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I'm not sure where Monster fits nowadays. Indeed does a pretty good job of crawling job postings directly, and LinkedIn gets a lot of recruiters as well as pri

I'm not sure where Monster fits nowadays. Indeed does a pretty good job of crawling job postings directly, and LinkedIn gets a lot of recruiters as well as principals. Are Monster/Dice/CareerBuilder just places where recruiters go when they don't want to pay LinkedIn prices? My impression is that not very many companies use these sites directly any more. Interestingly, my zombie monster resume from 10 years ago still gets me the occasional inquiry for things I used to do 10 years ago.

donretag 10y ago
Sometimes those zombie resumes are hard to delete. Even with the advent of LinkedIn, recruiters will still use knowingly outdated information. I guess it is just a numbers game for recruiters. http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-job-profile.html http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-jo...
jeffmould 10y ago
I run a couple job boards and we tested doing some backfill from Monster at one time. The quality of the postings was horrible. Between them and CareerBuilder we mainly received "work from home", "avon", "mary kay" and "get rich quick" jobs. We could have filtered further, but then we were left with only a few valid results. We ended up not using either. It seems over the past few years they both went for quantity over quality. Indeed's API sucks compared to some of the others, their payouts to partners are horrible, but at least they have a good array of jobs. SimplyHired did a good job, but it seems over the last year they just gave up. Their partner help was non-existant, and their API was in bad need of an overhaul, although it was a well-rounded API and allowed some highly specific niche searches (i.e searching via O*NET codes). Now they are Indeed so that wiped them out of our arsenal. We are left with ZipRecruiter, which in my opinion has one of the best teams to work with. They are not only easy to work with, but super friendly and knowledgable. Mainly they want to see their partners succeed which is a huge benefit for everyone involved.

donretag 10y ago

Sometimes those zombie resumes are hard to delete. Even with the advent of LinkedIn, recruiters will still use knowingly outdated information. I guess it is just a numbers game for recruiters. http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-job-profile.html http://blog.brusic.com/2012/07/how-private-is-your-online-jo...

jeffmould 10y ago

I run a couple job boards and we tested doing some backfill from Monster at one time. The quality of the postings was horrible. Between them and CareerBuilder we mainly received "work from home", "avon", "mary kay" and "get rich quick" jobs. We could have filtered further, but then we were left with only a few valid results. We ended up not using either. It seems over the past few years they both went for quantity over quality. Indeed's API sucks compared to some of the others, their payouts to partners are horrible, but at least they have a good array of jobs. SimplyHired did a good job, but it seems over the last year they just gave up. Their partner help was non-existant, and their API was in bad need of an overhaul, although it was a well-rounded API and allowed some highly specific niche searches (i.e searching via O*NET codes). Now they are Indeed so that wiped them out of our arsenal. We are left with ZipRecruiter, which in my opinion has one of the best teams to work with. They are not only easy to work with, but super friendly and knowledgable. Mainly they want to see their partners succeed which is a huge benefit for everyone involved.