Telling a Manager You Found Their Employee's Resume On-line: Is It Tattling?
Here's the scenario: you're a hiring manager, recruiter, or other human resources professional and you're trolling the CollegeRecruiter.com resume bank (why would you possibly want to use any other?) in search of students searching for internships or recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs. You stumble across the resume of one of your organization's current employees. Do you forward a copy to that employee's manager to let her know that her employee may be looking to jump ship? Do you confront the employee? Do you ignore it because taking action would be akin to tattling?
I believe that that HR should inform a manager when HR discovers that one of the manager's employees in a job board's resume bank. However, I also think that HR should make sure that the manager understands that the existence of the resume does NOT mean that the employee intends to jump ship.
This isn't the 1950's when employers were loyal to their employees and those employees reciprocated by being loyal to their employers. None of us intends to retire from the same organization that we went to work for upon graduation and all of us have seen our friends, family, or even ourselves terminated because of issues with our employers that had nothing to do with the quality of our work.
To some extent, we're all active job seekers and none of us are truly passive. If the employer across the street came to you tomorrow with an offer of better working conditions at double the pay, wouldn't you at least listen? There's little difference between that and posting your resume to a job board. By posting a resume, you're expressing a willingness to listen. Nothing more, nothing less.
As the HR professional, I would also speak with the employee who posted the resume and counsel them that they should have done so anonymously. All of the major job boards allow you to do so, although many people don't realize it. Many employers hate anonymous resumes and refuse to contact those candidates yet it is those same employers who hold it against their own employees when those employees are discovered because they didn't set their resumes up anonymously. Folks, we can't have it both ways.
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