How To Block Your Phone Number

As we’ve discussed in our earlier post employers, and corporate recruiters will screen their incoming calls sometimes because the demand for a job is overwhelming other times because recruiters want to see how ambitious your are in your job search and follow up skills.  Blocking your caller ID is an important tool in contacting recruiters who are difficult to get in touch with.  Now we’re here to help you do it.

If you can’t get a hold of a recruiter through traditional means of just calling at all hours of the day you’ll need to try a new strategy.

You’ll want to make incoming calls to recruiters look like this:

Since many people are dropping the traditional land lines and running solely on cellular phones we’ll take a look at how to block your out going information.

Most cellular phones you will look in your phone menu and find your tools or settings icon like this one:

You’ll click on the Settings  icon to get to the settings.  Then scroll through the options until you find something that relates to call or out going calls.  When you find call (or your closest option) select the option:

Most likely you will need to scroll through this menu to find something that relates to your caller ID.  My phone says “Send my Caller ID” and below you can see my phone says let the network decide:

Click on this setting to bring up your selection options:

In the event you want to block your outgoing calls you will need to select no:

You should test that the setting took place by calling someone who will verify with you.

Also you may need to restart your phone after the changes to ensure it communicates back to the service provider.  This will probably need to be done when you choose to block and unblock your caller information.

You can run into obstacles:

One such obstacle is from AT&T which puts up a gate keeper for private or blocked numbers when I did some telemarketing work of the thousands of numbers I called only 1 line used this feature, but it can happen.

Landlines

For those of you out there that are looking to block your phone call from a traditional land line style phone use *67 in the event that you are from the dark ages and have a rotary phone you can dial 1167.