Comments on: Hacked Job Board Tells Victims to Pay for Protection Themselves http://www.ere.net/2009/10/27/hacked-job-board-tells-victims-to-pay-for-protection-themselves/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:03:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steven Rothberg http://www.ere.net/2009/10/27/hacked-job-board-tells-victims-to-pay-for-protection-themselves/comment-page-1/#comment-16366 Steven Rothberg Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:31 +0000 http://www.ere.net/?p=10486#comment-16366 This is one of the primary reasons why 1.5 years we became the first major job board to kill its resume searching tool. See http://www.collegerecruiter.com/press-room/general/collegerecruitercom-first-majo/. The risk of hacking and identity theft is too great and increasing. Job boards cannot properly secure their resume banks while at the same time making them easy to log into for their employer clients. When I.T.'s security interests are pitted against marketing's sales interests, guess who tends to win? The International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS) meets next week in Chicago. Hopefully this issue will (again) be raised and hopefully more job boards will choose to follow our lead. We followed the lead of RecruitingNevada.com. A representative from that site talked about how and why they never allowed resume searching. I was convinced their approach was correct so we killed resume searching shortly afterward. This is one of the primary reasons why 1.5 years we became the first major job board to kill its resume searching tool. See http://www.collegerecruiter.com/press-room/general/collegerecruitercom-first-majo/. The risk of hacking and identity theft is too great and increasing. Job boards cannot properly secure their resume banks while at the same time making them easy to log into for their employer clients. When I.T.’s security interests are pitted against marketing’s sales interests, guess who tends to win?

The International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS) meets next week in Chicago. Hopefully this issue will (again) be raised and hopefully more job boards will choose to follow our lead. We followed the lead of RecruitingNevada.com. A representative from that site talked about how and why they never allowed resume searching. I was convinced their approach was correct so we killed resume searching shortly afterward.

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