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The Riley Guide: Resumes & Cover Letters
Resume Databases and Distribution Services
July 2008
Warning About an Unethical Resume Distribution Service
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Lists of Resume Databases and Services
Most sites with online resume databases also host job databases, so they are listed in the appropriate areas under Job Banks & Recruiters. Most of these are also free for the job seeker. Please use these pages to find the best places for you to post your resume.
Warning About an Unethical Resume Distribution Service
Lately I have been receiving resumes from a service called e-resume.us, but I don't know who they are nor why I am getting resumes from them. So I looked at their website, and found the following statement:"Instant Resume Distribution.The funny thing is, I have never registered with this service as a recruiter because I am not a recruiter. So, how did my email address get in their distribution list? I don't know, but I have been trying for 2 weeks to get it removed without any luck.
Distribute your resume to 100s of recruiters matched directly to your personal career preferences."
I looked at their site to try to figure out who they were, and found the following:
e-resumes.netThis is a UK-based company. So why do they have a .us domain? And how about a phone number? Nothing. Contact email? Yes, there is one, but it doesn't seem to work. They want you to use their contact form, which I have, but they don't understand my request. "Please provide me with the correct email address you have registered with on our website." I sent them the one to which the emails were being sent, but I haven't heard anything from them.
Russell Chambers
The Piazza
Covent Garden
London WC2E 8AA
I also noticed as I went around the site that some pages are titled "e-CVs.net", so I looked at that site. It is the same site, just some language variations. So, I turned next to my favorite tool in looking for background information, a WHOIS database.
Here's what I found for e-CVs.net.
Registrant:and for e-Resume.us
Mr Alex J Braganza
Russell Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8AA
UK
Mr Alex J BraganzaA phone number and email address was also noted, but I will not include them here. However, I did use his email address to contact him directly with my request to be removed from the list of recruiters on his site.
Russell Chambers, The Piazza
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8AA
Great Britain (UK)
He has not answered, and I am still receiving resumes. I have, however, heard from someone who's resume is registered there.
Thank You for letting me know you received my resume. You're very kind! I have been reviewing my resume with a view to making some employment changes. I contacted someone at E-Resume.us, and she assured me that their resources included recruiters who contacted their website to fill positions that fit my profile. I'll take a look at your postings, maybe I can make some progress using that. I'll also request that E-Resume.us stop distributing my Resume, since a mass mailing is NOT what I had in mind.
Uh-oh. Sounds like there is a real disconnect between what is being advertised and what is in fact happening.
To make it even more interesting, as I look through more of his site, I find a third domain name cited on the Terms and Conditions page. This third domain, E-Resumes.net, is actually registered to another person. This makes me very uncomfortable since it essentially nullifies the Terms and Conditions portion of his website and brings this other domain owner into question.
This site charges you, the user, for services rendered. Your money is being wasted by having your resume sent to someone like me who has no interest in seeing it. How many other unqualified or unscrupulous individuals are receiving your resume? And why can't I get my email address removed from their listing? I would recommend that you not use this service, and I might suggest if you have already registered and paid that you close your account and request a refund of your fees. The problem is, I don't know how you'll contact them to do this. I guess by airmail.
A little update for December 2005: a recruiter who handles searches for lawyers called me. Seems she got "registered" for resumes with these folks too, once again without submitting her name. No, she can't get them to stop either. She also can't get them to refine her listing to give her only legal professionals. Seems like they can't get anything right.
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Resume Distribution Services
I personally think of this as a "scattershot approach to searching," and I do not recommend you rely solely on this method of getting your resume into anyone's hands, but you want the information, so I'm providing it.- CVtrumpet
- ...a UK-based service offering to submit your resume to its list of over 3000 registered recruiters for a fee. Your fee depends on your level of employment, and the list of recruiters depends on your qualifications, experience, and targeted geographic area. The registration process appears to be easy, and the form is detailed so have the resume ready and know what you want before you begin. They offer a satisfaction guarantee with either a refund or a redistribution of your resume if you are not happy. Targets the UK, including Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and please do not purchase their services unless you are eligible for employment in this region.
- ExecutiveTrumpet
- ...a resume distribution service for the executive who wishes to get his or her resume in the hands of those recruiters and search firms working in his/her targeted industry and job area across the US and Canada. The recruiters/search firms have registered with the service, so your resume should only be going to folks who really want to read it. They offer 2 different distribution packages and a money-back guarantee.
- Forward Your Resume
- Reviews the resume distribution services, comparing features, costs, and more to help you make a somewhat informed decision.
- GadBall
- Since I am not really a fan of services of this type, I will quote the information provided by this service rather than give you my opinion. "GadBall is a free service to job seekers brought to you by Data Frenzy [...] This site utilizes the advanced technologies, Job Board Partnerships and Employer relationships of Data Frenzy to provide a comprehensive free resume distribution site. GadBall allows you to easily create/upload your resume and select the Job Boards where you want your resume posted. Each Job Board Partner on GadBall has been evaluated to determine the effectiveness of the site. GadBall will only display to you relevant Job Boards based on the ability of the Job Board to connect people with your skills and experience to Employers who are hiring, and again – you make the selection of which Job Boards receive your resume. You maintain complete control over your resume: edits to your resume on GadBall are immediately sent to all Job Boards where your resume was posted; when your Job Search is complete, inactivate your resume on GadBall, and a delete command is sent to all Job Boards where your resume was posted. The GadBall Free Resume Distribution service protects you. Your resume is submitted to all Job Boards with your own GadBall.com email address. You will view all inquiries from Employers and Job Boards in your GadBall email account; your personal email address is never transmitted to a public Job Board or shared with prospective Employers. You control what they see and how they contact you. We track every email in your GadBall account. We know from which resume posting site each inquiry originates, and we provide a link at the top of each email message to automatically log you into your personal account on the Job Board." GadBall offers many features of social networking sites, including the right to display your personal profile to others on the system. In addition, GadBall offers a job search database, career videos, interviewing advice, and salary data. You can access a large amount of the site's services as a guest, but you will need to register (free) and create a resume in order to utilize their best services. As always, I urge you to exercise restraint in posting your resume online so as not to appear to be spamming the world.
- Resumeblaster.com
- For a fee, your plain text resume is sent via email to a list of subscribing recruiters, the number and specifics of whom you can select depending on the service you choose.
- ResumePostOffice
- "ResumePostOffice is a resume distribution service that automatically sends your resume to multiple recruiters in multiple industries and also distributes your resume to the top thirty career sites on the web[...]." Yes, there is a fee for this service (the amount varies by what services you wish to purchase), but you can also see how many employers / recruiters they have for each industry before you buy (might not be worth it is nothing fits your search).
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Lists of Resume Databases and Services
These sites maintain lists of databases where you can post your resume.- Resume Resources from Yahoo!
- Job Banks & Recruiters -- yes, almost every job site in this guide includes a resume database, so find the sites that match your job and career preferences and considering posting a resume.
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