December 12, 2024

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Your Resume Lives On After You’ve Gotten the Job!

Your Resume Lives On After You’ve Gotten the Job!

It is very easy to think that, when you have sent out hundreds of resumes, those resumes disappear into thin air. However, if you post your resume online or email it in response to a job ad, your resume usually gets stored in a database. This database could be a job aggregator like Career Builder, or it could be an applicant tracking system for a company or staffing agency. Just because you do not get a response to your job application, it does not mean that nothing is done with your resume. The fact is that your resume is usually taken and stored for a very long time.

What this means is that you want to be careful who gets access to your resume and the information on it. Many people eagerly post their resumes on a job aggregator only to be contacted for jobs they do not want, such as franchise opportunities or life insurances sales or other jobs that require you to put thousands of dollars down to get started. One thing that smart job seekers do is to create an email separate from your personal ones for just this purpose, that way your personal email won’t be bombarded with annoying spam mail. If the company is interested in you, they will email you. However, be sure that you regularly check both your email inbox and spam for messages from potential employers.You can even blacklist those spam email messages that do come through to that account, to block most of the unwanted junk.

Putting your resume on LinkedIn is also another way for your resume to ‘live on’. As LinkedIn can be used as an online version of your resume, it will still be working for you even when you aren’t in an active job search (as long as you keep up with your profile and don’t ignore it). So, remember to always keep your LinkedIn resume up to date with all of the current information, skills and job positions.

It’s important to remember that once your resume is ‘out there’ in cyberspace either on a job board or LinkedIn, it will stay there until you remove it. Make sure that you are very aware of this when putting your resume out there. You want to make sure that you are only using websites that are highly accredited and won’t “sell” or “loan” your personal information to 3rd parties. Be strategic about where you put your resume and you will have better results.