Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes? 229
powderhound asks: "Recently, my employer started looking for new employees and started to find the resumes of current employees on the job Web sites. I've heard that management was not pleased. In the old days, before Web job sites, you could job hunt with relative certainty that your current employer would not find out until you gave notice. Now, any employer wishing to check on their employee's desire to find a new job need only sign up on the job Web sites and start trolling. How do we, as employees looking to change jobs, protect ourselves from possible discovery, and even worse, retribution? What have you done to protect yourself? Do you think employers are trolling job sites for their own employees?"
no name? (Score:5, Informative)
According to an Employment Advocate I know... (Score:4, Informative)
On Posting Resumes to a Website (Score:3, Informative)
1. Collect resumes posted to the Web on common job sites.
2. Submit them to employers with their contact information replacing yours.
3. Not tell you about it unless they get a bite.
4. Contact you about the job if they do get a bite, but not tell you any of the above.
Personally, I don't like the idea of any old person having access to my resume. It's too much information to give out anonymously. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a "passive" way to get a job. You have to go through the work of contacting people, by mail or Email yourself, rather that tossing your resume out there and hoping for a bite. This isn't the 90's after all, the job market sucks. (Sigh... I remember companies giving away Palms just for accepting an interview. Oh well, I made out pretty well myself, until the crash...)
Use privacy options (Score:5, Informative)
So how do future employers contact you? They use the contact job seeker option on the website, such as Dice.com, and Dice would then forward the email to you. It is then up to you unveil your identity when replying back to the employer.
What you can do to further your privacy is use a new email address that doesn't have your name in it to inquire more about the job opportunity.
Good luck!
right to work (Score:2, Informative)
i do know that in AZ, which is a right to work state (but like i said i don't think the issues are connected) an employer can terminate someone for pretty much any reason (outside discrimination or something else illegal) but they have to pay part of the persons unemployment unless they can prove that person was fired for some good reason.
Re:The Real Problem (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Easy. (Score:4, Informative)
Today's word is "Trawling" (Score:3, Informative)
If your boss wants to troll job websites then let him/her; s/he will eventually get banned and then you can post your CV without trouble.
TWW
Re:Today's word is "Trawling" (Score:1, Informative)
Trawling and trolling are both fishing terms. Trawling involves dragging a net through the water to catch fish. Trolling involves dragging baited lines through the water to catch fish.
Both terms are used by analogy outside of fishing. "Trolling" applies where some bait is used, e.g. your example of trolling for responses in an internet discussion or for purposes of this article, if the employer was posting enticing offers to "catch" the employees looking for other jobs. "Trawling" applies where you are sifting for your objective without using bait.
In this case, the employer was probably merely sifting through the resumes without doing anything to attract emplyees to him, so "trawling" is more appropriate than "trolling", but to miss the origin of both terms in fishing is to miss the shading of meaning between the two terms.
Weed-out bad recruiters (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The Real Problem (Score:3, Informative)
Unless you have a contract that states otherwise, it's completely legal. They can fire you for sticking your tongue out at someone. Or for driving the wrong kind of car to work. Or for performing in drag on weekends. "At will" employment means they can fire you for any reason that isn't explicitly prohibited by law. In most jurisdictions, this is limited to race, gender, religion, non-disqualifying handicap, age, and perhaps a handful of other characteristics.
The flip side of the coin is that you can quit "at will": because the boss stuck his tongue out at someone, drives the wrong kind of car, performs in drag on weekends, .... Whether this is true equity or not (i.e. giving equal power to both parties) is subject to debate, but that's how U.S. labor law treats it.