Leaving: Miscellaneous: Resume Sharing
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Once you have a nice, attractive, current resume, you want to spread it far and wide -- right? Well, maybe, maybe not.
Alan Silverstein, Fall 2002:
My experience so far with LHH Resume Reserve and Monster was that, as I'd been warned about many online resume sharing sites, submitting my resume to these sites was tedious and painful -- moreso for the latter, LHH RR was not as bad (and the LHH staffers can help you with it). The main issue is sites that require you to cut and paste text blocks into windows that are too narrow and your text can get mangled if you are not careful. Also, Monster makes you rebuild an entire resume one, "database field" at a time.
Having a flat-text width adjustment tool on UNIX helped me a lot to get through this. Similar tools exist, I'm sure, in Word, etc, for preparing narrower text before cutting and pasting it. Also, at the top of each submitted resume I included one text line pointing readers to my website for clean, current copies if desired.
Anyway I still encourage you to share your resume on-line as widely as you have time and interest, it couldn't hurt (much) even if it doesn't help. (But see also counterpoint warnings below.)
Larry Shetter, Oct 2002:
- Submit your resume to dice.com. The #1 high tech job search source.
- Post your resume/website to eBay professional services and bid on jobs. Work from home.
- Sell your old stuff on eBay. You would be surprised what selling your old stuff will bring in...
- File a homestead on your home. It protects at least $20,000 if you are ever sued. Forms available at office supply stores. All you need is to have it notarized and recorded...
(Might depend on varying state laws?)
Curt Gowan:
Saw this article in the Mercury: "...resumes posted to many of the sites are often sold to other sites and anybody else who can pay for them. Scam artists posing as recruiters, meanwhile, can also download resumes and do virtually whatever they want with them, the study found... For identity thieves, this is a good starting point... From a resume, you can get names, addresses, phone numbers and locations of every place you've ever lived." -- by Bob Keefe, Cox News Service (article here).
And also, by Pam Dixon, Rose Foundation Consumer Privacy Rights Fund (article here).
Vanessa Cox, Jun 2004:
I wanted to let you know my opinion about sharing a resume on line with job boards like Monster, etc... It certainly can hurt. People who are desperate for a job often send out thousands of blind resumes. They just send it to a "posted job" or to any site. This is a "bed" for identity theft. People know all about you and they only need your SS number and then they are set.
I refuse to put my resume on any job site. Sometimes "jobs posted" are just a net to get info and are not really a job. I only send my resume directly to a company and then I network into the company.
I don't just post anywhere and sit and hope. I make sure to get a contact within a company and work on developing relationships with the companies that I am interested in working for. I am employed -- but as I look for anything new -- those are the rules I stick to...
In summary -- mass posting of resumes to job sites can hurt -- you can be the victim of identity theft.
