This came up on my radar and I took a look at it. And this big fat old turkey is unimpressed. Anytime you have to hunt for how much something costs that to me is a big red flag. In looking at it, I had three observations:
(1) It suffers from what I call LinkedIn syndrome — you can only have one resume — so how can you customize for the oppty under consideration;
(2) It’s three blind mice — who is looking at your resume, who is submitting it duplicatively (I lost a job that way), and who are you selling into.
(3) It costs the seeker money.
So it has a lot of negatives in my mind. Any one of these would turn me off.
YMMV
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Plan A – $39.95
Resume Distribution
One time fee – 3 distributions. We will email your profile to recruiters, employers and corporate hiring managers that have registered at ResumeSpider to receive your information. These targeted leads are matched by your desired job function, industry and location.
Plan B – $69.95
Resume Distribution Plus
(Valued at $79.90)
Same as Plan A. We also provide you their contact information, track who has opened and evaluated your resume, and give you access to the SpiderTalk private messaging system.
Plan C – $99.95
Combo Package
(Valued at $119.85)
Same as Plan B. In addition, you now have access to our Industry List containing 100s or 1000s of company contacts. We do not send your resume to this list; however this list provides you a minimum of one key contact name at companies targeted by their office locations and their respective industries. If you are applying to job ads, you usually don’t know who received your resume, so this information can very helpful because now you have a name to contact.
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Seed Newsvine
Monday, January 21, 2008 at 11:50 am |
Hi,
I found your posting this morning and would like to respond. It seems you may be somewhat confused on what we do so I would like to have an opportunity to get more information to you.
ResumeSpider is not a job board; like Monster, Careerbuilder, or HotJobs. We are not like Linkedin either. If we were like any of these I would agree with your 3 points.
We are a career specific networking tool that offers a common-sense solution to decreasing the time it takes for you to develop a targeted list of contacts. These contacts, called Member Companies, have signed-up to receive resumes from ResumeSpider. Furthermore, the online reporting feature provides accountability by tracking the progress of your campaign. Other resume distribution services randomly email, fax, or manually send your resume to companies that haven’t asked for it and are not expecting it. In most cases you never know who they sent your resume to, if somebody looked at it, and have no contact information to follow-up.
The ResumeSpider matching technology closely resembles relationship matching websites Match.com and eHarmony. Job Seekers are matched to Member Companies in the network based on their job function, industry experience and desired locations. Then your profile is emailed to those select Member Companies. ResumeSpider has 1000s of companies in their network and adds 400-500 new companies, on average, every month. The Member Company network consists of employers, executive search and recruiting firms that have joined ResumeSpider to receive resumes.
Most would agree that networking is a very important activity in any job search and should be incorporated as soon as possible. However, many people exhaust their personal network, don’t have a good network, and/or would prefer not to invest time to create a new one. For example, to do this on your own, you need to call into a company, find out if they hire your profile, then get a contact name, phone number and email address. Now duplicate that task 250 or 500 or 1000 times. Unfortunately this effort can take weeks or months with our own time and resources. Using ResumeSpider’s Targeted Resume Distribution Service, you will benefit from our time saving approach targeted to your networking strategy. It is important to remember that your time is worth something!
On average 80-85% of the jobs that were open were filled WITHOUT ever being advertised to the public. Furthermore, employers don’t want to pay $500-$2500 to post a job and search the online databases, especially with no guarantee they will find a candidate. That is why they only advertise their critical or hard to fill positions. Bottom line – don’t limit a job search to scouring the jobs ads. ResumeSpider is not the lone solution either and should be used with many other sources too.
I’m not sure if you are in the career industry, but I will say that most job seekers that use ResumeSpider are referred from professionals in the career industry; Career Coaches, Resume Writers and Executive Recruiters. Regardless, you seem to be very open-minded towards discussions like this, so I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Best Regards,
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 12:11 pm |
Steve,
Interesting idea you have.
How would one find out how many companies you have in your database and how many are immediatly hiring for specific group of jobs prior to signing up?
I am interested in your service but as we all know the USA
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 2:40 pm |
Don’t bother. I have been with resumespider for 1 year and have had no results.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:48 am |
I have to agree with Debbie, just another scam. I have several friends who took his bait, paid their money, and poof! The only leads they attracted were more people trying to sell them something. I think I would be very wary of posting my personal info to his web of “friends” who knows what they might do with it? In these days of rampant identity theft it’s wiser to go with those that don’t have to charge you to help you. Just my three cents– (inflation).
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 7:31 am |
I’m going to ditto Debbie…it’s a waste of money…they claim to send your resume out to a huge number of recruiters and companies….I’ve had 2 responses that led no where…you’re better off looking for jobs at indeed.com and submitting the resume on your own.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:23 pm |
Thanks Debbie, Kris and especially Steve, you just save me some money! Keep this posting right here so other people can see.
Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 10:57 am |
I wish I had read this before plunking down $70 of my hard earned cash. It appears that their “members” are no more than Johnny come lately freelancers looking to make a buck off of your unemployment situation.
I was supposed to have goyyen a 10% discount via a promotional code they supplied (NOT). When I called them on it; they never answered me!
Save your money — it’s bad enough you have none coming in — why throw what you have away?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 9:11 am |
I opened my wallet to get my credit card to sign up for Resume Spider …but I thought it would be smart to Google it to see if I could find any feedback. You folks saved me $39.
Off topic, I noticed a reference from Kris regarding indeed.com. Iwould appreciate any feedback on this site.
Thanks
Sunday, November 30, 2008 at 9:13 am |
I used them 3 years ago and I’m going to use them again today. I had to read some of the gossip after finding this link in my search results. Typical unimpressive crying and playing the blame game. Probably spider’s competition trying to run their name thru the mud.
Just contact spider yourself and get informed to see if it is right for you. Be positive and take ownership over YOUR job search. Peace!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 11:41 am |
I heard about resume spider from a recruiter. Being the skeptic that I am I looked it up and found this page.
Why would this recruiter be so enthusiastic about it ? Here is your answer:
https://www.resumespider.com/afhome_.phtm
Easy Referrals Mean Big Commissions for You!
I wonder if just like with eHarmony and others you start receiving emails when your membership is about to expire…
Follow the money …
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 8:34 pm |
Thanks for this page- I almost paid for this and I cannot afford to throw any money away right now.
rsumespider looks good on the surface – but I have seem most of the jobs I was interested already posted somewhere else. So I do not think this program is that necessary.
I will jsut keep checking the other free services and the one I subscribed to that I like IHIRE Hospitality, careerbuilder, Yahoo’s job site and Craig’s list.
Good luck out there- it is a tough market for us right now.
Rick
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
Thanks guys for all your posts. I checked out the link on Gustavo’s post and, it’s true, ResumeSpider is ALSO a business opportunity. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that as long as the company provides a quality service for the cost of its membership, and I think therein lies the real discussion.
I paid $55 for a Premium Package to advertise my car on Cars.com, but you know, it sold in 41 days at my asking price. Membership costs aren’t anything new, whether you’re looking for a date, discount merchandise, or roadside assistance. The point is, just becuse there is a cost for a service doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a scam. I think one also needs to be realistic about employment expectations in this job market, and if your education, skills and employment history reflect the position you’re applying for.
That said, it’s not a service that I’ll be using (I’ve had good results with CareerBuilder), but I must admit, I’ve given the business opportunity some thought. Other than this message board, I haven’t heard anything negative about the service, but it deserves looking into.
Good luck to everyone.
Monday, February 16, 2009 at 8:16 pm |
RESUME SPIDER SCAM
MY MOST RECENT EMAIL TO THE SPIDER SCAMMERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO GET A REFUND:
SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT! SCAM ALERT!
“Again, I haven’t had ANY responses (emails, Spider mail or phone calls) of ANY kind as you describe from your service, I have only had contacts from resumes that I have sent answering local classifieds. In addition, my response rate from your sight should be increasing, according to your sight and I have had “zero” as in NO responses. Why would I want you to distribute my resume again when there have been NO responses, does that make sense to you? Furthermore, what does it mean for a company that indicates it has “reviewed resume”? Am I supposed to call all 150 plus of these so called ‘respondents”, waste their and my time to convince them that I am an “A” player and should have been called by them? I have secured previous positions with the resume submitted to your sight, beating out several hundred candidates, more than once. Results oriented recruiters, the good ones, don’t work like that.
Once again, don’t waste any more of our time, if your goal is my satisfaction, remove my account and credit me for the amount charged or do a prorated amount at the very least.”
MPC
USE: Indeed.com, Monster, SimplyHired or your local Sunday paper and your results will be just as 100% GUARANTEED as “Resume Spitter” and won’t cost you a dime……
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 9:21 pm |
I also almost signed up for Resume Spider, but didn’t and had very positive results from looking on indeed.com and Monster.com. Monster is a great, great service; the best. They also offer resume distribution for a price, but it’s on an if you want it level. If you want to spend your money on having help with distributing your resume, I would go with someone with a reputable name and established reputation and reliability. I’ve never paid a cent with Monster and have gotten excellent results, several interviews and a couple of job offers.