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Should You Include Your Name on Resumes Posted to Job Boards?

Gretchen, Microsoft Recruiter and blogger, suggests that you include your name on resumes posted on job boards, but as a consultant, I’ve always told people not to do that.

I always suggest that people remove their name address, and phone number on a resume that is open to the public, and replace them with an email address created just for that resume.  This way you know that any contact via that email address is from people outside your personal network (you are keeping your personal network active especially when you are not looking for a job, right?)

The reason is not to hide from your employer, but from very unethical recruiting and consulting firms.  These firms will submit your resume to potential clients without your approval, and will contact you only after the client is interested.  In the meantime, you may have already submitted your resume to the client directly (or thru another party) and now your resume had been submitted twice.  Most clients I know will not look at resumes that are submitted twice, just because they don't want to get involved with the hassle of figuring out who submitted the resume first (and all the legal issues associated with that).

I know it is a pain to the corporate recruiter, but there are lots of folks out there that ruin it for everyone.

Published Friday, February 04, 2005 2:12 PM by donxml
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About donxml

I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.
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