Microsoft and Monster.com Partner to Help Job Seekers and Employers
Posted by JasonMicrosoft announces Microsoft Office and Monster.com are teaming up to help people maximize their potential for employment in a challenging economy.
How? By giving job seekers access to Office Online Career Center, a new all-in-one portal aimed at helping people find new opportunities and reach their full potential. Users can create resumes by choosing from hundreds of Microsoft Office Online resume templates and benefit from Monster’s job posting and career management tools and advice.
Monster.com will power the career tools and services on the Office Online Career Center. In addition to resume templates, job seekers can access Monster.com’s career management tools and hundreds of thousands of job openings online. Employers will benefit from the expanded access to job seekers and access to Monster’s employer tools including job description templates, the resume database and the employer resource center.
View the press release from Miscrosoft, or visit the Job Seeker Career Center.
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April 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Given that Microsoft bought a 4% equity stake in Monster competitor CareerBuilder less than 2 years ago (http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-buys-careerbuilder-google-interested-in-simplyhired-11181), this news must be pissing off CareerBuilder bigtime.
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April 1st, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Microsoft approached CB about this partnership first. CB did not see the value in this offering, and a wouldl agree. Job Board traffic is at an all time high. What does Monster hope to gain from this? As an employer, where is this going to deliver me better qualified candidates? I would prefer that they spend the money somewhere with more quantifiable returns.
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
I find this partnership very telling and that shows me that even investors in Monster’s competition are now changing their tune and working with them… They must be doing something right and I have a feeling Microsoft may know a bit more than the average Joe or average “Chris”. If you have an investment in a company, skin in the game as they say, you do not partner with the main and a larger competitor regardless of the circumstances unless you are jumping ship.
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