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by road-dog

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In the last few days, a contributor raised the issue of body shops submitting their resume and even editing it without their permission.

What immediately comes to mind is copyrighting the resume. Is this common?

An immediate downside is the appearance of arrogance, having a copyright statement at the bottom. A potential employer might discard on that alone.

The upside is having a legal recourse when headhunters abuse your resume. This would cover those instances where these guys pullyour resume off a job board and slam it around indiscriminantly.

I really feel that if they can't make a buck off the deal, they would just as soon you don't either.

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by lance.gillis

Hi Road Dog, People can avoid the problems through fear control. Target the opportunities you are interested in and avoid the "shotgun approach" of throwing a resume at anything that moves or posting it where everyone has access to it. A thoughtful, targeted approach to landing a job will give better results. Recruiters? Use them when YOU call them. Stay in control. There are a lot of good tactics to job finding, splashing a resume all over hell's half acre isn't one of them. Good luck to all.

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