People who don’t know anything about offering career advice want to charge you money to tell you what they don’t know.
The people who make the most money on the Internet seem to be those who charge other people money to tell them how to make money on the Internet. They sell products that are marketed as increasing online profitability but accidentally forget to mention that when discussing profitability, they were referring to themselves and not their customers.
Similarly, not knowing anything about job search advice or career advice will not necessarily prevent some people from offering it to you for a fee.
If you were convinced by someone that paying for a service that email your resume to thousands of recruiters or posts your resume on hundreds of online job boards was a good idea, you were wrong. And there is swampland in Florida with your name on it.
Mass emailing your resume to hundreds or thousands of faceless and nameless recipients is like doing the same with your name and phone number and expecting to get a date. You might get on You Tube or become part of a chain email but not for the right reasons.
Use common sense. When it comes to career and job search advice, listen to people who make sense and who offer advice you can actually use. Mass emailing your resume to people makes no sense on so many levels. Think of all the spam you receive in your in box. Do you open every single one or mass delete them upon seeing them? That’s what happens to your mass emailed resume too. Assuming it even reaches the recipient and didn’t get caught by a spam filter.
I’ve learned that many people market themselves not based on what they know, but how much of their products they’ve already sold, as if to suggest that this is proof they know what they are doing.
These days, the Internet has made it really easy to fire your resume off in all sorts of directions and place it upon every single job board you can find. Just remember it’s just as easy for other people to do the same thing, meaning that it just became a lot harder for people looking to hire staff to actually weed through all this stuff to find you.
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