Being prepared is the crux of passive job seeking.  Keeping your resume up to date and ready to deliver to interested employers is a must.

The best way to ensure you are able to leap at an opportunity is to update your resume continuously, rather than right before you need it.  As soon as you receive a promotion or award, add it to your resume.  Anytime you overcome a new challenge or notice evidence of your success (especially anything quantitative), add it to your resume. 

While you update your resume, remember that you need to keep it short and concise (learn about resumes here). 

An easy way to keep your resume(s) up to date and ready to send out is to create a profile and upload it onto the TopBuildingJobs.com.  You can select both your Job Search Status and your Resume Anonymity Level. 

Job Search Status can be set to ‘Active’, ‘Passive’, or ‘Private’.  Selecting a ‘passive’ job search status and appropriate resume anonymity levels will allow employers to see your resume, but know you are currently employed.  Setting your job search status as ‘private’ means you are off the market.  Employers cannot see your resume with this setting, even if they search for it specifically.  You can, however, still apply for a job and send it to employers, at which point what they see will be defined by the resume anonymity level.

Resume Anonymity Level controls how much of your contact information is visible to an employer.  If you use the TopBuildingJobs.com Resume Wizard, you can even hide the names of previous emlpoyers.  You can set your resumes to ‘Fully Open’, ‘Contact Info Hidden’, or ‘Contact Info and Company Names Hidden’.  With ‘fully open’ selected, employers see your entire resume.  With ‘contact info hidden’, your username replaces your full name, and a link is provided allowing anonymous e-mail interaction.  With ‘contact info and company names hidden’, the names of your previous and current employers are hidden along with your contact information.

With these controls and the ability to update your resume at anytime, from anywhere with an Internet connection, keeping your resume up to date and ready to send out to (or be viewed by) employers is convenient and easy.  It’s one step to take in becoming a prepared and successful passive job seeker.

Read my article on Passive Job Seeking and Construction HERE!