CV settings in Monster.com - Location and Visibility settings

Besides uploading or deleting your CV, Monster.com gives you also the possibility to set its visibility status (if set to not visible then employers cannot see you), change the locations you are looking for a job, set the industries and positions you are looking for, indicating your salary range or the date from which you are available.

How can you do all these?

Start by managing your CV. You can find a drop down menu at the left top corner of Monster's site, once you have logged in. Click on Manage to access the CV managing menu.

If you haven't uploaded your CV you can easily do it or you can create your resume using Monster. Both options are available.

Once your CV is uploaded you can manage its settings. Just scroll down and fill in whatever you think is necessary.

Once your CV is uploaded, some settings are filled in automatically, like the location you are looking for a job. Other working locations can be selected once you have chosen that you are interested in other locations.

You can use the boxes for selecting the country you are willing to work. Remember that you'll be asked whether you are allowed to work in this country. Make sure you have found out about this in advance.

Be aware that you can upload several CVs. This is wise for uploading the same CV in different languages and making them available in different countries. For example, it is most probable that a France employer will ignore a CV written in Greek.

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Nine Things Never to Say in a Job Interview | Monster.com

This is a re-post of Monster.com original post.

When you're searching for a job, landing an interview can feel like a huge success -- and it is, but for most open positions, the interview is only one step in a long hiring process. For some jobs, dozens of people may be interviewed, and the competition will be fierce. Don't take yourself out of the competition by saying one of these job-interview killers:

1. What sort of perks do you offer? 
Save talk about benefits and perks for the negotiation stage -- that is, after you've gotten a job offer -- or until the interviewer raises the issue. (A recruiter for a large computer manufacturer relates that many interviewees ask about "how many free products" they’ll get after they’re hired. But if you ask this question, you'll never get hired.)

2. What does your company do? 
Believe it or not, recruiters and hiring managers say they get asked this question all the time. Before you go into your job interview, research what the company does, and come up with some specific ways you can help it do whatever it does better.

3. My last boss was a real %$#*!
Complaining about your last job only reflects badly on you. Even if you're telling the truth, it makes you look like a complainer and poor sport (exactly the type of person no one wants to work with). It's great to talk about challenges you faced, but the focus should be on the positive results you achieved.

4. I love your glasses.
Never compliment interviewers on their physical appearance -- doing so can come off as inappropriate or just plain creepy. Paying compliments is fine, but they should be related to the professional realm. For instance, you might want to praise a recent success the company or interviewer has had.

5. My feet are killing me!
Complaining about physical discomfort will be perceived as negativity -- or as you making excuses for not performing well in the interview. (An HR manager in Silicon Valley tells of a candidate who complained of a headache caused by "partying too hard last night." Needless to say, this candidate didn't get the job.)

6. I got fired from my last position. 
You never want to lie in a job interview -- but there are more graceful ways to explain that you were fired. "My boss and I had very different ideas about what our department should be focusing on, and it soon became clear that I'd be happier in a new role -- like this one." Keep the focus on what you learned from the past, and bring the focus back to why the job you're interviewing for is the right one for you.

7. I just want a job -- any job! 
This may very well be true, but desperation is not appealing. The interviewer needs to know that you want the particular job you're interviewing for -- and that you're a great fit for it.

8. I don't know.
If you really don't know the answer to an interview question about you or your background, try "I'll find out and get back to you by the end of the day." But if the question is about what you'd do in a hypothetical workplace situation -- or is an off-the-wall or brainteaser question such as "How many golf balls would it take to fill this room?" -- your response should show your thought process. Go ahead and think aloud: "First, I'd have to determine the volume of the room. Then I'd have to subtract the volume of the furniture.…" And so on.

9. My biggest weakness is that I work too hard.
Your interviewer knows this answer is a bunch of malarkey. So how do you answer the "what's your biggest weakness" question? Choose something not directly related to the role you're applying for that you've made positive efforts to improve. For example, you could say, "I can be nervous about speaking in front of large groups -- so I enrolled in Toastmasters and then volunteered to present some seminars at my former employer. So that's becoming less and less of a problem for me."

Monster Employment: December 2011 Index Highlights

European Online Recruitment Registers Annual Growth of
11%, According to the Monster Employment  Index


The detailed report (.pdf) can be found here

December 2011 Index Highlights:
• The Monster Employment Index Europe demonstrates a year-over-year growth of 11 percent in December,
the slowest rate of growth seen in the Index since mid- 2010
• Germany continues to report the strongest growth trend of 32 percent, followed by 6 percent growth in UK
and 4 percent in Sweden
• Belgium, France, Italy and Netherlands weigh down the Index with negative annual growth
• Engineering, up 28 percent, continues to register the largest rate of annual growth of all industries and
leads for the fourth consecutive month despite a slightly eased pace from the 32 percent annual growth
recorded in November
• Telecommunications, Production and Environment, architecture and urbanism record positive growth in
December
• Public sector, down 14 percent, continues to remain among the slowest growth industries. Legal and
Management and consulting also track annual rates of decline

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Setting the Monster to search a job for you!

Monster.com is a very powerful, well known job search engine and widely used in Europe and US. The activity of monster can be seen here.

Any candidate can make a profile, look for a job on the posted vacancies and apply for FREE while the employers or recruiters have to pay a fee in order to access a candidate’s CV.

When visiting the site for the first time, the candidate is able to choose from a number of monster sites around the globe, but I would suggest using the standard one at http://www.monster.com/

Before starting make sure you have finished your CV and that you have it in a format in which you can easily copy-paste text, so you don’t have to type it again.

Tip: if you CV is written in MSWord, copy the whole document (Ctrl-A & Ctrl-C) and paste it (Ctrl-V) at new Notepad document. Then use the text from Notepad.

Do not get disappointed by the amount of time you might need for completing your profile. It might take up to a hour, but believe me it worth’s it.

Once you’re done with filling in all information, upload your CV in MSWord format.

Tip: Make sure that your document can be accessed by MSWord of PDF reader. A less used document format, like OpenOffice document, will require extra effort from the one who wants to read it and as people are usually lazy, they won’t put this extra effort...

Select the countries you want your CV to be visible and indicate whether you need a working permit for the indicated countries (for the 15 EU countries, EU15 citizen’s do not need a working permit). Also indicate that the CV should be visible to all (Public).

Benefits of using Monster.com:

• Once you have a completed profile, you can just sit back and wait until someone contacts you for extra information or for an interview
• You can set up and configure to 5 agents (automated searches) to report to you daily, weekly, biweekly and so on, via email
• You can Create (or upload), store and edit up to 10 resumes/CVs and 5 cover letters
• You can see how many people have accessed your CV so far (when the visibility is set to Private and then back to Public or when a new CV is uploaded, the counter resets)
• You can search based on Location (continent, country, state, county, city, postcode, etc.) occupations (up to 20), type of employment (full time, part time, temporary, work from home, etc.), keywords, industries (up to 20)
• It offers free monthly newsletters, tutorials, a site demo, a help center and much more