While you were updating your resume, has anyone here had a large number of contacts retired, resigned or just plain don't exist anymore?

While you were updating your resume, has anyone here had a large number of contacts retired, resigned or just plain don't exist anymore?
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answer:I only list former employer “company names” on my résumé. I would never include individuals’ names there, since the résumé can be passed around for who-knows-how-long and to god-knows-where. Your personal contacts and references are far too valuable to list that casually. When someone has enough interest to contact you based on the facts you present there, then you can tell that person the contact and reference information that they need. And it’s not at all unusual for employees to come from folded businesses. One of my good friends at my current employer lost his former job in the Enron implosion over ten years ago. We were lucky to get him as a result.
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