Is Monster.com completely useless these days? (job openings, applying, application)

[MItoBH]

I was applying for a job through Indeed.com yesterday and the application directed me to monster.com to apply for the job. I have a profile at monster.com, but I haven't updated it in two years. So in order to apply for the job I was interested in, I had to sign in under my monster account. I went ahead and took this time to freshen up my resume and submitted my application.

This morning, I get a call from an insurance company informing me that they found my resume on monster and wanted to talk to me about an exciting career opportunity . I asked her 'Are you calling me about an opportunity to sell insurance, if so, I am not interested. Nothing in my career history on my resume gives the impression that I want to sell insurance . She said yes she was calling about that, and then apologized for bothering me and I hung up.

So has monster.com lost all legitimacy now? Are they nothing but a black hole warehouse of resumes for shady insurance companies to call people and try to recruit them to sell insurance? If I get another call like that, I will have to delete my profile at monster.

[Tigeru]

I thought it was useless in 2005 so yes

[DamageInc]

Monster stopped being usefull a few years ago. I tried to use it but the same jobs were there day after day. Week after week. It not current.

[jman07]

No one uses it anymore. Everyone uses indeed.

[maus]

Careerbuilder is slightly better than Monster but not by much. I had better luck using other means, Indeed and Dice, in particular.

[MLSFan]

I use careerbuilder and simplyhired...

Mostly, I just use them to cross reference companies and then if I see one I like, I contact someone I know there directly. If I have no contact there, I just apply online via one of those sites or their own site

basically, treat these sites like you do Wikipedia... IE use them as broad reference then dig into it yourself.

[DamageInc]

During a visit with a job agency , they told me they had no job openings at the moment. I asked them about the jobs on Monster and CB and they said they just throw up that stuff to get people in. Alot of the job agency postings are not actual job openings. Why I never bother with them. I only answer jobs posted by the actual company. Direct hire stuff. Indeed is probably the best. Craigslist while not the greatest anymore still ok. Just on CL there are scams.

[MSchemist80]

I find CB and Monster full of temp agency crap, for-profit colleges (when you forget to check the don't contact me about furthering your education option), MLM. Overall useless.

[Tigeru]

Some of those I don't know where they're hiding the don't contact me check mark. Then an unfamiliar number calls and its some college.

[MLSFan]

out of curiosity, what search terms are you guys using to get these kind of responses?

I search for medical technologist, and I don't really see any "fake" listings for local positions, can't say anything about non-local since I don't have a connection to those places.