Watch those folks at Junglee . Yesterday's article raised some dust and a lot of questions, some for us, some for you. As we thought about it, the idea of marketing a job board by stuffing other resume databases is really quite brilliant. It's not because it's likely to work. Rather, the tactic exposes an underlying weakness we really hadn't seen before.
Resume checking is a very limited subset.
We don't know of a job board that offers a database of resumes that have been verified in any meaningful way. In today's online recruiting environment, resume quality is a secondary issue left to customers. The notion underscores our need to move into a more proactive stance. It's a mouthful that means that the current crop of ideas about the web tend to break down after they reach a certain size. Early adopters gain a great advantage while those who are more conservative decision makers receive a reduced stream of benefits.