Comments on: a look into the ‘new’ monster

By: The Chad | Enjoy The Game » For the common good? Seriously?!?

The Chad | Enjoy The Game » For the common good? Seriously?!? — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:41:16 +0000

[...] Why are companies slow to adopt? Because many vendors are simply not innovating rather they are hanging onto old business models and afraid to change while rushing to repackage the same old deliverable and hoping their revenue streams don’t dry up. [...]

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:18:53 +0000

I have no problem with the review or the reviewer. There’s just one simple thing I need to know:
What good is a website if you can’t use it?
I’m on “old Monster”. Naturally, my bookmark takes me to my established account, but even when I do a generic search, or type Monster.com in the URL window, it always brings up my account or my page.
Still, whether I’m in “My Monster” or a home page not affiliated with my information or name, there should be some place – some button to click – some tab to pull down – some box to select – SOME THING that lets me sign up for the “New Monster” format! It would be fantastic to finally be allowed to upload my PDF resume (which I’ve been told is possible with the new site) instead of being limited to a Word document (fine for those who have access to Word).

By: Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:05:43 +0000

Geez aint anyone tough enough to insult Joel using their real name ? Always hiding- at least he bashes (when he does) as himself.

And picking on his glasses? My gawd how lame you are.

By: Monster redesign - Eggsprout perspective | eggsprout blog

Monster redesign - Eggsprout perspective | eggsprout blog — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:32:12 +0000

[...] can read more about Monster’s launch here, here, and here. To all the folk at Monster, great job – we know how hard it is to build good [...]

By: who leaves these replies?

who leaves these replies? — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:32:34 +0000

Big Angry Words… Better to advertise on an aggregator? Are you nuts? How many people outside of professional job seekers or sales personnel for the big 3 know to use Simply Hired or Indeed to find jobs?

By: BaySR

BaySR — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:35:07 +0000

I just ran a search on Monster for a sales position and the first one that came up is dated 9/3/08 (the most recent one was down around #10), the salary manager icon pulled up an IT Managers salary range, the #15 job was an Oncology Clinical Nurse and almost 1/3 of the jobs were from staffing firms. Is that an improvement???

By: formaggio

formaggio — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:54:54 +0000

cheesedik,

you have a read hardon for monster. did they piss you off, or did you just hear a lot of bad stuff from someone who worked there before but couldnt cut it?

By: Big Angry Words

Big Angry Words — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:36:02 +0000

People are still USING CareerBuilder or Monster? How quaint.

CareerBuilder is crashing and burning. Monster might have a few years where they can live off of upwards momentum.

But people are getting smart and realize that CB and Monster offer NOTHING. They are selling people thin air. Better to use an aggregator like Simply Hired or Indeed.

By: The New Monster: It’s More User Friendly, But Is That Saying Much? : ERE.net

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:30:27 +0000

[...] and comments that have sprouted since the site’s launch on Saturday. Joel Cheesman’s “Hit-and-miss” assessment of the site was unexpected, given his distaste of the big job boards. As useful a perspective as [...]

By: CB is F*CKED

CB is F*CKED — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:21:36 +0000

Looks like CB’s other big owner (Ganett) is about to file BK (they are having mandatory days off).

Seems Monster is actually putting money into the site and trying to get better and you have to expect CB is going to do the opposite.

I bet CB is sold WAY BEFORE Monster since both the Tribune Company and Gannett are going to need money