Sending out resumes during work

[Jersey_Steve]

Should I be doing it? I mean, I don't want to be at the job I am now, but if the company I'm applying to sees that I have a job and am sending resumes during working time, would that count against me?

[WorkInProgress]

Yes, I'd think so.

Surely you're not sending them from your current work email address. Over your current work's server, on company time?

[Jersey_Steve]

Yes, I'd think so.

Surely you're not sending them from your current work email address. Over your current work's server, on company time?

No, no, no... From my laptop and my personal account. But yea, on company time.

[CityGal]

Def. don't do it on your company computer or during work hours, even if you don't like the job. I would hold off until later on to do this though.

[AshleyJordan]

I'd just do it after work. Even at my last job, which I hated, where they didn't monitor our internet use very closely, and where I had a private office, I didn't do it. I don't know about you, but I tend to get really nervous doing stuff like that. . . I even didn't like scheduling interviews/returning interviewer's email messages during the work day. . . . I just got super-nervous, and therefore more apt to make a dumbass typo in my message/goof on the phone convo.

[shadeofgreen]

The workday is when I get my best cover letter writing and job searching done. I don't use my work email address, of course, but otherwise...it's gotten to the point where I sometimes don't bother to minimize the window when people walk by. I honestly don't know why I haven't gotten fired yet.

I do sometimes think about how that looks to the HR person receiving my resume. I imagine some of them do tend to notice when currently-employed people are sending out resumes at 1:30 on a Tuesday afternoon... I guess I could say I do it on my lunch break.

[winneythepooh7]

I personally wouldn't do it. I've also walked by people's computers in the past where they left the resume and email they were sending wide open for all to see........

[dacrunkest]

a colleague of mine has 50 copies of his resume on his desk. When my boss asked about it, my colleague told him that he kept them there to remind my boss that he could use more money.

[Tiff58]

I don't see an issue with sending out resumes during the work day, as long as it's not with your work email address. What if you were on vacation that day? I have my doubts that an HR person would look at something like that. I could be VERY wrong, of course.

[awhitmer83]

Personally, I don't see the difference between sending a resume during the work day and attending a job interview during the work day. Either way, there is a certain level of doing something you shouldn't on company time. (I realize some people take a day off for an interview, but still.) I don't like looking for jobs while I'm at work, but I can't contact people after hours, so I have to do what I can. I'd just be glad to find a job I love so I won't have to look any more!

[wordsmith]

I did pretty much all my correspondence for getting my new job on my computer at my old job (private e-mail account, though, and our internet is not monitored).

[pepsi91307]

What's wrong with just waiting a few hours til you're off work?

[cheshrcarol]

I don't think the company receiving the resume would care. However, I would highly recommend against this unless you're prepared to lose your job because I was fired over this exact thing a couple years ago. It worked out well in the end, but not everyone's up for that kind of gamble ;).

[wordsmith]

What's wrong with just waiting a few hours til you're off work?

I had 24-hour, 7 day a week computer access at my job, so I didn't keep a computer at home. I did all my computer needs-based things via my work computer, before, during, and after hours. It was one of my job perks.