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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

And here I thought you were talking about yesterday's Dilbert:
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20041218.html

~ian


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:03:28 -0500, Michael Czeiszperger
<michael AT czeiszperger.org> wrote:
> 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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> Chapel Hill, NC USA
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