Now that you’ve mastered the e-mail resume, you’re ready to take advantage of one of the handiest developments since employment centers discovered the 3 × 5 card and push pin: online resume banks. By posting your resume in an online database, your qualifications can be seen by thousands of employers and headhunters–think of the potential that holds! In this chapter, you’ll learn how to find online resume banks, how to post your resume on one, and how to steer clear of pitfalls.
Resumes in a Bank?
Online resume banks appear on job search Web sites. They’re sort of like regular banks, only resume banks deal in their own currency: resumes. Job seekers deposit (upload) their resumes into online databases, and employers withdraw (download) them from the databases
Who Pays the Bill
Make no mistakes about it, there’s money being saved and earned through recruitment Web sites. most of the commercial resume-bank Web sites offer their services free to job seekers and charge employers and headhunters to access the resumes in their databases. A few sites charge the job seeker and give free access to employers and recruiters. Still others charge all parties involved. Then again, there are nonprofit and government employment sites that are free to job seekers and employers.
Let’s look at why employers and recruiters like using online resume banking to find job applicants.
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