Monster Burglary (response)

Wow…. my post on Monster Burglary stirred up some debate.  I received several responses about my comment that the Monster has been burglarized for years.  Questions and comments included:

• How can that be? 
• What does that mean? 
• Should I be concerned? 
• I bought that access, fair and square.
• I’m not a thief - I’m doing my job.
• How do I eliminate that problem?

Maybe I was being a little sarcastic.  It may not be ‘true’ burglary, but it appears to be in my eyes.  You can read more about my viewpoint in the post Stealing from the Monster.  I dig further into the processes used by recruiters to fish resumes in another post - Fishing for Resumes.  Resume fishing can be done from any job board that sells resume database access (note:  Recruiting Nevada does not offer resume database access).  Again - read Fishing for Resumes.

That is why I caution all of my clients about posting on job boards that aggressively sell resume database access.  Here is the reasoning:

• You are a great employer that offers great jobs.
• Great candidates with your specific needs see your great jobs.
• In order for them to apply, they must upload their resume.
• Most do not know to make their resume confidential
• A savvy recruiter down the street has resume database search access
• That savvy recruiter wrote a sophisticated search algorithm to find resumes with the same skill sets as what you are looking for in the great job you posted. Most recruiters actually manage multiple agents.
• That resume search agent runs daily.
• As soon as that great candidate applies, the savvy recruiters are notified.
• Your “applicants” now become their “prospects.

If that recruiter spends a lot of time on that particular job board (as most do) they know ‘who to sell and who not to sell that candidate to.’ (even though we have all witnessed the contingent recruiter trying to sell a company their own applicants).   If it is an internal recruiter for a competitor of yours, your valuable advertising dollars just exposed a great candidate for them.

I hope this clarifies my comments.  I’m sure I have offended some folks out there, but they are the same folks fishing resumes.  Oh well.

PS - In terms of eliminating the problem - my suggestion is to purchase a good Applicant Tracking System and require the jobseeker to apply through it rather than the standard application process offered on these job boards.  If you are not able to do that - consider e-mail direct response or an upload of a resume on your corporate website.