That will grow more popular as search engines get more sophisticated, letting companies find resumes in personal Web sites all over the world. Source Digital went looking for someone with video-editing skills and found him through the Web site resume of Louis Lau, a May graduate of Hofstra. UCLA is teaching low-income job hunters to use the Internet at churches, community centers and libraries. Applicants looking for hotel housekeeping work can get on Marriott's resume database just by calling an 800-number and answering questions by pushing buttons. Researchers will soon marry the Internet with TV, bringing every couch potato's resume to the Web.
Privacy is a roadblock.
But software authors have figured out how to block companies from reading the resumes of their own employees. And job seekers can post resumes anonymously and respond to queries only if they want to, says Robert Pothier, CEO of Quest Employee Locator. The privacy issue will be solved. In the end, companies probably won't consider retaliating - not when everyone in the office has a resume in cyberspace.