Your location is not your employer’s location
You live in Kraków, Poland. Your previous employer was headquartered in Boston, and you worked for it remotely from Kraków. Should your resume say Poland, Boston or “Remote”?
Each describes a different fact. Your header tells the reader where you are based now. A work-history entry describes a past job and its working arrangement. An application form asks for specific information that may not appear on the resume at all. “Remote” describes how you work, not your country of residence.
We’ll use that fictional Kraków-based candidate throughout, with a fictional former employer called Example Harbor. These examples illustrate wording, not work authorization or an employer’s hiring policy.
Write a clear header without a street address
For our fictional candidate, the location line could be:
Kraków, Poland | Open to remote work
Keep your name and relevant contact information in the header too. You do not need a street address to provide an email address, phone number or professional-profile link. Including the country gives an overseas reader context that a city name alone may not supply.
This is a practical default, not a universal CV rule. Teal’s address-on-resume guide generally recommends leaving off a full street address, while noting that conventions and employer instructions vary. Check any specific instructions before submitting.
If hours matter, add scheduling information rather than replacing your country with it. An optional version for the same fictional candidate is:
Kraków, Poland | Time zone: Europe/Warsaw
Remote Hive suggests using “Remote” with a time zone for some applications. That can communicate scheduling context, but a time zone does not answer where you live or whether an employer can hire you there. If you add availability instead, state only hours you can actually maintain. Working overlapping hours does not establish hiring eligibility.
You can also choose to omit location from a resume for privacy. That is separate from answering a requested location field accurately. Neither including nor omitting a location line guarantees fair treatment, screening success or more callbacks.
Label where the remote work happened
Putting “Boston, USA” beside a former employer without explanation leaves the reader to guess whether it was your office or your home base. For the fictional candidate, a clearer work-history label is:
Example Harbor (fictional company)
Headquarters: Boston, USA
Work arrangement: Remote from Kraków, Poland
This distinguishes the company’s headquarters from where the candidate performed the work. If the headquarters adds nothing useful, a shorter alternative is:
Example Harbor (fictional company) | Remote
Use the shorter version when it is unambiguous in context. Resume Worded’s remote-resume guide presents several legitimate formats, including separate employer and worker locations. There is no need to treat one layout as a universal recruiting or applicant-tracking-system standard.
A past-job location belongs to that period. If you have since moved, keep the historical entry accurate and put your new current location in the header. If a job was hybrid, label it hybrid rather than fully remote. The purpose is to make the arrangement clear, not to make every entry say the same thing.
Answer the application’s actual question
Your resume can be clear and still leave an application question unanswered. For our fictional candidate, a field asking for current city calls for “Kraków”; one asking for current city and country calls for “Kraków, Poland.” Neither calls for Boston because a former employer had its headquarters there.
A real example shows why these distinctions matter. In Axon’s Site Reliability Engineer (Australia, Remote) posting, inspected on 15 October 2026, the advert said “Remote anywhere in Australia.” The application requested several items separately:
- A resume/CV upload.
- A “Location (City)” field.
- Current location, expressed as city/state or city/country.
- Australian work-authorization information.
- Australian citizenship and security-clearance eligibility information.
This was an Australia-only role with citizenship/security-clearance requirements, not a role open to anyone who could work Australian hours. Australian residence alone would not satisfy all its conditions. Our fictional candidate’s experience with a Boston-headquartered company would not answer those questions either. This is an example of form structure, not a recommendation that the vacancy is suitable or still open.
Application answers can also affect screening independently of the resume. Greenhouse documents employer-configured rules on custom questions, including optional Auto-Reject rules for essential criteria such as location. Availability depends on the employer’s subscription tier. That establishes a capability, not evidence that Axon or another particular employer enabled it. No screening outcome is established by looking at a form.
It does not follow that every applicant tracking system requires a street address, or that deleting your address defeats a location restriction. Answer residence, work-authorization and sponsorship questions separately, according to their wording and your circumstances. Do not infer a yes or no from your time zone, a past employer’s headquarters or a planned move.
When the form does not fit your country
If Poland is missing from a country list, a form forces an inappropriate US state or ZIP code, or its questions contradict the vacancy, do not invent a local address or select a false country to get through it. Use the employer’s stated recruiting contact route to clarify or report the problem.
Here is editable editorial wording, not a quotation from an employer:
Hello, I’m applying for [role title or reference]. I currently live and would work from [city, country]. The advert says [relevant location wording], but the application requires [conflicting field]. Can you confirm whether this role can engage someone working from [country], and how I should complete the field accurately?
If the employer confirms a firm location mismatch, choose another role rather than disguise your location. A different resume format cannot resolve an eligibility restriction.
Handle address requests and moves explicitly
A private hiring form is not a public resume
You may share a resume widely or make it downloadable. A verified employer’s secure application or later hiring process is a different setting and may legitimately request a full address. Follow verified instructions while limiting unnecessary public disclosure. A full-address request is not automatically fraudulent, but an official-looking form alone does not prove legitimacy.
Before sending sensitive information:
- Independently find the company’s official careers route and check that the vacancy and application destination belong to it.
- Keep banking details and identity-document copies out of the resume.
- Pause and verify premature sensitive-data requests or demands for payment before proceeding.
Axon’s posting provides a concrete employer warning: it directs applicants to its official careers page, warns against premature requests for bank details or Social Security numbers, and says it never charges candidates for hiring, training, equipment or background checks. Those are Axon’s stated safeguards, not proof that every employer uses the same communication rules.
A future destination is not your current residence
If you have a confirmed move, label both the present location and the plan. In a hypothetical variation of our fictional candidate’s situation, with a confirmed destination and date, the line could be:
Kraków, Poland | Relocating to Berlin, Germany on 15 January 2027
If you are only willing to move, use different wording:
Kraków, Poland | Open to relocation
Use these as alternatives, not interchangeable claims. Do not list Berlin as your current residence before moving there. A move date also does not prove permission to work in the destination country. If the form asks where you can work at the proposed start date rather than where you live now, read that distinction carefully and clarify any uncertainty.
Update your resume and application profile when your location or settled relocation plans change. If a change affects an application already in progress, tell the active hiring contact rather than leaving them to discover conflicting versions.
Carry the same facts into your next application
Before submitting, make one consistency check:
- Header: Does the location describe where you are based now, if you include it?
- Work history: Are the employer’s headquarters and your past working arrangement clearly distinguished?
- Application: Does each answer address the field’s actual question, including any separate eligibility questions?
- Planned move: Is it labeled as a plan, with a destination and date only when settled?
Apply the same care when reading a job advert. Headquarters, a displayed advertising location, a hiring-country restriction and required working hours are different facts. For example, Remote’s own job-board introduction, inspected on 15 October 2026, explained that its displayed locations could be advertising locations and directed candidates to the advert’s “Practicals” section for location or time-zone restrictions. That is one employer’s explanation, not a rule for every board.
For a Europe-based reader such as our fictional candidate, Remoote’s Europe remote-job results are a place to compare current hiring-country wording and duties. Not every Europe result accepts applicants from every European country, and a country match does not establish work authorization. Open a role whose conditions fit, read its Requirements and Responsibilities, then use its stated application route. Availability can change, so check the employer’s current advert before submitting.
If no suitable role is available, you can optionally use “Set alerts” for a matching search. Keep the search aligned with your actual location and workable hours, not the location you hope a form will accept.