Working with monster.co.uk WSDL - c#

I am a learner developer working on a project where I am required to post vacancies from our .Net based website to monster.co.uk but I have no idea as how to achieve this. This is my virtually my first project of XML (WSDL) integration. Here is what I have tried so far:
Create a reference to the desired WSDL file from monster.co.uk which is exposed at http://schemas.monster.com/current/WSDL/. But once the the objects are created in my Visual Studio project, I get stuck and don't know how to proceed from there. I consulted a couple of folks I thought may be able to help but in-vain. The documentation from monster is available from here http://doc.monster.com/real-time-posting.
I know I am asking for really basic stuff and should have been able to sort it out myself but have wasted 3 weeks and am no where. Please help!

I haven't read it in detail but from the second link with the documention my approach would be:
-Decide which Real Time Posting features to implement by reviewing the "Development Considerations" section of this guide.
Read the section and decide what are you going to use
Create the XML job posting by using the instructions in this guide and samples located in Monster's webservices toolkit
It seems you'll have to create a xml. First thing comes to mind is using a XmlDocument object and adding Nodes to it. But you may want to check other answers as there's different ways to do this. Create the xml in the format specified by Monster, you can check the samples they give to know how to do it
Validate XML using the toolkit.
(http://integrations.monster.com/Toolkit)
Go to the toolkit ulr and input the xml you are generating to check is correct
Test posting a job from your application (Applicant Tracking System, etc).
You do this calling methods from the Web service(e.g.: UpdateJobs) with your generated xml
Review the job posting response, make the necessary changes and
retest.
Check the testing section at the end. It says you can post into the demo board for you test.
Once the test cycle is complete, transition to production using the steps outlined in the "Deployment" section of this guide.
Once you are happy with the testing in UAT read this to know how to release to production.
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EDIT to add more info after question was clarified
I understand the problem now. I added a Web service reference to https://gateway.monster.com:8443/bgwBroker and in the object that returns I can see a lot of data structures. However I was able to find a BusinessGatewayInterface that has the needed operations. Check the code below. I am sure it is not what you need but it may give you an idea of what to do. Then it will be an issue of exploring the Web service reference until you find what you need.
Also it seems it won't be needed to parse the xml directly but instead there are typed data structures that can be populated. Sorry I didn't realized that the first I looked into it
Job job = new Job();
UpdateJobRequest updateJobRequest = new UpdateJobRequest();
//populate job info here
updateJobRequest.Job = job;
ServiceReference1.BusinessGatewayInterface gateway = new BusinessGatewayInterfaceClient();
gateway.UpdateJob(updateJobRequest);

MonsterBusinessGatewayService gateway = new MonsterBusinessGatewayService();
gateway.Url = "https://208.71.198.74:8443/bgwBroker";
gateway.Proxy = proxy;
proxy.Credentials = cre;
gateway.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
gateway.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
gateway.Security = security;
security.UsernameToken = user;
user.Password = pass;
gateway.Security.UsernameToken.Username = "xtestxftp";
gateway.Security.UsernameToken.Password.Value = "ftp12345";
Job job = new Job();
JobsResponse jobresp = gateway.UpdateJob(job);
I'm working with Monster real time and I implemented this code to send request to Monster Business Gateway. May this can help also

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