Which Contact Info You Need, Which Is Optional, and Which to Avoid
More contact info isn't always better. Some details help a recruiter reach you faster — others just add risk without adding value.
Necessary
Your full name, a phone number you actually answer, a professional-looking email address, and your city (not a full street address) are the essentials. This is everything a recruiter needs to identify you and reach out — nothing more.
If you're applying across borders or to remote roles, add your country alongside your city and consider including WhatsApp availability explicitly, since it's the primary contact channel many employers in the region actually use.
Optional
A LinkedIn profile or a portfolio/work-samples link is worth including if it's genuinely up to date and relevant to the role (designers, developers, and writers benefit most from this). Listing which languages you speak and at what level is also useful context, especially in a trilingual job market — but it belongs in a dedicated Languages section, not squeezed into the contact line.
Avoid
Leave off your full home address, national ID or passport number, marital status, religion, and date of birth. None of these help a hiring decision, they can expose you to identity theft if the document is shared or leaked, and some of them can invite unconscious bias into the screening process rather than keeping the focus on your qualifications.
A photo falls in this same category in most cases — it's customary in parts of the region, but it adds no information relevant to the role and is one of the most-cited sources of unconscious bias in screening research. If you include one, keep it professional and skip it entirely for remote or international applications where it isn't expected.