The Suggestion Kitty says …

 

When posting your resume on a job board (Monster, Dice, Hot Jobs, etc), do not post it as “confidential.”  Either include your name  … or don’t post your resume out there at all.  Keeping your resume as "confidential" may decrease your chances of being contacted for a job.

 

On the back-end, recruiters do reverse look-ups in our own in-house databases to see if the applicant is already in there or already interviewed, but if you don’t include a name, you make that task difficult or impossbile.  And consequently, we may move on to the next resume.  I definitely will.


If you are truly, truly worried about people at your current company spying on you (b/c I assume that’s why people keep their resumes confidential), just don’t post it.  Apply directly to jobs of interest … with your real name.

 

Two more quick thoughts: 

  • Even if you keep your resume confidential, if someone wants to find you, they can.  It’s not that hard to figure out who is who based on resumes and key word search functionality. 
  • If you don’t heed my advice and decide to post a resume confidentially anyway, please remember to remove your name from the body of the resume.  If you want to hide behind anonymity, at least do it right. :)

 Meow!

gretchen