What Do You Want in a Job Website?

antifoidulus asks: "After reading some complaints about monster.com from both the perspectives of job seekers and employers it struck me as how, even in 2006, most job sites are incredibly poor at what they do. So I ask my fellow Slashdot readers, both job seekers and employers, what do you really want in a jobs web site? What features are totally lacking in the current crop? Also, what aspects of the current systems do you love/hate?"

I want...

[Anonymous Coward]

...naked recruiters!

Re:To be blunt...

[Fosnez]

1) Less recruiting companies because they just seem to be statistic generating companies that are sampling the number of people looking for jobs in an industrial area. 2) Don't spam me OFFERING me a job, then not reply when I send you me CV.

Customizable CVs

[kerouacsgp]

For once, I hope I can see a site that allows me to fully customize my CV, but not through a standardized web form.

Re:To be blunt...

[needacoolnickname]

I couldn't find a moderation category for Hell Yeah!

I want...

[Anonymous Coward]

A job that pays me to tastes coffee and doughnuts with a good wage, benefits and an early retirement plan.

Cluefullness for job requirements

[Alien54]

none of these jobs that go like this:

Entry level position, must have 5 years experience in .net 2.0, 4 years in perl 6, ....

and so on for an absurd laundry list of arbitrary skils which tell me that the people hiring are either clueless or insane.

Re:I want...

[themoodykid]

Hmmm. Have you considered a career in Law Enforcement?

Re:nah...

[NeoBlazeSJX]

What state is that in?

Re:this is not a fault of the search engine

[AnonymousKev]

I hear ya friend. One time I was having trouble with a table in a TeX document and (without thinking) Googled "LaTeX command table" for help.

The results were neither pretty, nor work-safe.

Re:Stop harrassing your recruiter!!!

[Intron]

We know that not all headhunters are scum. Its just that the 99% who are give the other 1% a bad name.

Re:SCAMs

[brassman]

I get modeling agencies. Honestly, from Monster!

I was going to post "Monster, why are you sending me jobs in 'USED-CAR SALES' when I put in 'LINUX SYSADMIN'? You're supposed to send those to people who want to be a 'WINDOWS ADMIN'!"

...but modeling agencies? Dang, you win.

Re:this is not a fault of the search engine

[sydb]

Well, here in the UK the only document I've ever heard people talking about (in my 33 years) is the CV and it doesn't have to be long or detailed. Americans are the only people I have heard talking or writing about resumes.

Re:To be blunt...

[neuroticia]

Hah. By posting that on Slashdot, you just ensured that your preferred job board now has more programmers than jobs.