Craigslist is no longer an essential stop in my hiring process. I've been using it over the last few years with a few different companies, and have seen it get progressively worse. Just recently, I posted a job on Craigslist to fill a need for a web engineer position at AD:60. Over a week later and we have 19+ companies (on and off shore) and 1 woefully under-qualified applicant.

Hiring managers, does this look familiar?

What part of "Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests." don't these spammers understand? Ok, so I've accepted the fact that I'll get spam from job posts on Craigslist. And, yes, hiring is hard. I accept that also. But all spam, and no one qualified?!

The worst part is that craigslist implies that it's much better than Monster and Career Builder for the price. I'd have more faith in that assertion if the studies they cite weren't from 2000 and 2006.

Are there solutions? Does Craigslist care enough?