MonsterReviews 123

I run a small recruiting company and recently signed up for an expensive, one-year contract based upon a mixed, but occasionally positive experience I had with the company some years ago. Unfortunately, Monster.com's current level of advertising results and customer service is a pale shadow of what it was in the past. Most of our postings get very few resumes, period, and when resumes come in, they are very often of unqualified candidates. Some of the "resumes," in fact, are often one or two lines long! The last time I used Monster.com, they had a dedicated sales staff that provided support and guidance in how to best utilize their site. The experience this time, however, is far different. When I reached out to the company to complain about the poor experience and to seek help, I received a polite email reply promising that someone would contact me. It's now been weeks since I received that email, and despite again requesting the promised assistance, I have yet to receive a further communication from anyone at the company. Based upon my experience, I can not recommend Monster.com to anyone who wants to make productive use of their precious advertising dollars.

I signed up to Monster.com as an employer to place jobs. The website is not user friendly. Three times in a 10 days period I attempted to log in but couldn't. I called customer service and they weren't much help. After 30 days I wanted to cancel my subscription and I was told that when I signed up, I agreed to pay for three months. I never saw anywhere that I am required to stay on for three months. Overall I had a very bad experience.

First off, WAY too many ads. No matter how many times I update my profile, it won't update. Tired of doing it every time I log into the site. And don't sign up to get jobs emailed to you, because if you pick 'Forklift Operator' like me, you'll get jobs including custodian, financial manager, etc., etc. My email was FLOODED with useless jobs I wasn't interested in. I also chose relevance by date and distance, and still got jobs 40 and 50 miles away, posted weeks and months ago, when I chose within 10 miles and jobs posted most recently. I give up on this useless site.

Trying to post a job was extremely frustrating. The sales rep badgered me into signing up, not explaining that I would have to pay the second the company signed up through the website. When I explained to him that I was extremely busy for the next couple of days, he called and emailed over 10 times until I did what he asked. When I received an invoice, I expressed my concerns, since I was never told I'd have to pay. Now six months later, after talking to a number of employees at Monster, my concerns were never answered, and my bill was given to a third party.

COMPLETE MISTAKE USING THEM.

This job site may have started it all when it came to job sites. It's not what it once was. It has become poisoned by advertisements and hidden avenues to spam-city. Do yourself a favor and avoid this site.

REASONS TO USE
[1] You don't understand star-rating systems.

REASONS TO LOSE
[1] Propagates your personal data in an unpredictable way opening the door for spam
[2] Saturated with bridges to other sites
[3] There are better options

Post a job on monster.com, simply hiring a part time cashier position. Almost a month pasted no one apply. I called in customer service to cancel the posting. A rep said my posting was pending status, not active. That's why I didn't receive any resume, but yes you're right about it. I did get charge for whatever fee/views/click? As they told me my posting wasn't active.
Anyhow, today, the 4th time to contact their customer service to cancel the posting keep draining money. Wish me luck!

Starting with i had not even applied on monster.com for job opportunities but suddenly on a saturday morning i got a call from monster.com saying i have jobs that fit your profile and we will sure shot get you in one of those. It was an R&D job and she was confident that if u don't get in the first company i will make sure u get in the second one. She asked me to send some documents like CV to her via email which wasn't even of a monster.com one it was a normal gmail id and then fill the registration fees and to do that she would have to transfer my call to one of the job company and they would guide me further. She transferred the call saying that it is one of the accountant from the company and when i asked him from where was he calling he very confusingly said MONSTER.COM and asked me to make a transaction in an online private wallet by providing me his login and password. I couldn't believe he had done that with many other innocent people as i saw many different transactions to that account.
Please this is a shoutout to all the job seekers neverrrrr make online payments to these job portals.

At one time, Monster Jobs was a trustworthy job search website for professionals, but over the years it has gradually declined in quality to the point it no longer serves a real purpose for job and career seekers. These days, it seems no matter how badly or well written your resume that you post on there is, its a magnet for unwanted solicitations from insurance companies. Myself, along with many others whom I have seen complain about it, have consistently received unwanted messages from insurance companies trying to suck people into some form of dead-end sales position. Yes, this includes people like myself (whose resume is specifically outlined for healthcare services). Monster jobs have simply because a portal for spammers and scammers to infesting your email with unwanted and unpromising job offers. Its as if these recruiters actually have some commission based quota for the number of people they can get sucked into dead-end positions that are desperate for anyone to the point theres no standard on any qualifications for filing their pathetic positions that clearly no one wants.

Monster used to be the reference in term of job boards and career websites but it was years ago now.

They have become an unreliable aggregate of dubious and suspicious job "offers"

If you take time to look at it, and contact directly the companies who are supposedly recruiting, you will realise that the majority of their job "advertisements" are either outdated, online since years, or even fake.

Another thing than monster.com do is to multiply the same advert 5 to 6 times in order to make employers and job seekers think they have a lot of jobs on offer while they have few in reality (especially in 2014).

Besides having all these defaults, they also have a very deficient and limited search engine: it gives you results you don't ask for and you can't tune it a other job boards allow you to do. For example, if you want to have only job adds directly from employers and not form the employment firms publishing fake jobs to collect resumes, you just can't. Take indeed.com in comparison, where you can adjust these type of things in their search engine.

I think, monster.com is now too big to realise its own shortcomings and to change about it. It will take their competitors to overcome them before they react and start to stop taking employers and job seekers for idiots.

Wont Find Employment Here - Re: Monster.com

I do not know what happened to the Monster website or whose ideal it was to come up with these so called enhancements, but, if you are/have in fact posting your resume on the Monster website you will need to do a complete review. If you have not noticed when placing your resume on their website and saving it, the website is reformatting your entire document, i. E., your information is strewn throughout the entire document and this is the way it is in fact being received by employers.

You will be unable to correct these changes as it will continue to do the same thing over and over. As per Monster they are aware of this and it is something they are working on but they have no notice placed on their website that they are experiencing this type of dilemma.

One of their representatives even attempted to correct this problem, and it did not work. So please review your resumes in its entirety, as their problem is reformatting all of your resumes and cover letters on file.