Careers: You might not know this, but that paper-based or electronic summation of your entire career actually has a street value — particularly among ‘job board’ phishing scammers. Alas, there happens to be a special offer circulating that places a price on your resume only to fool job seekers into handing over personal information which, quite naturally, gets plunked directly into an identity-theft database. “Every job offer via e-mail takes on a suspicious cast,” explains Nick Corcodilos in Ask the headhunter. And he links to an invoice that proves it. Best of the blogs: Moving right along, one reader of Bob Lewis’ Advice Line column is in a tight spot. “I’ve just been quietly shown out of the door of IT. So here’s the problem: I’m too young to retire but too old to easily find a new position in IT,” he writes. Mr. Lewis offers three choices for our reader, as well as his sympathy and a quarter. “Welcome to the world of business change. It isn’t true that all change is good for you … What is true is that you have to recognize the difference between resisting change and just resenting it.” [Ed’s note to reader: If you do seek other employment, be sure to check the entry immediately above this one, which includes a link to, oh heck, I’ll just place it here: 12 resume posting truths, as published on the World Privacy Forum’s Web site.]Apps: Wizened journalist that he is, Ephraim Schwartz knows that the best way cut through vendor hype is to track down those folks who actually use the technology day in and out. So he set out to achieve just that for software-as-a-service, otherwise knows as SaaS the great. “I’ve been wondering what it is that’s inherent to all or most SaaS applications that makes the model so appealing to midsize and larger companies,” Schwartz ponders in The real appeal of SaaS. Just what did he find? As is so often the case, “technology is only part of the story.” Careers