Comments on: screw jobs! monster wants to sell phones, lipstick

By: AGIRLWITHACLUE

AGIRLWITHACLUE — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:24:50 +0000

Actually Monster has sold Beer. The architect of all of these kinds of intrusions into the purity of the career site is Mark Stoever. Some how this empty suit has managed to hold his ground at Monster. He is a born liar and fits in well with the Sal Ianuzzi culture. This is a “yes man” who will do whatever is necessary to survive.

By: Mnstman

Mnstman — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:50:09 +0000

This was a fake phishing e-mail. But thanks for bashing Monster without knowing what you are talkiong about.

By: SS

SS — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:14:00 +0000

The constant berating of monster is getting a little old. So you don’t like them, big deal. They’re not exactly the Titanic..tens of millions of candidates and thousands of employers find a hell of a lot of value in them. So they’re partnering, looking for revenue streams…what exactly is wrong with that? Stop looking for reasons to hate them and realize that all being said, they do still have a lot of value.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:03:46 +0000

I think job sites are great, particularly those that have real jobs listed on them!

I do however agree that sometimes these companies actually forget what business they are in. In Australia for instance the largest job sites are owned by the largest media companies. As a result they are in the listings business, and work on getting the largest volume of listings they can; as we have seen they don’t have to have a job focus to be a jobs site. When you visit these job sites the same deal as with Monster; they are trying to sell you a business, a house, a car and who knows what else, when all you actually want to do is look for a job.

Knowing what business you are in and what your audience want are rather important.

By: Max The Fly

Max The Fly — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:14:46 +0000

Why so much bitterness towards Monster Jerry and others? Hard to understand that kind of angst – it’s like the old Howard Stern message – if you don’t like it turn off the radio – if you get no value from Monster, don’t use them – and allow the rest of the millions that do get value there continue on their merry way – job boards are a valuable job seeker tool – no getting around that!

By: Jerry C

Jerry C — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:32:34 +0000

It has officially come full circle. Classified ads in print newspapers have more value to job posters and job seekers than Monster does.

There are many great job boards out there. Monster is not one of them. I am surprised they are not sinking even faster than they already are, to be honest.

By: eric shannon

eric shannon — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:44:46 +0000

that is an award winner. I was surprised to find out recently that careerbuilder seems to be following in monster’s path. one of our managers is leaving the company after five years and she activated her resume on both of these boards. she blogged about what happened here http://www.hispanicjobs.info/i-am-leaving-the-company-but-i-love-our-product-more-than-ever/

recruiter spam can be almost as disrespectful

By: Max The Fly

Max The Fly — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:18:15 +0000

I don’t buy that this email was sent to an “employer” customer at the Monster. That would be a B-School targeting F, but if this is a consumer, job seeker customer of Monster, it is not really that bad a test to see if the monster brand strength applies to other areas – think Amazon perhaps?

By: Toby Dayton

Toby Dayton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:06:56 +0000

I knew you couldn’t abstain from bashing Monster for too long, though I would have lost the over/under bet on 30 days – I would have predicted you’d be able to refrain for at least 6 weeks. It’s much like my inability to stop criticizing the daily newspapers – even though the targets are becoming easier and easier every day to shoot at and the critiques are becoming less and less sporting, their actions are just too dumbfounding to go without comment. Your post is clearly another sign that Monster is becoming increasingly desperate to find alternative revenue streams to prop up a failing business and a withering value proposition.

By: Chrisr

Chrisr — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:22:01 +0000

When is a job board not a job board? When they do crap like this…