MONSTER.COM
Monster.com is an employment website owned by Monster Worldwide. Monster is one of the 20 most visited websites out of 100 million worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrics (November 2006). It was created in 1999 by the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Center (OCC), which were two of the first and most popular career web sites on the Internet. Monster is primarily used to help those seeking work to find job openings that match their skills and location.
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Today, Monster is the largest job search engine in the world, with over a million job postings at any time and over 150 million resumes in the database (2008) and over 63 million job seekers per month. The company employs approximately 5,000 employees in 36 countries.
Monster also maintains the Monster Employment Index.
Jeff Taylor founded The Monster Board and served as CEO and "Chief Monster" for many years.
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Market Yourself
Make yourself a brand
A man, smiling, while being interviewed.Think of yourself as a product: Am I a well-known brand, like Coke? Or am I unknown? If you’re like most of us, you fall into the second category. Increase your visibility among your peers by joining professional organizations or offering yourself as a resource to the media for interviews. Start an industry blog and link to other blogs in your geographic region or field of expertise.
Business networking online
Numerous networking tools exist online - There’s LinkedIn, Facebook, BrightFuse, Twitter, and many others. Here’s a strategy to making these tools work for you:
1. Get yourself on at least one social networking website – LinkedIn is a good start because it focuses specifically on business networking. You’ll need to become a member and create a profile so others can find you online.
2. Create your network. Search for friends and former co-workers, alumni groups, trade organizations and groups you’d like to be associated with. Be bold – it never hurts to ask. And once someone is in your network, check out their networks! An article that may help is “Ten Ways to use LinkedIn to Find a Job.”
3. Let your network know you’re “in-between jobs” and looking for work. You can use your “status update” to let people know that you’re looking. You can also ask your network for recommendations you can use for your next interview.
4. Visit the website of a company you’d like to work at. Find the names of people in desired positions and use company directories and search engines to find out what kinds of career paths they’ve had. Company profiles can also let you know the next career step people took after leaving the company.
5. LinkedIn has a job search engine. Try and find which person posted the job – that might be the hiring manager, a key person to know if you want to work there.
6. If you want to expand your search into other social networking tools, Slate.com has a primer on how to job search on Facebook and Twitter.
Get Yourself Up to Date
Resumes
Build a strong resume – List accomplishments and use specifics – say you grew sales by $200,000, brought on 50 new clients, etc. It’s a good habit to regularly update your resume whenever you are employed, when everything is fresh in your mind.
Do you have a professional email address? Cutesy handles like “greatpokerface1984” have no place in job searches. Create a new email address if you need to. Also, be aware that some employers may infer information about you by what kind of email account you have.
Make sure it’s perfect – Triple-check it for spelling errors and other weaknesses. Give it to a friend to check for you. Never send out a resume when you have just finished editing it – step away from it, take a break, and review it with fresh eyes later.
Get it online – Getting your resume online gives you a better chance of having an employer find you. Get your resume online by:
* Creating your own website. Make your own site for free (Yahoo, Freewebs and other sites are everywhere. Even professional pay sites are inexpensive - get a website for as low as $10 a year from GoDaddy.com.
* Post it online for free at the above places or sites like 100bestfreewebspace. It’s recommended that you post in a few different formats (Word, Adobe .pdf) so each resume appears as a different link when someone web searches your name.
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