What is the deal with Monster.com? Really. What is the deal? Has ANYONE actually gotten a job offer as a direct result of using Monster? Because I’d really like to know. It would give me a huge boost to know that Monster has worked for someone, somewhere.

Meeting with a professional recruiter last week, we went over my resume, cover letters and application channels. There wasn’t a whole lot to change. A little tweak here, move a paragraph there. Then I brought up my Monster activity stats:

• Search cities: 2
• Job postings: 12,435
• Jobs I’ve applied to: 157
• Number of responses: 0

This gifted woman, who has placed THOUSANDS of people, turns to me and says:

“No one searches Monster to hire anyone below Director level.”

Why the hell didn’t anyone tell me this BEFORE I wasted 2 1/2 months? Why isn’t this PLASTERED on the Monster homepage, so folks like you and me can cut one more channel of BS out of the hiring process?

I know EXACTLY why. And you do, too.

Yo yo yo, my homies!

Be on the lookout for yet another eBay-specific phishing/spoof scam. Scummy scammers are now linking directly to eBay’s website in their emails, so if you click it, your eyes and your eBay Toolbar will tell you you’re on the real site. Because you are. But as soon as you log in, you will be sent somewhere very, very bad.

So if I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again – never, never, never use a link FROM AN EMAIL to log in (or enter private info) ANYWHERE. NEVER.

Check out these articles for more details. (no login necessary!)

Phishers Hack eBay
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122065,00.asp

New Techniques Used in eBay Phishing Scam:
http://www.smoothwall.net/information/news/newsitem.php?id=818

eBay Security Center:
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/stop_spoof_websites.html

eBay’s ecommerce Safety Guide: (identity theft info included, .pdf format)
http://pages.ebay.com/securitycenter/e-CommerceSafetyGuide.pdf

PayPal’s NEW Identity Theft Protection Resource Center:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/IdentityProtection-outside

and a member has posted an interesting list of current scams:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=410477782&tstart=0&mod=1108614676817

PLEASE NOTE: information in this blog is a personal commentary and is not sponsored or endorsed by eBay, inc. in any way.