[nsantos]

I'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.

[dexen]

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?

[nsantos]

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?)

[bdunbar]

what have you done, and how did things turn out?

Agency got my resume, sent it to a company un-authorized. At at about the same time a peer was sending that manager my resume.

I lost out on what may have been a pretty good position, forever barred from that company.

I didn't do anything, couldn't. They wouldn't tell me who the agency was, other than it wasn't the one I had been dealing with.

That was a decade ago. I don't know what I'd do now: maybe write a polite blog post about it, so if someone googled my name they'd have my side of the story.