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Employers Trolling for Current Employee Resumes?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-put-yourself-out-there-you're-at-risk dept.

powderhound asks: "Recently, my employer started looking for new employees and started to find the resumes of current employees on the job Web sites. I've heard that management was not pleased. In the old days, before Web job sites, you could job hunt with relative certainty that your current employer would not find out until you gave notice. Now, any employer wishing to check on their employee's desire to find a new job need only sign up on the job Web sites and start trolling. How do we, as employees looking to change jobs, protect ourselves from possible discovery, and even worse, retribution? What have you done to protect yourself? Do you think employers are trolling job sites for their own employees?"

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  1. they should assume I'm looking at other jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    after all, I have to look out for myself, so I will always be looking.

    Employers are willing to fire you at any minute so they shouldn't expect any loyalty from you.

  2. Re:I was an HR Recruiter. WAS. by alfs+boner · · Score: 0, Troll
    You know that covert "jacking off" gesture that people make, when some loser is rambling on and on about uninteresting shit? Yeah... I just wanted to chime in and let you know that your story was not interesting at all.

    Jesus, 500 paragraphs about a summer job...

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    Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
  3. Re:The Real Problem by Reality+Master+101 · · Score: 1, Troll
    What I see in the industry is a definite trend toward companies caring much less about their employees.

    What I've never got -- even from my first job at age 13 -- is why people like you EXPECT employers to "care" about you? What, are they your surrogate parents or something? What *I* notice is a definite trend toward people being unwilling to take care of themselves, and so they are constantly looking for someone that will "care" for them (employers, the government, etc).

    You have a simple contract with your employer. You give them work, and they give you money + benefits in exchange. When the relationship is no longer mutually benefitial (either by you or them), you both move on.

    Grow up, take care of yourself, and stop looking for a new parent.

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    Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
  4. Re:The Real Problem by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Troll


    I know, I know, mod me as a troll, but where I'm from HR is a job given to minority women for diversity in the workplace, stats, etc.