JOBS--has anyone here ever gotten a job through Monster

[leftofthedial]

or another online job site?

Over a two-year period, I bet I have submitted resumes and cover letters for 250 jobs online and I've never had so much as an interview from one of them.

[Blue_Tires]

1. wow...this creeps me out

just now I was writing this EXACT same rant as a new post, and right when i was about to click 'post message', my eyes fell upon the list of the top 10 recent.....

fwiw, here is my rant, word for word:

has Monster.com EVER gotten a job for anyone you know?!?!?

I use other job resources as well, so I'm just venting here--been a member for almost 5 fruitless years now...Granted, I haven't been jobless for the ENTIRE 5 years, mind you, only two and a half....

[barb162]

2. yes

Monster (but I didn't accept the offer. I almost took it, but something just didn't feel right about the place )

[leftofthedial]

3. how recently?

[barb162]

26. It was about 2 years ago

I think the problem with Monster and these other huge sites is they get thousands of resumes. Most people I know who have used Monster didn't ever get responses

[radfringe]

4. no

just calls from recruiters wanting to offer me temp jobs on the other side of the country

although moving is not entirely out of the question - I'm not about to move 3,000 miles for a 2-week temp job that pays less than I'm getting now

[leeroysphitz]

13. Same here...

Apparently I could write my own ticket if I just relocated to Buffalo...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. Yes.

Though I was later laid off from that job, but that's no fault of Monster.

I'd also try Craigslist if you haven't.

[leftofthedial]

30. thanks

I just submitted resumes for six jobs on craigslist

I think I'm overqualified for all of them, but I hope they'll at least give me a look.

:thumbsup:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

36. I've gotten a couple part-time gigs as well as my current FT job

off of Craigslist.

I think that people who post jobs there generally actually have positions that they need filled.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. A good friend of mine got an awesome job through Monster...

but this was some time ago before Monster became what it is now. MrG put his resume up and only gets offers for sales jobs...you know the ones...door to door, calling on the phone for crap. He's a CNC programmer and these "offers" are completely out of line with what his resume outlines. :hi:

[jmowreader]

8. And most of them are for selling insurance, right?

I've been looking around a bit (being a zookeeper at the Sandhills Moran Preserve is starting to get old, folks) but it seems everyone who's hiring wants me to either sell insurance or "work at home data entry."

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Pretty much. I think it's mostly insurance. We don't let them get too

far. The work at home data entry is a kit you have to purchase and then shill yourself to companies...who are probably already outsourcing their work.

Here is an idea for you. I started out typing real estate appraisals up for my neighbor. I then took the classes and she trained me (you need 2000 hours in the field for licensing), I took the test, got my license and am now an independent contractor for an appraisal company. I can also do work on my own. You make your own hours...take time off whenenver you want. there are slow periods but, in the long run...working a 30 hour week, I can bring in about 125K a year, before taxes. Worth looking into in this service oriented society we are becoming.

I will say it is hard to get your foot in the door. I was lucky to know two appraisers who gave me my start. :hi:

[leeroysphitz]

14. Wow. I program CNC's as well, and have gotten much the

same results from Monster...

[purr]

7. my hubby did..

I havent :(

[meegbear]

10. I did ...

monster.com RAUCKS!!

[DS1]

11. Got any PHP openings at your place?

:D

[LSK]

18. you do PHP programming?

[DS1]

20. Affirmative

:thumbsup:

[leftofthedial]

31. sounds like you lucked out

:thumbsup:!!

I mean you're supremely qualified and they're lucky to have found you, but you were at the right place at the right time.

[AllegroRondo]

12. Yes, but not directly

I rarely got even a response from most of the job postings I answered on Monster.

But - the job I have now is the result of an employer looking through Monster resumes and finding mine.

[Mizmoon]

15. I have hired and been hired through monster

the problem is that when you post a job there, no matter what criteria you put in the ad, you get swamped with a million inappropriate resumes.

One time I was even stalked by a potential job candidate. He extrapolated my name from my email address and left me multiple way-too-enthused messages on my voicemail AND stopped by the company uninvited. When I met him in the lobby to tell him he would not even be interviewed because he didn't qualify, he called me obscene names and stormed out. Nice. I had a coworker walk me to my car for the next few weeks just to be safe.

I actually have an interview this week for a job I saw on Monster. I emailed my resume on Thursday night and they emailed me on Friday AM to schedule an interview. I was perfectly qualified, though.

And trust me, I too have sent many a resume into the void with nary a peep from the recipient. It's all about being at the right place at the right time.

[leftofthedial]

16. I hired someone through Monster four or five years ago

AFter a twenty-five-plus year technology career, I'm probably perceived as overqualified for nearly every position, but still, from over 250 submissions in two years, one would think I'd have gotten at least one interview.

I know I'm hitting rampant age discrimination as well.

[Ravenseye]

43. Is there a trick to submitting?

I've heard that Monster and the other sites these days are as you describe. Tons of resumes get blown in. I heard that you have a better shot if you wait like a week or so to apply for the job, because then the resume comes in after all that crud and might score more attention?

My wife has been looking for months now and applied for god knows how many jobs on Monster with no real responses. Not a single interview, and these are for jobs she's highly qualified for. It's frustrating for her.

[Richardo]

17. I got my current job through monster.com

So there's that.

[Patiod]

19. I've had good luck with specialty web sites

There are actually websites for focus group moderators -- I've gotten on board with recruiters via those boards, and gotten jobs.

[Ivan Sputnik]

21. Nope

Just calls from temp agencies (but not for any specific assignments) and offers to sell insurance. I often respond to online job postings that I have ALL the listed qualifications for -- but don't get a response. That tells me they have qualifications that they won't or can't mention in an ad, such as age and/or gender.

[leftofthedial]

22. I don't even get that kind of crap

I get zip

nada

nothing

it's like my email or filling out the online forms and submitting a resume just vanishes into thin air.

I am extremely qualified, with a 25-year record of success in my field. I can see that often I'm overqualified or that many employers are discriminating against my age (I'm now 50, going on 19 LOL!), but in two solid years of using half a dozen online sites to seek a job, I've never even gotten an interview.

It's ironinc, since back in the "old" days of the Internet, at a previous employer, I was part of a team that pioneered using the Internet for job recruiting.

Two or maybe three times I've gotten the "form-letter" we'll-keep-your-resume-on-file response. Otherwise, bupkus.

[DS1]

27. I spearheaded one of the first B2B ERP web apps in the world

Now, I'm looking at entry-level positions and have yet to get a followup on interviews.

[leftofthedial]

32. sounds familiar

five to ten years ago, I was pioneering e-commerce and other web-based apps and a keynote speaker for international technology conferences

now I'm begging for low-level positions

I should have started my own tech company instead of the nonprofit I'm running (for free) now.

[DS1]

33. It was suggested to me by a close confidant last night that

it might be wise to "dumb down" our experience, since as we both well know there's plenty of knuckleheads in IT who walked past a server once who are only there because they don't threaten to expose the knuckleheads above them as ... knuckleheads.

[leftofthedial]

34. new entry on my resume

June 2001 to August 2002
Random Technologies
Senior Knucklehead
Responsible for walking past a server occasionally and making my boss feel less like a knucklehead at staff meetings.


LOL


I've thought about "dumbing down" my resume too. Truth is, right now I don't even WANT a senior executive position. If my latest round of resumes anc cover letters come to naught, I'm taking the dumber approach. Duh! Dumber should succeed mightily in king george's Murka.

[DS1]

35. Daily Server Report

Audible - Fans appear operational
Visual - Lights flashing, no sign of smoke or damage
Thermal - Warm to touch

All systems are "Go"

[leftofthedial]

23. you aren't the songwriter Will Robinson are you?

[Ivan Sputnik]

37. No

LOL

[leftofthedial]

39. of course not!

LOL He's a repuke dittohead.

good songwriter though.

[Lochloosa]

24. Yep. My lastest job was off an add on Monster.

[leftofthedial]

25. did you reply to the ad with the "Apply Now" button,

or was it from your resume being posted on Monster?

[Lochloosa]

28. The button.

My job is very specilized. That may be the reason it worked for me.
I did have a few headhunters contact me and even talked to a few a couple of times. I was not ready to relocate, so I never set up any interviews with them. There were a few really good jobs out of state that interested me. One was in NOLA to help with the rebuilding of the dykes. That would have been cool.

[Lochloosa]

29. Dupe

[La Lioness Priyanka]

38. i have

a couple through monster and a couple through craigslist

[Nikia]

40. I got a temp job through Monster

I could have had another temp job through the same agency for the same company but I felt the need to take a permanent job where I work now.
I have had several interviews applying throught career builder. I have also gotten interviews aplpying to jobs listed on Wisconsin jobnet, although that is particuliar to Wisconsin.

[Blue_Tires]

41. maybe i'd have luck with other sites than monster?

are there any better ones?

[Minnesota Libra]

42. My son got an IT job online - not sure......

.....which job site he went with though. He had the job for aboutthree years until he got a similar job paying more and closer to home.

[Kat45]

44. I just updated an old resume on Monster today.

But the site was a bit weird; when I tried to do some things, the only clickable button it gave me was "cancel." Thus, I didn't get to set things up how I would have liked. :shrug: