Yesterday I began to create a resume/profile on Monster. I say "began to" because after something like 45 minutes struggling with the site ( ...[cut for long snarly rant of rantiness]... )
Monster is, IMO, nearly useless. You might want to try Indeed.com, which at least appears to run something like an XML aggregator on a few dozen job boards and will then send you daily email of new matches across all of them- which saves the time and tsuris of having to fill out all the damn, counter-intuitive forms for the boards and then again when actually applying for positions (n.b.: I haaaate Taleo's online application application with the passion of a hundred thousand suns for its awkwardness in parsing content, even if it's not particularly formatted- for example, I live on NW 87th St; but every damn time I find a position to apply for on one of the sites using it, it interprets that string as if it were a UK postal code- NW8 7TH). Odd bias for a company headquartered in the US, processing applications for US-based firms from a resume with a US address with the language tagged (from Word) as English (Canada)).
And don't get me started on technical recruiters who can't open resumes composed and saved in the native format from the most current version of Word....
And don't get me started on technical recruiters who can't open resumes composed and saved in the native format from the most current version of Word....
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