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I agree...I found Dice to be nearly useless (except for their online resume
URL feature). I used it from December through February and saw very few TW
job listings...nearly everything was for programmers or sysadmins, etc. I
had much better luck with Monster, ComputerJobs, and Headhunter.
Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> My husband had the opposite luck with Dice -- he placed his
> resume up and
> was bombarded by 100 email and 100 calls in a *week*. Most of
> which were
> rude recruiters, and most of which had jobs that didn't
> remotely match up
> to what he plainly stated he was looking for. In fact, he
> wasn't nearly
> qualified for most of them, because they didn't have anything
> to do with
> what he does!
>
> He was looking for a job as a web developer and had people throwing
> interviews at him for either admins or programmers (in
> languages he doesn't
> know!).
>
> -Katie
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