Monster.com is a recruiting tool now.

[Career Prole]

I'd gotten used to the ad for sundry things when logging on to look for better jobs and clicking the "No, Thanks" button at the bottom, but this time It was an Army recruiting contact form, already filled in with my personal contact information, and a single button "submit info" option with the "Yes, please have an Army recruiter contact me" pre-selected.

(Screen cap with personal info cropped out below).

I consider this use of my personal info highly objectionable and have informed Monster.com of same. :grr:

Has anyone else experienced this?

[liberal N proud]

1. How likely are you to consider joining?

has NEVER crossed your mind?

Ethnic Background sounds like some civil rights violation.

They also need one more radio button on the bottom, FUCK OFF

[Career Prole]

8. Ethnic background and age/education weren't filled in.

They do need that extra radio button though. :grr:

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Have you ever used monster.com?

How would they get your info, unless maybe
1) you had used them in the past and submitted your personal info?
2) your computer has been hacked?

At any rate, this sounds like a story from bizarro world! Very strange, unnerving and freaky! And all from an ad...

BTW, are you "draft" age?

[DJ MEW]

3. Windows will auto fill

form pages with the data that you have in your registry sometimes.

Monster also requires you to register if you want to store your resume on their website. It sounds like the army bought everyones personal information off monster and then asks everyone that visits if the army can contact you.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. It just gave me pause to think

that MAYBE the US Gov't is hacking into those who registered through the S.S. at age 18 :shrug:

[Career Prole]

12. *sigh* So much for Monster then.

I'll find my dream job some other way.
(probably in some other country)
Welcome to DU, by the way! :hi:

[Career Prole]

5. Yes. Looking for work in the blue part of the country.

But all the other ads they've used didn't have my name, address, e-mail, phone number, and "Yes, contact me" filled in already.
The others didn't even ask for information. They were just...ads.
:shrug:

[Career Prole]

10. Oops...missed the draft age question. Heck, no!

Er...I mean, at least not this year.
At the end of the 60's I worried about reaching draft age.
Now it's 2005 and I have to worry about the draft age reaching me!
Fortunately it hasn't passed fifty yet and I have. :)

[elehhhhna]

4. ethnic background? OOPSIE! Oh no they didn't ask that on a hiring site!

[Career Prole]

7. No. It just had the contact information pre-filled.

I sure wouldn't want the damned Army to know I'm a Venusian...I have enough problems as it is! ;)

[whatever4]

9. Don't think I'm too awful

for wanting them to hurry and snatch up this so-and-so neighbor college kid of mine. Fine neocon, he told my 12 year old he'd run him over with his car. 'Cause he doesn't like him. All I could think was...you need to go to Iraq.

He isn't very bright, and likes to use firecrackers on small, helpless animals...he ought to be in soon, don't you think? He's got too many body parts, but I'd get in trouble if I helped him with that.

I don't mean to rant, but I can't see the likes of him being very able to resist the more persistant recruiters. Like what you saw in Monster. This kid was the first thing I thought of. For a lot of youngsters, they'll fall for it.

[Career Prole]

13. Best of luck to him...

...in his new career! :toast:

[mtnester]

11. Every job listing you search for in any location returns the first lines

of the listing as the Army, Marines, or National Guard.


Be a chef, be a landscaper...the armed services have paid to be on the top of every list, within any word combination.

I told my hubby that, he said no way, until I showed him...he just shook his head...

And some of them were very sneaky too.

[Career Prole]

14. Damn!

Our tax dollars at work!
Gee...I wonder if they take out ads in Barron's? :sarcasm: