Another job board joined the “Socially Responsible Recruiting” ranks and have killed resume searches.
My friend Steven Rothberg, president of CollegeRecruiter.com, recently stopped allowing resume database access. Great decision Steven!! ERE even did a nice story on the decision.
Most know that Recruiting Nevada put a policy in place against resume search back in 1996 when the Internet was just getting started. It was just a gut decision but, but one that I do not regret making now. As publishers, we should not own the jobseeker’s information. Media outlets should simply be an advertising tool to introduce jobseekers to employers. And only if a jobseeker ‘opts in’ and expresses interest to an employer, should their information (or resume) be shared.
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Your act was a great one to follow. Thank you for the kind words Doug. We thought a lot about Recruiting Nevada and the decision that you made long ago not to offer resume searching when we were weighing the decision over the past months.
I am confident that we made the right decision to eliminate resume searching and join Recruiting Nevada and a small but growing number of major boards in not offering resume searching. There is no doubt that it benefits some candidates and some employers, but I have come to understand that it does far more harm to both groups than it does good. The pros, if you will, are micro while the cons are macro.