I currently have my profile on CB but it's not visible. When it was visible, last year, I got about 2-3 messages per day. Is this comparable to what you
were seeing? Most of them seemed legitimate. I guess I just didn't pay any attention to anything which looked off, I didn't notice anything like MLM
schemes. Not that I don't believe you - it doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is pointing out CB in particular. I would imagine this kind of
spam would be difficult to filter out for any job board, Dice or Monster etc.
The legitimate ads I got from CB were most often not suitable; wrong skill list. I assumed they were spamming based on keyword. ("Send this ad to everyone having keyword 'Java'"). Still, like I said, I did get good job ads. I used CB almost entirely, never bothered with updating my profile on Monster or Dice since I figured there'd be a huge amount of overlap. I did use some other services: jobcircle and jobster.
I got a nibble from a jobcircle ad for a contract position, but later I saw the same ad on lots of other job boards.
The legitimate ads I got from CB were most often not suitable; wrong skill list. I assumed they were spamming based on keyword. ("Send this ad to everyone having keyword 'Java'"). Still, like I said, I did get good job ads. I used CB almost entirely, never bothered with updating my profile on Monster or Dice since I figured there'd be a huge amount of overlap. I did use some other services: jobcircle and jobster.
I got a nibble from a jobcircle ad for a contract position, but later I saw the same ad on lots of other job boards.
