Should You Use Resume Distribution Services To Get Sales Jobs?

Monday, October 15, 2007

Should You Use Resume Distribution Services To Get Sales Jobs? by Clint Cora

Resume Services : The best targets for a professional sales job search will always be the people who make final hiring decisions, i.e., the direct supervising sales managers. The further removed the targets are from the sales managers such as recruiters, headhunters and human resources staff, the more distant targets become for individuals hoping to get corporate sales jobs.

There are numerous resume distribution services to shotgun resumes to all sorts of recruiters, human resources people and other targets that are distant from the sales managers. These distribution services try to convince their clients that having their resumes blasted all over online is a step in the right direction towards landing professional sales positions.

The real question is whether candidates are really better off by using such resume distribution services. Let's put it this way, the resume distribution services are available to anyone who is willing to pay whether they have the job qualifications or not. Clients using these services will be just like all others who pay to get their resumes sent out there and there will be lots of folks in the same boat. It's an easy way to get resumes out and as a result, everyone will be doing the same thing.

Rather than separating oneself from the rest of the crowd as one should be doing for an effective job hunt, one will just be caught in the masses of all others who are also getting their resumes distributed in the same way. The recipients of these resumes, who are usually not the sales managers, will still get flooded with piles and piles of resumes.

We all know that personal referrals to sales managers and face to face meetings with them will always get oneself way ahead of the pack. Will resume distribution services be able to offer this route for their customers in order to make them really stand out in front of the crowd? Of course not. Resume distribution services do not really put candidates much further ahead. Sure it's easy to just pay to have your resume sent out but are they being put in front of the best people who are capable of making the final hiring decisions? Again, no. Are such services able to put your resume ahead in front of all their other paying customers? Definitely not!

Getting a resume and one's face in front of the best targets in a corporate sales job hunt takes a lot of work and can't be simply bought like resume distribution services would have you believe. One must get out there in front of the right industry people to make the best unforgettable personal impressions in order to land the best sales jobs. It is a lot of work but then again, that's what professional sales people do anyway.