Resume Distribution and How to Fire

July 25, 2006 · Filed Under Adventures in (Mis)Management, Recruiting in the 21st Century 

Two great things that caught my eye this morning.

Secrets of the Job Hunt reveals that SimplyHired just launched a free resume distribution service. This will distribute your resume to all of the major job boards so that recruiters can search for you instead of the other way around. There are some cautionary tales to go along with resume distribution services. The top one is:

Don’t post your resume if your current employer doesn’t know you’re looking.

They can (and will) find it and then you’ll have some explaining to do. Be prepared for all of the usual scams to be sent to you via e-mail disguised as legitimate job opportunities.

Guy Kawasaki writes about how to fire someone. Number 11 is the key for most organizations: Look in the mirror. If you hired someone and it didn’t work out, why didn’t it work out and what signs could you have caught during the evaluation? It is a question most HR departments fail to ask really well. I would also add that when you’ve decided to fire someone, you bring them into the meeting and tell them the reason for this meeting in the first sentence (i.e. they’re getting fired). Beating around the bush and talking about reasons before they know the action you’re going to take is pointless.

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2 Responses to “Resume Distribution and How to Fire”

  1. Recruiting.com on July 25th, 2006 11:24 am

    Simply Hired Gives Candidates Back Top Monster And CareerBuilder

    Maybe I miss the point. Let me rephrase that. I get the point but I just don’t get it. I know that what makes the vertical search engines great is that it drives a potential candidate directly to your website. That part of it is great. I love that par…

  2. Mon on December 17th, 2007 9:29 pm

    Not sure that I would want to be marched into a meeting and told you are fired straight off the bat. Euphemisms could be useful at this time, like this isn’t working out, or its not me its you, perhaps even I’ve started seeing someone else.

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