The military is cruising Monster.com for recruits

[Glenda]

I got this email just now. I'm not in a healthcare field at all. Plus, don't they like people in their 60s and 70s? :)




Dear ______,

Did you know that your particular skills and interest in healthcare could serve you and your career very well in the U.S. Naval Reserve?

By joining our force, you will not only be helping your country, you'll be acquiring some of best medical training and experience available in the world. You will also receive countless benefits and rewards in exchange for a part-time commitment.

We currently have officer opportunities available for Nurses, Physicians, Dentists, as well as a variety of senior administrative and other healthcare practice positions in the Medical Service Corps. We also have enlisted opportunities for Hospital Corpsmen and Dental Technicians.

One of the greatest benefits of joining our force is that you won't have to sacrifice your personal life to serve. Your training sessions will almost always be with the Naval Reserve unit located closest to your home.

To learn more about the Naval Reserve, we encourage you to visit navalreserve.com. Or, if you would like a Naval Reserve representative to contact you directly, please click here.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Reserve? May as well sign up for active duty. You know where you

would be going.

[proud patriot]

8. The army doesn't have to give the same Benefits to reservists

the pay is less etc.... there are looking for people to
fall for the reserves instead of active army to save money.

BASTARDS

[lukasahero]

2. How do you know it came from a monster search?

Not that it would surprise me, but I just bumped my resume on monster and am wondering if I'm going to get one. What a laugh riot that would be to respond to:

Must have been that Music BA that turned you guys on to me, huh? ;-)

[Glenda]

3. The subject line was "We viewed your resume on Monster"

Let me know if you also get an email like this :)

[lukasahero]

4. Ok, well, least they're up front about it

:-)

I'll let you know. But I suspect I have very little on my resume that would interest them. Could show how pathetically desperate they are though if they actually court someone with my credentials. ;)

[Robbien]

5. How are they getting away with saying

"you won't have to sacrifice your personal life to serve"

When one has to go into battle in a land in the Middle East for twelve or eighteen months, I would call that a sacrifice of personal life.

[Glenda]

6. I found that a little odd myself...

"Oh we forgot that going to Iraq might be a sacrifice"

[Taxloss]

7. Good tone.

By which I mean it's not one of those horrible TV ads which make being in the military look like a cross between a computer game and going to university.

And it seems perfectly legitimate, even if it is indicative of a shortage of volunteers in a time of overstretch.

[Glenda]

11. Yeah, but who are they sending these emails to?

Everyone who posts their resume on Monster?

[Deja Q]

9. If I was unemployed or, better, knew I would be within a short period,

I would take them up on it.

[MADem]

10. What a MASSIVE load of HORSESHIT!!!!

"One of the greatest benefits of joining our force is that you won't have to sacrifice your personal life to serve. Your training sessions will almost always be with the Naval Reserve unit located closest to your home."

True enough....your TRAINING sessions will be close to home, but if they ACTIVATE YOUR ASS, you could be sweating in the sandbox for a year at a time, coming back to backfill a billet for some other bastard going over there, and then going back again. And they can do this to you for EIGHT YEARS, or more! And you have NO RECOURSE, nothing to say about it except Thank You Sir, May I Please Have Some More!

For those who think NAVY=Safe, think again. The USMC is part of the USN, and they need docs, nurses, corpsmen, too, and they are taking some of the worst hits. Also, in joint commands, the USN usually gets a load of the logistics/supply responsibility, and a huge chunk of the medical load, as well as a goodly share of the civil engineering tasking.

Everyone gets to play when the boyking goes to war....

[giasangria]

12. every time I search Monster.com

about 80% of the results are military jobs...no matter what profession I search. And it is usually the same job listed over and over and over with a different location as the only change. It's annoying and makes finding an actual job post very tedious...maybe they hope you just give up and reply to the military job.

[Menshevik]

13. same here

It gets really annoying. If I wanted to enlist, I would, but I don't so I would to to see the civilian jobs thank you very much