Your employees love you. Except when they don’t.
Like when you're trolling through a Monster or CareerBuilder resume database and there they freaking
are. They've posted their resume!! The gall! The nerve!
What's up with that? What should you do? Confront now? Take two weeks off and quit?
A younger me would have said confront them all. Man, would I have been wrong. Good things weren't nearly as digital when I was coming up and trying to be the Clint Eastwood of HR.
The old me broke this one down at Workforce in a recent column. Is the resume poster a Free Agent, Reactionary, Disgrunted or Forgetful Analog? The profile drives whether you confront, poke around quietly or do nothing. Check out the article to get a vibe for the profiles and which once I would confront.
PS - Hey Monster, if you want to carve a little revenue out of the candidate side, offer up a $5 per month service to keep the resume of the employee masked to their current employer. If you pitch it right, that ought to let you squeeze another 100K a month out of the Matrix easy....
I think career builder is more helpful, at least thier resources....i really like this National Gruntled index that helped me see the happiest/least happiest careers: http://www.careerbuilder.com/ngi/Default.aspx?cbRecursionCnt=2&cbsid=a5c107dd0a9a42b0bc7ebc0958fe180f-259397635-KA-5&ns_siteid=ns_us_g_ngi_career_builder
Posted by: JR | March 21, 2008 at 06:10 AM
I work in HR and I make my resume visible from time to time on Monster. I feel like I owe it to myself to see what is out there. I have even talked with some employers and told them up front where I stand, and they decide whether or not they want to meet with me. So far, my conversations and meetings have only made me appreciate my current situation more.
Posted by: Shane | March 21, 2008 at 02:14 PM
The Post and Pray!
Posted by: Chris Young | March 22, 2008 at 09:17 PM