Apr 19, 2016 05:09 PM
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(Updated Apr 19, 2016 05:09 PM)
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companies who are supposedly recruiting, you will realise that the majority of their job "advertisements" are either outdated, online since years, or even fake.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.
