Monster.com Promises to Revolutionize Online Recruiting on 01-10-09
Posted by Jason
01-10-09: The countdown has begun.
After 14 years since its’ inception, Monster.com is announcing plans to change the rules with online recruiting.
The company has stated, “We are reinventing the Monster Seeker and Employer experience, using patent-pending technologies to create new, never-before-seen products and services.”
During the company’s Q2 financial earnings call, Monster.com CEO Sal Iannuzzi announced plans to revamp the site. Since then, Monster has also completed the acquisition of China HR in a move to bolster its’ global presence. In the most recent Q3 financial earnings call last week, Iannuzzi stated, “We are very confident in the company’s long-term potential.”
So, what big changes are in store for 01-10-09? Monster is calling it a whole new experience.
For candidates, Monster claims it is creating a user-centric experience. Specifically:
- Creating an easier process for candidates to post resumes and search jobs, including 50% less time required to sign up on the job site
- Launching new applications that will transform Monster.com from a job board to a true career resource. The new Career Management applications will enable Seekers to research alternative career opportunities, empowering them with valuable knowledge about their current careers, related positions, and potential next steps.
- Explore new career paths of interest, illuminating the different avenues they can take to reach their goals and make informed decisions about how to get there.
- Candidates can benchmark themselves with others in the market
For Employers and Recruiters, the overhaul is positioned as a way for the site to provide you with more possible candidates—and better ways to reach them. In addition to:
- Helping you achieve the biggest return on investment for your recruiting budget.
- New products and services to showcase your company and build brand awareness among both active and passive Seekers.
- Gaining valuable insights into what is important to Seekers, so you can tailor your postings to attract today’s top talent.
- An all-new Employer experience that uses new techniques to provide you with a more intuitive and efficient recruiting process.
- Innovative products, such as Monster Career Ad Network, give you the power to showcase your postings where Seekers live online.
- A strategic and powerful approach to managing your human capital sourcing needs.
- New tools and services that fit the way you recruit, making your life—and reaching your hiring goals—a bit easier.
- Being the number one job resource for the best talent, from around the corner and across
the globe.
- Growing the audience it presents to you, including job seekers who aren’t actively looking for a job—until they see yours.
These are big promises from a site (and industry) that has frustrated both Candidates and Recruiters. If the changes are anything close to how they have been positioned, they will be welcomed with open arms.
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November 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
This is great news for job searchers and career management professionals like myself who contribute to Monster.
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November 15th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
[...] Jason Buss meldde op 3 november het volgende:The company has stated, “We are reinventing the Monster Seeker and Employer experience, using patent-pending technologies to create new, never-before-seen products and services.” [...]
January 8th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
CareerBuilder.com continues to be the thought leader for the recruitment industry through both successful and testing times in our economy. We continuously strive to create results for both our job seekers and employers, while providing a seamless customer experience. While we have been in the market with our own revolutionary matching technology for 5 years, Monster is paying and playing to catch up by outsourcing their technology through acquisition.
Our focus is on our customers, and our goal remains the same: to simplify the job search and recruiting process while making it easy for candidates and employers to connect this – and every – season.
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June 4th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Six months of disastrous performance from an obviously untested application, here’s my email to monster.com:
Dear Sal,
Thank you for taking the time to read my note. As a customer of monster.com, I am reaching out to you in regards the apparent issues with the monster application and user interface upgrades since January of ’09.
From a historical standpoint, I have been utilizing Monster as a professional since, well before it was monster. My first experiences utilizing job boards were related to FTP sites, then the Online Career Center (the Free Monster), and then of course monster.com. Over the years I have purchased the license for staffs as small as 5 and up to 100 staff people.
I am a power user and have utilized all of the predominant resume/job boards since their inception. They include: Monster, Dice, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs, Linkedin and others. During my fifteen plus years of using a range of boards, monster was always the leaders in “getting the job done” and always surpassed the other boards in usability. Until now.
All of the boards have made positive modifications, enhancements and improvements to their sites over the years with mostly positive results. Monster had that success until its’ most recent modification, upgrades and enhancements in January of 2009.
Sal, frankly, the changes made to the employer site have been nothing short of disastrous. I have personally worked with and spent time with your product development team by conference call to assist them and outline the performance issues, the bugs, and the inconsistencies of the application, but there have been truly no changes.
As a business owner and user of your product, I’m very disappointed to see any leader in their field make significant changes in their product or service delivery, for no apparent reason, and bring their competitive level to that of or below their competitors.
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