Back in the early 90s I was looking for a better job and attended some courses. One piece of advice was to change your answering machine outgoing message to something professional. Still applies.
That is good advice. And FGS please. Please clean up your social media sites. If a hiring manager would look at some Facebook pages and see all the crap ongoing, why would they want to hire someone like that?
I used to have a friend with Richard Nixon imitation on his answering machine.
“My fellow Americans, Jason is unavailable at the moment. But, since I am a well known expert on recording messages he asked me to let you let know, he’ll get back to you when he can. All you need to do is leave a message after the the beep. Oh, and I am not a crook!”
My voicemail message is automated:
“The person at 555-555-5555 is unavailable to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone.”
That’s it. Simple and to the point. I learned from a friend that it also discourages telemarketers from calling or reselling my number to other telemarketers.