Should I Post a Job Ad on Monster.com?
If you post on Monster, you will get a TON of resumes and most of them will have NOTHING to do with your job opening. In fact most of them will not be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship. I think long and hard before posting on Monster because the resulting resume storm is usually like getting the haystack dumped on you. If you have time go looking for the needle, you’ll be happy. If not, it’s better to network the job and/or put it on more specialized job boards. The other thing you can do is to put very high barriers to entry on the Monster ad, so people can’t just “click to apply.” This will seperate the serious from the windowshoppers or desperate-but-not-what-you asked-for.
