> I'm curious, though. A lot of the readers here
> are still school-age, but for those of you who
> are out in the workforce, how have you
> acquired jobs? I wonder sometimes how
> beneficial services like Monster.com really are
> anymore. Do they really help people find jobs,
> or do they simply muddy the water for
> employers, who have to wade through the
> millions of resumes that are out there to find
> the one person who is a perfect fit?

Looking back on it, every serious job I've ever had (i.e. not working in a grocery store or drugstore while going through school) has come from a posting on my university's online job board, which is only accessible to students and alumni. The limited field of potential applicants helps quite a bit, I think, although many companies will also list those jobs publically. Not all do, though.

Thinking about it now, I'm not sure that I've ever even had interviews for jobs that were in my field of training and NOT from the university job board. Of course, I never tried particularly hard on the other options -- I felt satisfied enough with the number and selection of options available to me through the job board.

> Gri"maybe they call it 'Monster' for good
> reason"shny

Don "I have no idea if you have such a board available to you, though" Monkey