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Privacy Tips for Jobseekers Who Post Their Resume Online

By Roger Lear

If you are like thousands of other Central Florida candidates looking for Orlando jobs, you have posted your resume on online sites (like OrlandoJobs.com) so potential employers can access your background and present job openings that match. Seems pretty simple! However, do you know what that site is doing to protect your privacy?

In the past couple of weeks, candidates that registered with Monster.com (read article) had resume information stolen by some "Trojan" software. While this is a major issue with any online services you use (banking, shopping, etc.), you do have an opportunity to protect you privacy. Here are some of our suggestions when dealing with online employment sites:

1) Make sure the site has a Privacy Policy. You must read this statement and agree with the terms. If you don’t, don’t post your resume! If the site doesn’t have a privacy statement, do not post your resume unless you don’t already get enough spam email. Make sure in the privacy statement that YOU have control of your information.

2) I suggest using a new email address for every employment website that you post your resume on. That way you can identify any bogus emails sent to that address. If the job site you posted your resume to follows their privacy policy, you should not get any other emails except from the site a employers. (Make sure you keep the email address professional)

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