These people, according to the blasting services, represent the job market and want to know about you. However, the real sentence is should read that they will want to know about you at just this magic moment when you decide to send your resume.
How likely do you think that is?
In my 35 years in the search business, I have never once received a resume at was useful to me through a blasting service.
Not once.
I have received resumes from refrigeration specialists, chicken feather pluckers and a host of other skills I have never once sought in the course of a search.
Why do people spend $50 to $375 for such a useless service?
I understand that people are afraid of not finding work; that they are sometimes pressured by friend and family directly (So, what did you do today to find work, you lazy oaf) to indirectly, “How’s the search coming). I understand that you may feel like you’re doing something . . . but you aren’t doing anything positive. What you are doing is annoying a bunch of people who you want to help you, who are hitting the delete key, instead of reading your resume because we recognize the spammer’s formatting (yes, you are a spammer when you use these services, and you are wasting many an innocent victim’s time who don’t deserve to have it wasted (Remember, many of us are sales people for whom time IS money).
So, please don’t use a service to blast your resume. All you are doing is helping to waste my time and keep me from helping people I can.
Jeff Altman , The Big Game Hunter
jeffaltman@cisny.com
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm,. He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff since 1971. He is also a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
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