidate even if they’re unvaccinated, and the other 47% would choose the vaccinated but less qualified applicant.
"We tell candidates that the first priority with a resume should always be skills and potential fit for the role," says Rich Deosingh, a district president for Robert Half staffing in Manhattan. As for vaccine status, "Do what is going to make you comfortable but know that the conversation will likely be had during the interview process."
The idea of adding your vaccination status to your resume could also lead towards a slippery slope.
"It could be a dangerous precedent – you're putting health information on a resume," says Lisa Rangel, CEO of Chameleon Resumes, a resume and job search consulting service.
LinkedIn says that four percent of job postings require vaccination, and the job site Indeed says that 5.4% of their positing require it -- up about one percent from September.
The American public has been very divided on vaccination mandates. Forty-nine percent of Americans favored vaccination mandates and 46 percent were opposed, according to a CNBC survey in August.
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