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Resume Posting Overview
Job Seeker Benefit
Employer Reach	5,000,000
Do It Yourself Time & Effort	3 to 5 Hours; $0
Paid Service Time & Effort	5 Minutes; $60
Return on Your Time & Effort
Results Occur In	1 day to 1 Week
Results Last	3 months 1 Year
Return on Investment (ROI)

Posting your resume on 10+ great career sites will guarantee that employers will call you within one week.

Stop at just 1 career site and you miss out on one of the best trends for landing a job in today's market.

Posting your resume to career sites is 10x more effective than submitting your resume to advertised jobs. In other words, you'd have to submit your resume to 1,000 open jobs to get the same benefit as posting your resume to 10+ career sites. That's right, 1,000 advertised jobs.

We've done the research for you, so you can post your resume using the a free version or a paid version. If you are looking to shorten your time that you are on the job market, there is there is no reason that you should pass on this opportunity.

The fast, free resume posting version includes a dozen career sites, takes about 30 minutes, and gets you exposure to 2,500,000 employers and recruiters.

The full, free resume posting version includes up to 100 career sites, can take 3 to 5 hours, but will net you exposure to more than 5,000,000 employers and recruiters.

The paid resume posting version is basically the same as the full, free version, will take 5 minutes, net you almost identical results to the full free version, and cost you about $60.

Overview

Hiring managers hate to advertise jobs because it is the worst way to find qualified candidates. For hiring managers, advertising open positions means that you have to slog through hundreds, even thousands of resume to find just a few qualified candidates. That's right, each advertised job is responded to with an average of 600 resumes. Many of the resumes are just spammed by job seekers looking for an easier way to find work.

Hiring managers would rather find candidates by:

1. Networking with colleagues inside and outside of their company
2. Networking with friends and family
3. Hiring a recruiter
4. Searching resume databanks

In fact 80% of hiring mangers will use the four methods above before advertising an open position. Even then, as many as 70% of all jobs go unadvertised.

If you are not putting your resume where hiring managers and recruiters will find it, you are conducting an inefficient job search that will keep you on the market far longer than you have to be.

Leveraging the power and reach of the Internet to mass market your skills and availability for work is a smart way to be where employers and recruiters will find you.

You can find four method of mass marketing your resume:

• Post Your Resume to Career Sites -
• Email Your Resume to Recruiters -
• Fax Your Resume to Companies -
• Email or Mail Your Resume to Companies -

By far, the most effective method for getting employers and recruiters to find and to contact you is to post your resume to career sites. Career sites offer advanced searching and filtering software to match candidates with open positions. It is easier, faster, more effective, and cheaper to find qualified candidates using defined searching methods rather than slogging through a pile of mostly spammed resumes.

The rest of this article reviews the various options for posting your resume to career sites. We provide you two methods for posting your resume yourself. We've reviewed two paid services that will post your resume for you. And finally, we talk about privacy issues.

Please contact us if you have questions, or consider telling somebody who is looking for work.

Do It Yourself

Do It Yourself	Rating
Effectiveness of Service
Site Ease of Use	N/A
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Status Report on Emails Sent	Individual  E-Mails

We provide a list of all the worthwhile career sites that you might want to post your resume to. The research side of this project is already done for your. The biggest drawback to posting your own resume is that it is fairly time consuming and tedious. The options you have to get around this are:

• The free Fast Posting version includes a dozen career sites, takes 30 minutes and gets you exposure to 2,500,000 employers and recruiters.

• The free Full Posting version includes up to 100 career sites, can take 3 to 5 hours, but will net you exposure to more than 5,000,000 employers and recruiters

You will get about half the exposure (2,500,000 employers and recruiters), but posting will take only 30 minutes or so, depending upon how fast on the keyboard you are.

If you have the time and are inclined to post your resume to all of the resume posting services, we highly recommend it. Posting your resume is straightforward and easy. If you are concerned about privacy issues, consider getting an email address specifically for this project.

Pros:

1. Free
2. Same exposure plus a bit more than the paid services
3. Fills in the few holes that are not covered by either Resume Rabbit or Employment911
4. Control over the process

Cons:

1. Filling out forms is time consuming and tedious
2. Full benefit of scale means posting to almost 100 career sites

Resume Rabbit

Resume Rabbit	Rating
Effectiveness of Service
Site Navigation & Ease of Use
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Status Report on Emails Sent	Yes

By contrast to Employment911 (see review below), Resume Rabbit's only business is to post resumes to career sites. They've been in business since 1999 and have refined their offering to be the best paid-for-service available.

Recently updated, the Resume Rabbit web site is simple and to the point. With only one business to promote, they've arranged the information you need in a logical and straightforward manner.

Sign up is easy and the company accepts almost all forms of payment. Once you have input your resume, chosen your career sites, and hit the submit button, the whole process takes less than ten minutes to accomplish.

Pros:

1. Very Professional
2. Great customer service
3. Technologically refined and advanced service
4. Easy to use sign up and straight forward user experience.
5. Great anonymity features (if needed),
6. Submission reporting for each career site includes your login and password
7. Good number of resume databanks to post to.

Cons:

1. They could provide a few more categories such as Healthcare or Executive resume posting. If you are looking to post your resume to popular healthcare boards or executive job boards, you can visit our free listing of career sites and post your resume by hand.

Overall Recommendation:

If you have the budget to afford automatic resume posting (about $60.00), Resume Rabbit is the hands down winner. It takes five minutes to setup and get your resume posted to all the career sites that you pick. It takes another five minutes to get your report back. If you are looking for an alternative to paid service, you can accomplish the same result by posting your resume by hand.

See the review below for the Do It Yourself (DYI) option. We've done the research for you and provided links to all the top resume databanks on the Internet. In addition we have put together specialized categories for Executives, Healthcare, Accounting, Technology, Diversity.

Employment911

Employment911	Rating
Effectiveness of Service
Site Navigation & Ease of Use
Setup & Delivery Speed
Number of Resume Databanks
Diversity of Industries
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Status Report on Emails Sent	Yes

Employment911 offers many different employment services including professional resume writing, job search, work from home resources, resume blasting to recruiters, and finally resume posting to career sites. Wrapped in a garish site design that harkens back to the late 1990's, the site lacks detailed information about their resume posting service. A listing of the sites they post to is several clicks away. They seem so anxious to get the sales that they expect users to signup in order to find out more about their service. Customer services is absolutely nonexistent. The offer two different forms, for some reason, one available from the top menu, and the other available from the bottom menu. Neither of the forms seems to deliver a message to a real human being. After 3 days of waiting I gave up. Equally fruitless was looking for their phone number which took me five minutes to find. Calling the number 3 times and leaving messages, I didn't get a response back. The phone message points customers to a web site, but once there, the site is strictly for members or those who have bought Employment911 services. . At the end of voice mail, your given an opportunity to leave a message. After two messages and 3 days, I am still waiting to hear back from 'customer service'.

It's impossible to recommend Employment911. Before even trying their service, the lack of concrete information about what the service offers, the absence of customer service, the hiding of phone numbers, and the 'not in the office' email response is just unacceptable. And if you thought you could find information using their site map, it's the most bizarre site map I've ever seen. All of this adds up to a shear lack of confidence in their service.

Pros:

1. The service works, but there is little reason to use this when Resume Rabbit does such a professional job.

Cons:

1. More than six sites listed as places a resume would be posted, do not actually as resume databanks are either not accepting resume submissions, have changed names or are out of business.
2. No customer service, live or otherwise. No one answers emails or returns phone calls
3. Feature list is short. Better off posting your resumes by hand as the service doesn't inspire confidence.

Overall Recommendation:

You are better off spending your time posting your resume by hand. See the Do It Yourself (DYI) review. If you have the budget to have a service post your resume automatically to 80 of the top career sites that offer resume submissions, there is no comparison, Resume Rabbit is the resounding winner in this category.

About Privacy Issues and Posting Your Resume

Some job seekers are concerned about various privacy issues about posting their resume to resume databanks. To begin with there are a few precautions you can take to minimize or eliminate potential dangers.

• Never put your social security or drivers license number on your resume
• Never post your current or expected salary on your resume
• Never put personal details like age or weight on your resume,a nd don't family details such as your marriage status or number of children on your resume

Career sites charge employers and recruiters money to search their database of resumes, and so it is quite rare that you will get offers or enquires that are not related to your job search.

Lastly, some job seekers are worried that their current employer will find their resume online and suspect them of looking for a new jobs.

First of all, it is quite unlikely that your current employer will come across your resume online, but even if they do, a resume posted on the Internet is not a sign of disloyalty, in fact, most hiring managers, expect that their employees keep their options open. In today's marketplace, downsizing, resizing, shifting priorities keep everyone on their toes, and it is much better to be prepared and have a current resume not only handy but in the system.

Some candidates try to make it hard to identify themselves, by using a nick name and not posting the name of their current employer. These method are not really necessary.

Others go as far as eliminating their name altogether and posting only an email address and a method for contact. Now this will cut your chances of getting contacted by 80% or more. You simply won't get very many calls.

If you have real issues about keeping yourself anonymous, posting your resume online is probably not a method that will work for you. If you eliminate all identifying aspects about yourself, your response will be so poor, in the end, you will be better off not utilizing this method. An option to consider would be to utilize sending your resume only to recruiters whose professional obligation is to not share your resume with anyone unless they have your permission.

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