Monster Jobs Reviews

Monster Jobs is not a reliable source for landing any career, occupation, job, gig, side-hustle whatsoever. I filled out the necessary information and have been offered nothing but SPAM phone calls and text messages as well as SPAM emails. It's like some kind of SPAM MONSTER. The only legitimate thing I've landed is a HEADACHE. SMH.

Do not post a job opening on Monster.Com. What I thought was a invoice was only a part of an invoice. I was not informed you are charged by how many people click on your post, whether they apply for the job or not. You get charged per click every single time. Because people want to read a post is no reason to be charged again. Do not post on monster. Use indeed, sometimes it's free there.

I was a recruiter about 8 years ago, and Monster was one of our main sources for finding candidates. So, when I was looking for a job and didn't know any better, I tried Monster. OMG. I received various useless emails unrelated to my search or pay rate. I finally got sick of it and deleted my account. Bye-bye, Monster. You really are.

We used the Monster platform as one of our recruiting pipelines. We have satisfied a 12 month term with Monster using their standard job ads. We then entered into a second 12 month term using their premium job ads that went into effect in May 2024. This second term was agreed upon based on the previous 12 month performance using the platform, and the change from standard job ads to premium job ads was made because we were assured that change would not have a significant effect on the performance we were seeing. We were seeing similar production from the premium ads as compared to the standard job ads.

I cancelled my account more than a year ago. Before I cancelled it I tagged my contact information and resume as inactive. To my dismay my information appears to be still active. I am unable to log into the site to make a correction and Monster does not have an alternate method of contact.

Accessed Monster.com to use the free trial they advertise for. I started filling up the fields required for the Ad. After I finished I was taken to payment section. I Had to call them because I got suspicious since this is a free trial and they were asking for payment. They said it is a routine practice and I shouldn't worry it is going to be free and I just need to cancel at the end of the 72hrs free trial. I did that "which they claim I did not" however, they continued to charge my card for several months until I caught it in my statement from the credit card. They refused to refund me and put the blame at me that I didn't cancel the service that was supposed to be for free. This service should have ended automatically unless I asked for a true subscription. In their logic you have to leave your monies with them when your intentions are sampling the merchandise so if you forget to tell them I am not buying, the burden is on you, we are taking your monies. Be careful.

I am applying for work and so far two of the companies that have reached out to me were fraudulent from Monster. They used real company names. I ended up reaching out to the companies to confirm the jobs after these people told me they were sending me a check to cash and it went on from there. Be careful and these days walking in face to face may be the safest way to go. Now these people have my information and more. Monster doesn't care. I called the customer service number and pushed the option saying I was a client looking to hire someone to get a human. She sent me off into the abyss saying she was going to connect me to the correct department. I held with music for over an hour and I finally got a vm box. Monster doesn't care about people, just money.

My recent experience with Monster.com has left me thoroughly disappointed and frustrated, to say the least. The platform not only failed to deliver on its promises but also engaged in dishonest billing practices that left me questioning the integrity of their services. First and foremost, the issue of transparency arose when Monster.com charged us for months of service without any notification or consent. It was alarming to discover these unauthorized charges, especially considering that we were not benefiting from their services. The lack of communication and transparency on their part is a clear indication of their disregard for customer satisfaction.

Monster.com is not the place to post your job ad unless you want to pay WAY more than you signed up for. We signed up for one package but got switched somehow to their most expensive package. The final cost ended up being way more than we had budgeted for. Customer service is a joke and there is no recourse for disputing the charges. DO NOT USE!! Indeed and LinkedIn are far better and what you pay for is clearly outlined.

Since signing up on Monster and creating my profile I've been getting spammed day in and day out by the same 2 "recruiting" companies with the same unsuitable/bad match/lowball job offer I've had to say no to every single time and the calls keep coming. One is from "Arete Technologies" - you can look them up, they have existing reports as spammers; and the other I can't remember the name of but it keeps calling from a different 734 area code number every time. Same "offshore call center" type reps every time from the 2 "different" companies. Hopefully once I deactivate my account it'll stop. Stay away from this site.

Every applicant that I have received has either been fake, living in a different state or not qualified for the position. You can not cancel this service so before you are roped into a 12 month long contract consider using Indeed which by the way is far superior! Again do not sign any contract with them. You will be wasting your valuable time and money!

Just by looking at their filtering you clearly see they are catering to the employers to make job seekers work harder to find their ideal jobs.... Meaning less filters on purpose such as salary filter don't exist. Vast majority of listings don't list salary... Job seekers want the best job for the best dollar, employers want the best talent at the cheapest pay possible... Who pays the bills for Monster.com, employers... Their competitor Indeed is way better in my opinion even though they have a lot more scammy jobs listed.

...Hi Monster Gulf .... I've received at least 10 personal/phone interviews. I'm proud to say, I just got an offer....I definitely could not have done it without you and I just wanted to say thank you for your help.

Monster.com is doing scam with common people. They sell your resume data to fake recruiting consultancy. And then after you will start getting calls for jobs. They will convince to pay registration fee then they will arrange a fake interview & they will select you and they will offer you good salary. The salary could be in lakhs or 5x or 10x salary from what you are currently getting now. They will make you feel so good that you will stop thinking about scam. Now their business start they will ask money on the name of medical, police verification & many more. Slowly slowly you will lose your thousands of money. Then they will ask you to wait and the wait will never end. And one they all phones are switched off. Happy Scam.... So don’t trust anyone, always visit office of the consultancy then pay for any service. Monster.com is fake scammer, don’t give your personal data.

I purchased "Premium Services" from Monster.Com. I paid US$319 supposedly for resume writing and to highlight my resume in their website. Now, already a month has passed by and I never heard from them again. I called and emailed them a today and I was told I cannot get a refund. Please, please, please WATCH OUT for this company! they are a bunch of SCAMMERS!!! I hope companies who are using their services can read this and will stop doing business with them too! A good company don't want to be associated with SCAMMERS like Monster.Com.

There are several types of scams in this world, but the biggest is always will be scamming people of money. The Monster.com is very much pro in doing that.

I was called up a few times by a persistent sales consultant from India. However he was legitimate because he asked me to log in agree to his proposed services. They delivered on the resume writing and cover letter. To be honest, I didn’t find this service good enough to be paid for. But I was after a job. And they promised to get me recommended to companies after this. It never happened. I spent close to $500 with zero results. However, I did get some hits on my profile with the free service. I’ve noticed that mostly Indian companies use this website. So if you are based in India or are looking to be hired by an Indian company, this is a good website to go to. I have not received any solicitations from companies from other countries though. Overall, it’s ok to use the free service. But don’t pay for their resume writing or job prioritisation service. Not worth it at all.

I am grateful to Monster.com, I look forward to the opportunities & making it huge with additional updates. Associates are very helpful. I have received an opportunity to be availing these again in the future.

Monster.com is a free job search site for job seekers. I never took Monster paid services as a Candidate. In the past years 2012 landed contract job thru Monster Recruiters. Currently need work and posted my Resume 1.5 month.

Monster has 2 platforms: Monster and Monster Plus. I tried their offer for a "Free" Job Posting. It is a nightmare trying to post a FREE job, but after a while I got it, BUT the posting was inactive. Supposedly it because they need to check out the company information. After 2 days I called them, then they told me that I had to sign up first and then post the job and this is why when they were researching my company information the job was not posted. I was told to post it again, which I did. After another day, the same thing happened. I called a 2nd time. The second agent just could not answer me straight if I have to pay for the job posting in order to post or if they have a "free" job posting available. If we must pay, just say so in plain English and cut the **. Terrible way to treat a potential customer.

After a week of signing in to their site, I receive a lot of spam credit card offers. They will send you a random job offer that doesn't fit your job description or skills. Even after deleting my account I still receive spammy credit card offers. I highly suggest not to subscribe or signup for their site, you will regret it! Your information is not safe. If there's a negative star rating for their site. I definitely give them -5 stars.

India based companies have been pretending to be recruiters so they can gather resumes to fish out skills to use in Resumes for Green Card holders in the United States. Monster.com is the biggest culprit. Since posting my resume on Monster.com, I am inundated with spam calls from fake india recruiters offering job opportunities way outside my stated desired positions in my profile on Monster. Almost 50% of the phone calls I am getting are from indian speaking, fake corporations offering contract jobs all over the country. They call as late as 9 p.m. Eastern Time. They have sent emails claiming to have spoken to me and to send my resume to them as soon as possible. So if you are job hunting, do not use Monster.com, they are the single source of these phishing scams from India.

Very bad service by Monster recruitment, they are nicely talking till they get money, don't care to serve the customer. They promised something and not honour it. Don't go with them and waste your money, better put it in trash instead of paying to monster.

I have purchased the career booster at Monsterindia.com and I am satisfied with the amount I paid for. The Team has been very professional and cooperative. Though I have received a opportunity after 3 months of paying for the Xpress resume+ service, it is a relevant opportunity.

As recruiters, we have a system of testing and retesting different job boards. We haven't used Monster.com in years, so wanted to try them out again against our staples of Indeed and Linkedin. We paid $650 for a month of access and didn't get one interview from it. That same spend on Indeed would get us 1 or 2 hires. I would stay clear of this group and look elsewhere.

I created a profile and resume on Monster a few days ago and made sure it was private on not public view. I had not yet applied for any positions. I had my most personal information listed on my resume and profile due to when I apply directly with a company of my choosing, I will know the company, that it's truly local and trust them with my info. Well, I started getting MASS amounts of emails from all over the country, mostly foreign names, mostly claiming to be placement agencies in which I am NOT applying with and some are completely fraudulent. Monster allowed all my most personal information to be in public view although I was careful to make sure I chose it was NOT. VERY UNETHICAL and scary company. They have lost their morals and values. STAY AWAY, it's not the Monster Jobs of long ago when they honored your choice of not allowing public view of your information.

I have been looking for a job for 2 months. I waited until very recently to add my resume to Monster.com. Almost immediately after submitting my resume, I started receiving a constant stream of spam calls from overseas call centers for irrelevant temp jobs. Not a single call about an actual relevant, full-time position. Apparently "allow employers to contact me" means "immediately sell off my information to anyone and everyone that wants it". After using services like LinkedIn and Indeed, Monster.com just feels incredibly cheap and spammy and I honestly don't know why anyone would use it at this point.

Monster is a total scam! My experience had been back in 2015. They charged me almost USD 200 for absolutely nothing. They kept kicking back on me with a slang-English draft of what they believed to be a "gorgeous CV"! They showed no ethics what so ever in ignoring my complaints and demands. I consider their business as illegitimate in all means. They sell honey-speech on calls! Once trapped & charged, they disclose their cheap face right away. I stopped contacting them shortly thereafter; but kept all correspondents for records.

The first mistake I made was to sign up with Monster in the first place. Shortly after that (like minutes) the SPAM began to arrive. No one reads resumes there, the scam-SPAMMERS scrape contact info and then use that to send you garbage. Like jobs that are illegal, or not even close to what my resume describes. And whatever you do, do NOT put a phone number on your resume unless you've got a number just for that. Also don't use your primary email address, create a new one because your inbox will get filled with garbage. I CLOSED my monster account including removing the content of my resume. That was in January 2018. Over 2 years ago! And I'm still getting useless emails sent to me from the monster email system. So clearly monster hangs on to your info and does NOT remove it when you close your account.

Had canceled my profile on Monster years ago and am still get recruiters emailing me for positions halfway across the country using old contact information. Not what I would use for professional searches for positions or for new staff.

Monster never disappoints. I've got a job every time I have tried through Monster.com. Go ahead and give monster a shot. I mean what do you have to lose? Every single time I try with monster.com I always succeed.

I really like Monster. It is to navigate. Always has jobs relevant to search. I like the handy tips that are on the site for instance what is relevant as far as experience. Very helpful. I believe that out of all the search engines Monster will be the one that I find gainful employment that I like.

I opted to post my resume on their site and immediately began long tirade of ROBO calls. I suggest not to post resumes online. This did not end until I changed my phone number. I found that many ads were actually links to other job search websites like Snagajob.com and Jobs.com and Hired.com.

Monster is a good site to research hiring companies but I recommend going to the main company's site to apply if you really want the job you discovered on Monster. Otherwise you'll most likely never hear back on any application filled out.

I know and trust Monster.com since they’ve been out there the longest and their job opportunities are spot on. I’ve searched for job and placed jobs on monster.com so I know both sides of the spectrum. You can find any kind of job on this site from entry level to executive level.

Monster has some of the best results for food service management executive level jobs. I found my last position has Director of ops with Lamadeliene on Monster. The results can even be regionalized for better results.

The resume portion needs improved with MS Word to assist in copy and paste of a resume. Next the overwhelming recruiters sending emails after you update your resume or a simple edit due to bad copy and paste function.

Monster is one of the original Job Search Websites. I just compared it to Indeed for Legal Assistant Jobs in the Santa Cruz, CA area. Indeed was much better. Half a dozen jobs showed up for Indeed, none for Monster. The best feature for Monster has always been its Career Advice section - good information about resume prep, getting ready for interviews, etc. Actually finding a job using Monster, not as good. This comes from someone with 15 years as an Employment Specialist.

Jobs are explained thoroughly and to the point. Very nicely put together. Has a lot of jobs offered. Very easy to go through. Used over and over. Used for the last few years. Much easier than most sites.

I enjoy using the Monster site. It gives you really great search options and also they alert you to job opportunities that come available. Some of their categories are grouped together and I would like to see some of those separated.