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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: Internetworkers AT happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu:"http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [internetworkers] Posting Resume on Monster.com != looking for work
  • Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:03:28 -0500

I've spent the last two weeks trying to pick people to interview for a couple of job openings for software engineers. Monster has a service where instead of posting the job description, you instead search their database of resumes. I thought this could potentially be more efficient than posting a job description and so paid my $400 and started searching. Unfortunately what I found instead is that people just leave their resume on Monster and then just ignore anyone trying to contact them.

Even if you restrict the searching to resumes added in the past month, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're looking for work. I spent days reading recently posted resumes, and no one I contacted would return emails or phone calls. :-( I finally got a hold of one person who had just posted a resume two days earlier who was peeved I had bothered him.

After talking to someone who also just leaves his resume on Monster regardless of his desire to find work, I'm wondering how common this is? So far I'd have to say my $400 was wasted, and I'm going to go back to the "traditional" method of posting the job description and let people send their resumes.

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michael at czeiszperger dot org
Chapel Hill, NC USA





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