Safe Job Hunting

Job Search Sites Center from Student Ease, the leading employer services recruiting and staffing firm on the internet can provide you with critical information to make your job search a success. This section will teach you the techniques of safe job hunting and how to protect you identity online.

Protecting Your Identity Online

Unfortunately when job hunting on the internet today you need to take a few precautions. According to the FBI identity theft is the number one internet crime. The information contained in resumes provides a very good starting point for identity thieves.

Also employers have been known to search resume posting boards looking for current employees. With that said the internet is a great place to search for a job you just need to take a few common sense precautions.

Minimize your contact information; this makes it harder to steal your identity and harder for your employer to discover your job search.

Start by removing the normal contact information from your resume:

Your Name
Your address
Your Phone Number
Business E-mail address (Not a good idea any ways)
Your Personal E-mail address

We strongly recommend to always use an alternative email address such as hotmail.com or Yahoo.com in a job search.