iProfile (I know, yet again)

[Julius Caesar]

I applied for a contract today. Soon I got an email from [email protected] saying Thank you for responding to our job advert.

So I logged on to iProfile. Behold! I had "joined" 2 agencies last year.

Declaration: I have NOT joined any organisations that I have not actually joined.


Strangest: my iProfile was completely empty: no CV details, no contact details. So what does it do and why did someone do it?

[gingerjedi]

I always thought iProflie was a pointless exercise but it keeps popping up so I spent a couple of hours yesterday cutting and pasting my CV into it, I put n/a in sections I thought were irrelevant and hid that section until it said 100% complete.

When you log in theres a list of about 30 agencies that claim to use it when searching for candidates, not sure if they do though as I've had gigs with a few of them without them mentioning it?

I had nothing better to do and even if it gives me 0.1% better chance of landing a gig it would have been worthwhile.

[RichardCranium]

About 14 (it goes up and down) use iProfile as their CV database. At least, that was the idea.

So by sending your CV to one of those agencies, they bung it onto iProfile and iProfile tells you you are now on there. You can then tidy it up (why yours is blank is a mystery - it should contain some very poorly entered defaults) and enable the other 13 agencies to see it.

In theory, we win as a bunch of agencies can find us according to our skills as defined on iProfile and those agencies save some pennies not having to have their own CV db and search mechanism.

We on CUK ought to love it and support it.

So it is shame it is a crock of poorly functioning tulip and more than one agent has said to me they hate it because it does not work very well for them either.

[minestrone]

iProfile did not tell me when they put it up. I was getting all kinds of calls about jobs all over Europe until an agent said he found my CV there.

One of the reasons I send my CV out as a read only PDF now until the agent tells me the client name.

[stingman123]

Wasn't there an instance where this site was hacked and details were used in a fraud scam?

I did use it a few years ago but still got agents asking me to amend my CV all the time!

[cojak]

Wasn't there an instance where this site was hacked and details were used in a fraud scam?

I did use it a few years ago but still got agents asking me to amend my CV all the time!

Bloody hell - was it?

[threaded]

Bloody hell - was it?

Somehow people were using versions of my CV to get roles. At least one I know of did a runner from SHAPE!

[cojak]

Somehow people were using versions of my CV to get roles. At least one I know of did a runner from SHAPE!

Do you think it's better to delete yourself from iProfile?

[stingman123]

Do you think it's better to delete yourself from iProfile?

I started that off a while ago, firstly by deleting DOB, address etc...

After I heard that the site was hacked I deleted everything (too late in know)

But the quality of calls coming through afterwards were much less vague than the usual vague calls.

[Cliphead]

Do you think it's better to delete yourself from iProfile?

I always do. Occasionally some agency I've never contacted emails me to say that they've put my CV on iProfile, shortly after that I delete it.