Monster www.monster.com

Applied for many jobs, never get any response from the recruiter. It shows many irrelevant jobs.

I had applied for a job through the monster.com, I didn't get any response till now. It shows the irrelevant job of my profile. I am totally disappointed.

Just like other job boards they advertise fake jobs, wouldnt use them again.

They show so many vacancies on their portal. I applied for so many of them but never once I got a call back or any kind of response from them.

I had canceled my profile on Monster years for a while ago and still get recruiters emailing me for roles I'm not even interested in.

Signed up for a position as an engineer; I'm graduating in May. Have been bombarded with calls (YES, THESE PEOPLE ARE CALLING ME) from companies trying to hire insurance reps, claims adjusters, and McDonalds fry cooks. DO NOT GIVE THESE IDIOTS YOUR PHONE NUMBER!!!! How are they still in business???

Avoid this company, they are only interested in wringing as much money as possible out of you, with sales people masquerading as customer support, they have no regard for your goals or needs, only what they can extract from your wallet. An absolute waste of time, money and effort.

Monster have been trying to win our business for ages. Finally we decided to give them a go.

The warning bells should have started ringing when the "account manager" tried to sell us a package for £500 that was available direct on their website for £150.

The number and quality of cvs received has been abysmal.

Also, their advertising is bordering on outright lying. Their partner network where "Job posted across 100s of partner websites" in fact means that they will buy cookie driven banner advertising on websites such as ebay that have no relevance to finding candidates whatsoever.

Fortunately we were wary and only purchased one job advert with Monster. We will not be using them again.

The website is not user friendly. The results produced are not relevant. After 2 days of trying to reset password, I spent 1/2 hour on phone with rep to figure out it was something on their side, spent another 1/2 hour w rep trying to post position because the "inventory" wasn't loaded, once loaded it gave me 20 resumes for a job field that was irrelevant. Highly disappointed!

You'd be better off pouring your money down the drain

Having previously used Reed to place job adverts, I was constantly being approached by Monster to try out their alternative service, which I eventually took them up on and purchased 5 advert tokens.

I am writing this review after placing my second advert and the best advice I could give any employers looking to recruit staff via online job postings, would be, stay well clear of Monster, not only will you get no responses, but the level of service leaves everything to be desired.

I initially started to have misgivings soon after placing the order when I didn't receive the log-in details until I chased them up with the sales team, as they had input both mine and my company details into their CRM incorrectly, unsurprisingly the invoice found its way to me immediately though, go figure.

I was told that I would have access to an Account Manager by the salesperson that sold to me, to advise me on any adverts I was looking to place, to ensure I got as many hits as possible, but when it came time to place my advert, the Account Manager assigned to me wasn't available, so having placed jobs on alternative sites previously, we went ahead and placed it anyway as it had previously generated over 20 applicants.

When we still hadn't received an applicant 24 hours later, we decided to go and search for the job listing online and to our surprise, irrespective of the search criteria we used, we appeared no sooner than on page 6. At this point I really wanted to speak to our Account Manager, as I thought this was probably something to do with the way that we'd placed the advert and not anything to do with Monster, so I contacted both him direct and also to the sales representative that had sold me the tokens in the first place.

It took a further 5 days and me sending an email saying how unhappy I was with the response and the level of service until I eventually heard from my Account Manager, who said he’d tried to call me and left numerous messages with colleagues to call him back, frankly this felt like a lie so I checked our call monitoring system and unsurprisingly there was no record of him ever calling. When I pulled him on this, he just said, look the idea is to get your advert sorted, so shall we move onto that and subsequently went through the advert and said he couldn't see any improvements could be made (Still no replies to the job advert).

At this point I realised that I had made a terrible mistake and sent an email into all concerned parties, stating that I wanted to cancel the contract with them. Strangely I received a call back from one of the Managers immediately saying that they wanted to keep my business and trying to convince me to stay. I explained that I had no faith in the service and therefore my mind couldn't be changed, but he asked me to sleep on it. When we spoke again the next day I confirmed that I still wanted to cancel, which he seemed to take on the chin and said he'd get me a revised invoice sent out. So imagine my surprise when I didn't receive the promised invoice and upon chasing the manager for it, he accused me of lying about our previous conversation.

I am still using the credits I purchased from Monster, as they are paid for and over 2 adverts I have had one totally unacceptable applicant.

Save your money and steer well clear of them.

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