Posting Your Resume While Protecting Your Privacy
Last week I discussed the benefits of posting your resume on various “resume-posting sites” for your job search. In researching the topic, I did find some very useful information on maintaining your privacy and data security while taking advantage of these sights and I wanted to share it with you all. According to Job-Hunt.org, “Web job sites generate revenue by selling ‘employers’ access to their resume databases. Access is usually sold to anyone who can pay the price, with minimal screening done to ensure that the purchasers actually have jobs to fill. So your complete work history, education and contact information are available to anyone who can pay the access fee– employers, recruiters, sales people, scammers, identity thieves, etc.” Having said that, it is important that you consider some key security issues and how to protect yourself before using these Web sites for your job search.