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The Best Resume Posting Services Reviewed

Resume Posting Services
Job Seeker Benefit
Employer & Recruiter Reach	5,000,000
How Long Before Results Occur	One Day to One Week
How Long Do Results Last	Several Months to One Year
Job Seeker Methods Involved	Connecting, Prospecting, Recruiting
Do It Yourself Time & Effort	3 to 5 Hours; $0
Paid Service Time & Effort	5 Minutes; $60
Return on Investment (ROI)

Posting your resume to as many career sites as you can is a guaranteed way for you to have employers and recruiters finding and contacting you.

This review covers two Internet services and a free option for posting your resume yourself.

We are so sure that this is a great way to get qualified job leads delivered to you that we provide you with everything you need to post your resume yourself, free.

The free Quick 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.

If you are looking to pay for a resume posting service, the best overall resume posting service is Resume Rabbit. Read the detailed review below.

Overview

Last Updated March, 2007 - It can be confusing how to pick a resume posting service since there are several categories that compete with one another. Here's a brief overview of the various methods along with a rating for how effective they are for helping you land a job:

• Post Your Resume to Career Sites - (Reviewed in This Article) There are 100 or so career sites that are worthwhile to post your resume to. Most job seekers post to one or two of them and never see the huge benefit of scale when posting to a dozen or even 100 sites.
• Email Your Resume to Recruiters - There are tens-of-thousands of recruiters who connect job seekers with hiring managers. Recruiters have a special relationships with hiring mangers that can take years to acquire. In the short timeframe that you are looking for work, it's a great idea to work with several well connected recruiters.
• Fax Your Resume to Companies - A gray area between solicited and unsolicited contact. This is an effective method of getting interviews, however, use a service that offers a guarantee of interviews, and you might want to reserve this option for later in your job search, if you still need to use it.
• Email or Mail Your Resume to Companies - : Most companies will accept your unsolicited resume, but be careful here. If you send your resume to a company, you automatically loose the benefit of working with a recruiter who may have valuable contact within a company. Recruiters get paid for introducing unknown candidates to companies. Even though your resume might on 'file' with the company, more times than not, this will not mean that you will get connected with the right resources.

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. The reason for this is that over 80% of employers search for candidates using one or more third party resume databanks. In fact, many employers will not advertise open jobs until they've searched the resume databanks and have not found suitable candidates.

Testing Criteria & Results - We posted a mid-manager marketing resume with a geographic expectation for the Seattle metro area, a mid-sized US city. We collected detailed stats for one month and more general stats for 3 additional months. Here are our results:

Month 1 contacts included 17 recruiters representing various positions for employers in the Seattle metro area, and 12 companies, 10 of them in the Seattle area, and two of them from Portland, Oregon.

Months 2 to 4 included 16 additional recruiters, and 17 companies, 15 of the companies were from the Seattle metro area, 1 of them was from Olympia, Washington, and 1 was from Portland, Oregon.

We get emails almost every week telling us about similar results. Results vary widely though because the size of the geographical area that are willing to work in, the type of job you are looking for.

But one stat remains the same throughout, it doesn't matter if you are a college grad or a senior executive, this method works, and will bring in the job offers. it won't matter dramatically which service you use as your resume will get posted to large number of career sites, and the is the most important thing.

Resume Rabbit

Resume Rabbit Score	Rating
Effectiveness of Service
Site Navigation & Ease of Use
Setup & Delivery Speed
Number of Resume Databanks
Diversity of Industries
Price
Anonymity Features
Customer Service
Overall Rating
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
Price
Anonymity Features
Customer Service
Overall Rating
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.

Do It Yourself

Do It Yourself Score	Rating
Effectiveness of Service
Site Ease of Use	N/A
Setup & Delivery Speed
# of Resume Databanks
Diversity of Industries
Price
Anonymity Features
Overall Rating
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 Quick 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

 

A Work 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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