Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
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Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#2I'm sure others have been in similar (if not exactly the same) situations; what have you done, and how did things turn out?
It's highly likely that my "problem" has one clear course of action; but for someone who's been out-of-it for a while due to the pressures that come with having been out of work for over four months now, I'm not entirely sure how to go about it.
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#3I'm sure others have been in similar (if not exactly the same) situations; what have you done, and how did things turn out? It's highly likely that my "problem" has one clear course of action; but for someone who's been out-of-it for a while due to the pressures that come with having been out of work for over four months now, I'm not entirely sure how to go about it.
Consider whether their abuse of your resume actively harms you some way, be it lowering your repuation or re-directing potential clients to them.
If it does harm you, send them a cease&desist letter, based on your authorship of this text. Ask to remove the text from the website, and suggest further discussion.
Aside of that, consider negotiating some licencing fees for past and (if applicable) future use of the document. They may try to disclaim responsibility, blaming honest mistake of a random employee, but that not necessarily absolves any responsibility.
In any case, ask them to attach credit where it is due -- perhaps link to your personal website?
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#4I learned to add a Creative Commons notation & URL to the full license to every copy of my resume I've handed out for years now. It won't prevent spammers, but it does give easy grounds to get stuff like this pulled down.
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#5I learned to add a Creative Commons notation & URL to the full license to every copy of my resume I've handed out for years now. It won't prevent spammers, but it does give easy grounds to get stuff like this pulled down.
They're not exactly spammers, per se. This company was spun off of one I was part of for a little over a month; that's how they got my resumé. However, I've never been a part of this newer company, and I'm pretty sure the contract I signed with the older one is null and void to begin with.
Also, I'm from the Philippines, where the legal system isn't exactly amenable to small claims such as this. And, in any case, I don't really have the financial means to pursue this in court (not that I want to).
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#6For context, here's an earlier G+ post with a bit more background: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109068543568522312611/posts/VcrF...
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#7I'm sure others have been in similar (if not exactly the same) situations; what have you done, and how did things turn out? It's highly likely that my "problem" has one clear course of action; but for someone who's been out-of-it for a while due to the pressures that come with having been out of work for over four months now, I'm not entirely sure how to go about it.
Consider whether their abuse of your resume actively harms you some way, be it lowering your repuation or re-directing potential clients to them. If it does harm you, send them a cease&desist letter, based on your authorship of this text. Ask to remove the text from the website, and suggest further discussion. Aside of that, consider negotiating some licencing fees for past and (if applicable) future use of the docum…
Unless I get access to their clients list/information, and can positively identify clients that joined them largely (or even solely) because of the (relative) strength of my resumé, it'd be kind of hard to prove that their misuse of my brag sheet actively harms me, no?
Mostly, I'm interested in stories of others who've been in similar situations. Also, your suggestion implies enlisting the help of a lawyer; if so, I'd really rather have other options, since I don't have the... er, required financial capacity to do that at the moment. (Plus, is it even worth it to involve lawyers in something like this?)
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#8Get over yourself? In the grand scheme of life annoyances, this seems to me to be of little consequence.
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#9Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Ask them to stop and then get over it. They probably didn't even expect anybody would care because it's just not that big of a deal.
Re: Staff-leasing company "steals" my resumé; should I let them get away with it?
#10There's another side to this story...
There's a staff leasing company promoting its services by showing off the resume of someone who does not work for it. Do the actual contractors have similar skill sets? If so, why aren't they using their resumes?
There's something pretty unethical about marketing one level of talent and delivering a lower level.