Once you have posted it,
your resume is a public document and out of your control.
Anyone can look in the public
data bases and see what is there. Even the private
resume databanks as well as
thoseoffering -confidential handling" of your resume
may not let you dictate who
can and cannot look at your resume.
To maintain a level of privacy,
consider posting only your skill set, a summary
of your areas of interest and
expertise. Also, instead of putting your home
address and phone number on
the document, consider renting a post office box
and subscribing to an answering
or paging service- when your search is over,
Don't list only an e-mail
address on your resume and assume that the recruiters
who are looking online will
just contact you online. Many employers and
recruiters still prefer to
contact you by phone and will skip over your resume if
a phone number is not listed.
As one recruiter put it, "If this candidate looks
like a good fit for a job I
have to fill, I want to speak with him or her now, not
in several hours or days when
he or she gets around to checking the e-mail."
Yes, they might get your answering
service instead of you, but they still feel
they've connected with you.
Never use your office address
and phone number on your resume. When other
employers see you doing this,
they may feel that you are stealing from your
employer, using company time
for your own purposes instead of business, and
using the company's resources
for your own advancement. If you'll do it to
that employer, the thinking
goes, you'll probably do it to the next one, too.
If you include an e-mail
address on your resume, make sure it is a personal
account. If the only Internet
access you have is through your current employer,
then register for an account
with one of the free e-mail services (see Chapter i)
and go check your e-mail at
the public library's workstations. Like using your
office phone number on your
resume, using your office e-mail for your job search
is viewed by many employers
as stealing. Getting a private e-mail account looks
better and helps you avoid
potential e-mail monitoring by your employer, as well.
