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["Richard O. Hammer" <ROHammer AT EarthLink.net>]

It sure is eye opening to hear the side of an actual employer seeking to 
hire someone.  From the other side it is also very difficult to get any 
viable leads, as I experience it.

Perhaps you would be better served if Monster charged not only the 
employer but also the job seeker for posting a resume.  Being free, the 
posting service is abused.

Rich Hammer

 Michael Czeiszperger 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.