From my sample set of 20 and 30-year olds, I know of no one who uses Monster.com.
I signed up years and years ago back when it was new and popular, but never actually used it for a job.
I now only know it exists thanks to those ads that I avoid and the many emails that appear in my Spam folder.
I know it had it’s popularity, but again, it seems kinda like a dead site, sort of like MySpace or such.
I’ve certainly used it in all my job searches in recent years.
Judging from the number of calls I’m still getting from headhunters who say they saw my resume on Monster, they evidently still use it, too.
To tell the truth, though, I’m not sure if I ever actually got a job through Monster. But it certainly helped me keep up my quota of job searches, so there’s no doubt that it was useful.
The public site is just a small part of their business. Companies use Monster for their processes. Look on many HR websites and you’ll see “powered by Monster” at the bottom.
I’m not in the age group you mentioned. But I do get a ton of calls from headhunters who say they saw my resume on Monster. If 20 and 30 year olds aren’t using it, maybe they should be.
I get a lot of emails from companies on Monster.
They’re all sales positions, which I won’t even entertain. It doesn’t help that my background is actually insurance.
I generally get one or two interview offers a month from Monster. I got my last two jobs from Monster.
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Monster has been a far far better resource for me than LinkedIn.
To be honest, I’ve no idea why I even bother with a LinkedIn profile.
Same here. I keep waiting for someone to explain to me why it’s so great.
That’s pretty much my belief too. What’s funny is that I have been employed by the same company for over 10 years now; and I still get calls saying they saw my resume on Monster, asking if I’m interested in either being an assembler (TPF) programming language position (last done in the 1990s), or a Java programming position (last done in the 2000s).
On a related enough topic to hopefully not be considered hijacking this thread; I’d like to include “Dice.com” along with the OP’s question. Back in the day; Dice.com was place to go to for tech jobs. Is that still the case?
There are the usuals who will chime in about how wonderful it is in finding tech jobs in the Valley, or other niche job markets.
But IMHO it’s just another “business networking” tool primarily designed to give the insurance and financial services toads a channel to churn. Like most Chambers and Downtown Business Associations and the like - the networking is all on the part of the commission-driven types.
(I find all such groupings less useful than most in that these swarms of commission-ers can’t even use my services in return, since all such is done by corporate HQ.)
This. I am heads-and-tails in the middle of job searching and the only time I hear from anything Monster its spam emails to run a franchise and calls from a city I lived in 10 years ago (and is no where on my profile) to sell insurance.
I’ve graduated to indeed now.
I don’t have a personal website where I can feature a lot of my writing, so I use Linkedin as my “if you want to see more of what I’ve done, find me on Linkedin and I have plenty more there” kind of deal. Plus, I do get looks from time to time so other people use it too apparently
Ageed. People do look. More often than not it’s recruiters that are looking to connect with you and add you to their network. Which I think they think makes them look professional and well connected, but does nothing for me.
More often than not, when people talk about other people in the workplace, they mention so-and-so’s work history they dug up on LinkedIn as a way to alternatively boast about or jab at the other guy’s work creds. Seems like a tool that serves to feed the gossip mill more than invite professional opportunities.
But that’s just my experience with it over the years. Admitedly, I spend very little time with it and would probably benefit from a more thorough review to see if things have improved as far as exploring new work opportunities.