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[Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>]

Of course, then there are other ways to get your resume more
noticed on monster.com. :-)

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20041220.html

Cheers,
Tanner


On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:07:28 -0500, Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > ___________________________________________________________________
> > michael at czeiszperger dot org
> > Chapel Hill, NC USA
> >
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