Employers monitoring job searches

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I was surprised to overhear a manager where I work asking an employee why his resume was active on the job sites.

How do they know?

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How do they know?

It would be fathomable that the mangers and such are on the same site looking for employees? Or maybe they're keeping an eye on those sites for the less-faithful, aka the first to be laid off.

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Lots of employers have internet monitoring solutions in place to track employee internet usage that will report on every site that an employee visits. From there its just a list of sites that makes it easy to figure out what the person is doing online and how much company time they are wasting online.

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Lots of employers have internet monitoring solutions in place to track employee internet usage that will report on every site that an employee visits. From there its just a list of sites that makes it easy to figure out what the person is doing online and how much company time they are wasting online.

Yeah, which is why I've always thought it's risky/nutz for someone to do their job searches on their work computers. Jeez, do it at home.

Having said that, it's always possible that if you post your resume on, say, a site like CareerBuilder, or even a more industry-specific site, it could get noticed by your employers. Especially the twats in HR; they don't have any real work to do.

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Not on their work computers. These folks don't use work computers.

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I was surprised to overhear a manager where I work asking an employee why his resume was active on the job sites.

How do they know?

Anyone check if the manager has his resume on the job sites Maybe thats how he found his employees resume

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Lots of employers have internet monitoring solutions in place to track employee internet usage that will report on every site that an employee visits. From there its just a list of sites that makes it easy to figure out what the person is doing online and how much company time they are wasting online.

And that's pretty much the only way they'd know too.

Once a resume goes into any of the major job search sites the chances of any HUMAN actually seeing it are roughly what you get playing the lottery. They are ALL filtered by software and out of the thousands of applications received for each job are whittled down to maybe 10 that somebody in the HR department of the company that posted the job would see.

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Lots of employers have internet monitoring solutions in place to track employee internet usage that will report on every site that an employee visits. From there its just a list of sites that makes it easy to figure out what the person is doing online and how much company time they are wasting online.

And that's pretty much the only way they'd know too.

Once a resume goes into any of the major job search sites the chances of any HUMAN actually seeing it are roughly what you get playing the lottery. They are ALL filtered by software and out of the thousands of applications received for each job are whittled down to maybe 10 that somebody in the HR department of the company that posted the job would see.

Hardly - you do a search in San Francisco for a system engineer who works with solaris, weblogic, java because you might want a new person in your group, and you're quite likely to see your current people if their resume is online. It's all about the keywords. If you're looking for a generic office worker, you might be right, but specialized roles have fewer suitables.

The answer to the manager who asks such a question is that the resume is always active - as employers no longer guarantee there will be a job tomorrow, employees have to act accordingly and always be open to discussion with a new one. Doesn't mean they'll take it, but if you wait till you're laid off to look around, it's too late.