Re: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea

[yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

So long as the resume remains within the company that's fine. But I've
known of people who applied for one job, and then applied for another and
discovered that their resume was already sent in often. Often as a result
of switching employment agencies. The agency would send in the applicants'
resumed without their knowledge or consent, and this would screw them over
because the hiring company would rather move on to the next applicant
rather than try and figure out which agency was genuinely representing the
job candidate.

Yehoshua
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> It's not all that unusual for managers to circulate copies of applicants'
> resumes to subordinates  for input, or to assign subordinates to screen
> resumes.  One of the potential pitfalls of having "fun" with your resume is
> that you can never really be sure how many people are going to review it.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
>
> > Yeah. So much for the expectation of confidentiality in job
> > applications. I was shown a handful of "best examples" of the worst in
> > my early days as a junior writer.
> >
>
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