JOBSEARCH: Resume Spider (not recommended)
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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Monday, January 21, 2008 at
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
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