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For one thing, it knows its way
around a good bedtime story. But beyond that, if you ask Monster, there is
literally nothing you can’t do.
You want to be a cowboy? Of course
you can. What about an astronaut? You betcha.
Even if by the very make-up of your
DNA you lack the skills required to hold a job, Monster still has the upmost
confidence in you.
Say for example, you want to be a
cowboy, but you’re fiercely allergic to cows, denim, wide-brimmed hats and
rugged handsomeness. Monster doesn’t care. Monster wants you to follow your
cowboy dreams no matter what god or your genes have to say about it.
As part of its efforts to help
users find jobs, Monster likes to send out emails every day with a list of jobs
it assumes you’d be perfect for.
The only problem with that is
Monster’s motherly inability to filter out jobs that users are in no way
qualified for. The results of that design flaw can be equal parts funny and depressing,
with a heavy-helping of confusion worked in.
Let’s take a look at the ten most
bizarre recommendations I’ve gotten recently from Monster.
- VP National Sales, Mid-Atlantic Territory. If there’s one thing don’t want me doing, it’s selling things. Just ask Blockbuster how putting me in charge of selling stuff worked out for it. And that VP title? That’s a surefire way to put your company out of business.
- Instrumentation & Calibration Tech II. I have no idea what this even means, however, I was encouraged by the II in there. At least Monster had the good sense not to ask me to pursue a VP of Instrumentation and Calibration position. Not yet anyway.
