By Reed Karaim As Craig Brown sees it, the best and worst thing about posting your name and resume online is how widely it advertises your availability. Like a lot of job seekers, Brown weighs the loss of privacy against the benefit of disclosing complete contact information. A successful consultant who lives outside of Philadelphia, Brown specializes in database administration, design, and modeling. He has posted his resume, with complete contact information, on 10 different job sites. He receives up to 60 calls a day from people inquiring about his services, something he attributes to his full disclosure on Web sites.
Visibility can be a pain.
He's gotten every kind of spam. He's even discovered companies using his resume to help win contracts when they haven't even contacted him. If you might lose your job, or face a tough time at work, because your employer discovered you were looking, then it only makes sense to protect yourself. The question is whether your resume will still be effective if you don't reveal your identity. They may lose out to their competition.