This past weekend I spent a while on Workopolis and Monster.ca, carefully filling out all my info, uploading my resume, setting up job alerts, etc. Saying I graduate in April (and can thus start April/May ’06), filling out all my relevant employment history, the type of job I’m looking for, all that good stuff. You know.
Today, my phone rings and interrupts my studying time. It’s an unfamiliar number, so I let it go to voicemail.
I listen to the message.
It’s an offer for an interview!
…
… for a call center in Cambridge. D’oh.
As Josh pointed out, though, at least I know the system works, and that potential employers can contact me if they need to.
In semi-related news, I have a really cool Super Mario Bros. ringtone.
In unrelated news, I’m just going to assume no one who reads this blog still uses IE, since no one has said anything. Good.
In my experience, you’ll get a lot of crap opportunities. Some of it on the level of spam. But Josh is correct: atleast the system works. Good call on putting up your profile so far ahead. It definitely took a long time before I started receiving anything remotely interesting.
I had one person contact me (after I already had a job) to hire me as a php tester. Only they didn’t provide any information about job, nor the employer (i.e. a person contacted on behalf of some undefined entity looking for me to do… something with php) :-