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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

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