Monster does it again

Monster is changing their model: http://www.ere.net/2014/05/14/monsters-new-strategy-agggregate-all-the-jobs-pay-for-performance-broaden-candidate-base/ While this may encourage smaller businesses to use Monster, it probably doesn't help candidates or recruiters tremendously. A bigger database of resumes and a wider scraping of job postings does not improve the effectiveness or efficiency of a job board. If they've improved the internal search capability within the site, this may be something to write home about. Otherwise, for recruiters of all stripes, this is a non-event.

Remember the basics

Your LinkedIn profile and your resume are great tools, but only is they are crisp, to the point, and free of typos and chronological errors. These are things that bug most recruiters and bother Silicon Valley headhunters even more. If you can't attend the basics, you're probably not a very good candidate generally. And this applies to software developers just as much - if you make mistakes on your resume, your code is probably not error-free either. So, proof-read, proof-read, and then put it down and proof it again later. Better still, ask someone else to proof it a third time. It is worth the effort, I promise.