Has anyone gotten a job from monster or workopolis?
Alan
anything else, and the only replies I received were from slimy primerica and
pay me $$$ to post your resume cons...
anyone get a real inquiry from these job boards after you posted your resume
there?
Alltogether, it shows that my resume has been seen 50 times, but not a
single bite...getting lots more junk mail now...so I wonder if my email addy
is being harvested, just like the bullshit jobs here...send a resume and
they have a llive adress...selling it to spammers..
Pam Marks
between. I actually got one several days ago from Monster.
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hilwerado
job board where I posted my resumé for 15 months. All I get once in a
while is spam, spam, spam, like Excel the phony phone stuff. Lately I
begin to delete my resumé from the job boards, already took it off
workopolis. Doesn't make sense to post resumés in these times.
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>
> Nope. No job offers through workopolis, no job offer through any other
> job board where I posted my resumé for 15 months. All I get once in a
> while is spam, spam, spam, like Excel the phony phone stuff. Lately I
> begin to delete my resumé from the job boards, already took it off
> workopolis. Doesn't make sense to post resumés in these times.
I've had a few calls through monster, but even if I didn't, I would
use it in another way. You can go and look to see how many times
an employer has looked at your resume. If you don't see that number
incrementing as time goes one, then you know you need to change your
job title or the position you're looking for. Either that or change
your job.
Eric Matto
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Primerica is multi-level marketing of insurance products. They could call
you if your resume is on Workopolis, and make it seem like this is a job. If
you go searching on the internet, you'll see that the average rep makes like
$1000 a year.
TWD
So they can post "fake" jobs and if someone applies, just say the
job has been filled. They get paid by the number of hits.
Not saying they all do this, just that it can be a lot.
TWD
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Harshal
keep sending me same mails everyday.. almost everyday with the same jobs
and when ever I apply... they dont even bother to return back...
As per that the campus worklink/workopolic goes... those buggers just
seek 1-2 years of experience even from recent graduates...
It seems fake to me... Hope I am wrong...
Good Luck.
- HS -
Harshal
stupid of me...
Looks like I am fustrated...
dirk
1) In the past 6 months I have had about 6 legitimate agencies call me and 4
have led to interviews with the agency including 2 with the actual client.
In both cases I was 'overqualified' even though I'll take almost anything at
this stage.
2) I have has *no* response from *any* job I applied for on Workopolis.
3) Update your workopolis resume at least once a month. Even if you make no
changes, go in and resave it so it looks fresh at the top of the list.
4) I have also had calls from Primerica. It's commision based, multi-level,
you can only sell their products, which you do thru a Financial Needs
Assessment survey with clients in their homes. Of course the FNA says that
they must buy one of Primerica's few products. If you want to sell insurance
then go thru a real broker - its a $$ better deal for you and for the
client. In both cases you have to pay & take courses to become a broker.
mbg
recently sent me a credit card that I did not apply for, which only
needed to be "activated" and then called me later to ask why I had not
yet activated my new credit card).... well, Primerica is another one of
its bastard children.
You remember in the 80s and 90s how you'd hear about these sneaky "hush
hush" pyramid schemes where they'd invite a whole load of people to sit
in a darkened room and watch some guy try to put a different spin on a
pyramid scheme on a whiteboard? That is Primerica. Only they don't
invite you right away... and they turn the lights on, so it doesn't look
so shady. They first offer you a job interview. And it's one of those
really weird phone calls where you know something's up because the
theoretical maximum possible salary is almost part of the job title.
After the job interview comes the whiteboard scenario above. They try to
spin it as a "second interview" like they're actually interested. I
think you may even have to pay them money to get started.
I made a habit of calling back anyone who offered me an interview, even
after I got a job.. but I had no qualms about ignoring every single one
of their post-interview phone calls. I did go to the first "interview"
because I didn't know any better and there weren't many other prospects
out there, but it was obvious it wasn't related to what I was looking
for from the outset -- but, as others in the group have said, sometimes
you have to try other fields :)
In short, they are interviewing you to be one of their customers. Always
remember that, and you won't be misled.
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Cristian Gheorghe
down the Toronto office. As a result, I had posted my resume on
workopolis and ...I went for holiday back home. I got a number of
leads in those three weeks, but about 2 weeks after I came back I got
an e-mail message on a Friday evening from an HR person. I got back to
her right away, Tuesday I went in for the interview, they had then
checked my references and Thursday I had signed the papers and started
a week later. Even though I had left my resume on workopolis just out
of curiosity, nobody had called me since. I think I got around 50 hits
in about 2-3 months and just a very few in the last eight months.
I know that our HR person had cancelled the workopolis subscription
since because it is not justified to spend money when there's not
hiring going on.
I think I would post the resume on workopolis or other online job
search sites, it does not hurt. As for the spam, I think you should
search the Internet to see where you mail account shows up. I really
doubt that the engines the spammers use can actually get stuff from
places like workopolis. It's only subscribing companies who have
access to this data.
Cristian
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