Resume Distribution Services: Should You Use Them?
By Carl Mueller
Resume distribution services have popped
up over the past few years and some job searchers
have asked me about whether or not they are
worth using.
Essentially, you pay the company a fee and
they will send your resume to hundreds if
not thousands of employers and recruiters.
The idea is that they put your resume in front
of numerous people who may be interested in
speaking with you regarding employment.
The apparent benefit to you is that
it would take far too long for you to
blast your resume out to thousands of
people and that a resume distribution
service can do it far quicker than you
could.
Is a resume distribution service worth
using?
Let’s put it this way: if you believe
in the old adage that if you throw enough
you-know-what against a wall, something
is bound to stick... then perhaps using
a resume distribution service makes sense
to you.
That’s basically what this sort of service
does.
The underlying principle seems to be
that if you float your resume past enough
people, someone is bound to want to hire
you!
If you were looking for a date, would
you email everyone in your email contacts
list asking them if they know anyone you
could go out with?
That would smack of desperation, wouldn’t
it?
Probably wouldn’t work either.
Using a resume distribution service might
sound like something that makes sense
in theory but if you think about it, it’s
basically just a form of legal spamming.
They email your resume to a group of
people you don’t know and who don’t know
you and the idea that they will spend
time to read over each resume they receive
hoping to find a good one is unrealistic.
As a recruiter, whenever I receive a
resume from someone that I know has been
emailed to numerous other recruiters,
I usually glance at the resume quickly
and then delete it.
If a resume has been sent to hundreds
or thousands of other people, why would
I bother trying to help this person with
their job search when I’d be competing
with all the other people who also have
their resume?
A recruiter who largely relies on resume
distribution services to find job candidates
is probably not a very good recruiter.
And an employer who relies on such a service
to find staff is probably looking for
staff on a regular basis and is really
just looking for warm bodies to fill some
seats.
Your resume has value. By allowing a
company to send it off to thousands of
people generically, you simply reduce
the value of your resume by using a method
that will most likely yield low results.
A targeted job search that uses your
resume for specific job opportunities
that ideally gets sent to a specific person
is your best long-term plan.
Carl Mueller is an Internet entrepreneur
and professional recruiter who wants to
help you find your dream career.
Visit Carl's website to separate yourself
from other job searchers: http://www.find-your-dream-career.com
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