How to Make Your Online Resume Searchable Without Personal Information

If you have a resume on career builders or Monster.com and you are still working for an employer that uses Monster or CareerBuilder to look for new employees, you can tip them off that you are looking for a new position and could give them a reason to fire you. Here is how you can get around it on these sites that you will still be able to make your resume searchable, but keep out your private information, such as your current employer's name and address. This way you can still search for a new position and no one will have to know. The first thing I would suggest doing is opening a free email account at Gmail, or yahoo with an email address that doesn't contain your name or identifying information. Use something like "PA_job_seeker", or an email address similar to that which doesn't give away any personal information.

How to make your resume searchable yet keep details private on Monster.com

To do this, when you are uploading your resume think about what you want the potential employers to know about you. You can make this vague but still give details. Give your job descriptions in such a way that you won't give away any clues to where you work.

Monster also has it that you can save your resume as Public, but hide your contact Information. This will hide your name, address, current company and the references. They suggest that if you do it this way that you also remove the information from your resume when you paste it into their online database. If you don't do it this way you will hide the information from employers, but as soon as they pull up the resume it will all be there on your resume. You can actually have the information on your resume, just use for the employer's name "contact me for employers name" instead of the name. Then give your information about your current job.

To hide your information at CareerBuilder

CareerBuilder has 3 options for posting your resume. "Anonymous" posting is the resume without any of your contact information. They advise you to remove all your contact information from the resume. "Standard" Posting will show all your information. Then they have "Private" posting which means the resume won't be searchable by employers. To have your resume exposed to the most employers you will have to just remember to remove all identifying information from your resume like you did at Monster.com

The best way to keep the information off of the sites is not to put it on the resume that is public. You can upload a different resume with the current information on and when contacted by an employer send them the current resume with all the details. Most employers will understand about your privacy and accept resumes this way.