Is your job portal giving away free access or trials?

Beware of Job Portals who currently offer companies free access to companies in the interest of trying to win them over as a client. By offering free CV database access to agencies or companies, these portals are potentially putting their Job Seekers personal details at risk.

Before registering your CV on a job portal, find out if they offer free trial options to clients. Unless the company signs an agreement with the service provider (portal) to guarantee that they will protect your confidentially, then you should think twice about posting your CV on that database. Even if such an agreement was signed, unless the company or agency is requested to pay for this access it is still at risk, as it is far too easy for anyone (including marketing companies) to gain access to your details via this database. However, if they are required to pay a premium fee and enter into an agreement with the Service provider (portal) to ‘trial’ the site – such as with Jobs.co.za – then you can rest assured that your job portal has the protection of your personal information and confidentially of such in their best interest.

The same applies to bona fide recruitment agencies. If your service provider is currently offering free access to every fly by night ‘agency’, how does that protect your investment? By being forced to pay a premium fee to access the database, your Service Provider is essentially also protecting your investment in their database.

Free trials seem wonderful to companies, but beware of the risks involved as either a job seeker or a recruiter. Choose a recruitment technology provider or job portal that enforces strict policies in order to protect either your personal identity, or your future investment.

Monday, February 14th, 2011 at 1:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.