When it comes to job hunting, there's a real push to launch resumes into cyberspace. Everyone, it seems, is tacking them on job boards, dropping them into employers' online HR bins, and submitting them to huge search databases that promise to match IT skills with the perfect opportunity. But for all the good that the Web has contributed to the techie's employment effort, there's a serious dark side as well. Loss of privacy and the inappropriate distribution of online resumes are two ever-increasing concerns.
Studies show that they're the main culprits keeping female candidates from using the Web.
Looking for a job while employed is obviously something you want to keep secret. Posting resumes online, especially in the early days of job boards, was tantamount to tacking them on telephone poles along major highways in several countries. While these resumes get lots of eyeballs, other interested parties are eager to grab your employment history as well. There are few security measures to protect against theft. Resumes are commonly hijacked by unethical recruiters, staffing firms, competing job boards, and other sites extracting IT data and candidate names for databases.