Monster.com Review

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Monster.com Review

Monster.com is an employment website based in the United States which is owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. Monster.com is primarily used to help those seeking work to find job openings, for lower to mid-level employment, that match their skills and location.

 

Monster.com Review: The Company Details

Monster.com is one of the most trafficked employment websites in the United States as ranked by Alexa. In October 2010, Indeed.com passed Monster.com to become the largest job site in the United States. A provider of rankings of the amount of unique viewers per month—comScore Inc—in January 2013, ranks Monster.com third behind Indeed.com and Careerbuilder.com, which is not far behind Indeed.com. Monster.com is one of the largest job search engines in the world. In 2008, Monster.com had over a million job postings at any time and over 1 million resumes, in the database and over 63 million job seekers per month. The company has approximately 5,000 employees on its payroll in 36 countries. Monster.com is headquartered is in Weston, MA in the United States.

Monster.com Review: Features For Employees

Comprehensive career resources

When it comes to providing resources to further your career beyond a simple job search, Monster.com excels. The Top Articles and Career Advice section is a good place to start if you’re researching different careers. Once you have zeroed in on a type of job, use the Salary calculator to research how much companies pay for that job in different geographic areas. Finally, use the resume resources to review, revise, and fine-tune your resume before you send it out. These are just few of many resources Monster.com offers to help you explore your career options and facilitate the search process.

Direct application through convenient portal

By displaying many of their own job postings — rather than scraping them from other sites — Monster.com is able to streamline the application process for multiple postings. You can create a Monster.com profile and upload different resumes to your profile. For many job postings, you can click one button to apply with your Monster.com profile instead of repeatedly filling out the same information on different portals. This simple feature saves countless hours of repetitive work.

Ability to connect your LinkedIn profile

Another way to save time during the application process is to leverage your public LinkedIn profile. Just add your LinkedIn URL into the designated field and any information you update on LinkedIn reflects on your Monster.com LinkedIn widget. LinkedIn is fast becoming one of the most common ways recruiters find information about candidates. Having that information handy when applying for a job can give you a leg up on other applicants.

My Resume Agent Premium service

monster.com-resumes-learn-moreYou will find that some job fields, such as sales, are dominated by recruiters. Getting a leg up can be a challenge because recruiters are often not easy to find. Fortunately, Monster.com has a vast network of recruiters to connect with. The My Resume Agent sends your resume to influential recruiters in your industry to help ensure you’re seen by the right employers. This premium service costs $68, which is a one-time fee.

 

Monster.com Review: Features For Employers

 

Monster.com Job Ads and Social Ads.

monster-employer-learn-more Monster.com Job Ads and Social Job Ads do the recruiting for you. Posting Job Ads to Monster.com is a streamlined process that is quick and easy. Monster.com reaches talent wherever they are – on Monster.com, on social, on mobile or across our network of thousands of partner sites, and provides precise targeting to put you in front of the right people with the right skills – even if they aren’t looking for a job.

Power Resume Search and Recruitment Tools.

Monster.com Search provides industry-leading, natural language search and recruitment tools to connect you with the right employees, who have been automatically matched, ranked, and scored based on your hiring requirements. The Power Resume Search tool on Monster.com doesn’t require Boolean Logic knowledge and understands the meaning of words. Monster.com supplies you with powerful tools to search and manage your candidates directly from your account.