Resume Spamming Creates Storage, Legal Snags

selan writes "Did you know that federal law requires companies to store a copy of every single resume they receive? This applies to emailed resumes too, regardless of whether the applicant got the company's name wrong or is applying for a job that doesn't exist at the company. Employers not in compliance risk being fined and could lose government contracts. The resulting storage problems are creating massive headaches at companies who are overwhelmed with bulk-emailed resumes. The Baltimore Sun has the story."

Comments

What are we waiting for?!!

[levik]

Let's all apply for the newly opened CEO position at Microsoft!

Re:What are we waiting for?!!

[anagama]

Forget that. I want a job at SCO!!! Don't you all?

Re:What are we waiting for?!!

[crazyphilman]

Amusing thought: what if people decided to send the resumes in, written in permamant marker on clay shingles? Or better, engraved on lead plates?

"Um, Sir? We just got a shipment of 973 new lead-plate resumes. Some are several pages long, mostly system administration experience."

"Crap. What next? Put them in the file cabinet."

"We did, sir, but they fell through the floor and killed Bob in Accounting."

"Damn! Send someone down there with a come-along and move them down to the basement with the others..."

Company looking for experienced developers...

[Lugor]

Send your resumes here: careers@microsoft.com.
Bulk mailers welcome.

Re:Company looking for experienced developers...

[ichimunki]

Forget that. I'm going to encode mine using CSS, that way not only do they have to store them, but reading them would violate the DMCA.

use /dev/null for storage

[stonebeat.org]

you can always use /dev/null for storing all the resumes - bulk or non-bulk ;)

Re:use /dev/null for storage

[tato (and tato only)]

I use /dev/urandom. Given sufficient time, I can retrieve any resume; from it.

Re:use /dev/null for storage

[fastdecade]

That's a coincidence - most recruiters use /dev/urandom to choose the best CV for the job.

and who could forget...

[H0NGK0NGPH00EY]

...our favorite resume spammer, Bernard Shiffman!

This is quite simply solved.

[John Penix]

1. Buy a 100 gig hard drive
2. Format it with random noise
3. Give the random noise a PGP header
4. If you're ever prosecuted for not keeping a copy of someone's resume, tell the prosecutor it's on this hard drive you've got, but you misplaced the encryption key.

Remember, the burden of proof is on the prosecutor. He has to prove that your noise isn't encrypted resumes.

Well then ...

[the bluebrain]

I think I'll start sending out resumes for the position of "Resume Collector and Archiver - You Know You Need One(TM)". Anyone got a link to the relevant federal reglementation?

Resume

[grub]

Send this to your various levels of government. Query them later via a freedom of information action to ensure they've kept it on file.

Osama bin Laden
Cave 273-b northern Afghanistan

Dear Imperialist Infidel,

Please accept this resume for your files concerning any openings
you may have.

Recently I've become newsworthy because of several operations my
Al Quaeda teams have carried our successfully. This demonstrates
a proven ability to plan and carry out large scale operations.

I think my years of experience in strategic planning and covert
operations would be an asset to your firm.

Yours very truly,

Osama bin Laden

But that's against the law!

[burgburgburg]

If the original post is correct, their junking of > 90% of the resumes is a violation of federal law.

Microsoft, violating federal law? I'm shocked!

An excellent plan...

[brooks_talley]

...just don't forget to make your resume a 2GB PDF file.

Cheers
-b

resume spamming?

[Spudley]

They haven't even stopped yet, and we're talking about letting them resume spamming?! ...

oh, wait... you meant "resumé", didn't you?