post #15 - Where exactly IS my resume?

This morning I had a recruiter (on the other side of the country) email me about a relatively local (to me) position, after seeing my resume on a job portal. It's not in a city that I'd consider commuting to, so I thanked him for reaching out but stated that the commute wasn't doable for me. I then asked him where he found my resume because to my knowledge, my resume wasn't available to the public. Not surprisingly, I haven't heard back from him.

I get that ghosting is the new norm, but as someone you reached out to (and who hasn't applied to a job on any job portals in well over a year and a half), don't you think I deserve to know where my resume was found? It's unnerving to me that my resume (or some previous version of it) is floating around in cyber space.

Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and other web detectives, if a candidate asks where you found their resume, PLEASE tell them. I personally don't want to think that companies who use job portals to manage applications are selling these resumes to recruiters (and who knows who else), but I'm not coming up with a more plausible reason why a recruiter across the country ended up with my resume. This feels like a serious breach of some sort to me...

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