Monster.com is one of the largest
employment websites in the world, owned and operated by
Monster Worldwide, Inc. In 2006, Monster was 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.
Today, Monster is the largest job search engine in the world.
Monster has over a million job postings at any time and over 1 million
resumes, in the database (2008) and over 63 million job seekers per month.
The company employs approximately 5,000 employees in 36 countries. Its headquarters are in
New York, New York in the
United States. In October 2010,
Indeed.com slipped past Monster.com to become the largest job site in the United States.
Monster also maintained the
Monster Employment Index.
Jeff Taylor founded The Monster Board and served as CEO and "Chief Monster" for many years.
History
Jeff Taylor contracted Christopher Caldwell of
Net Daemons Associates to develop a facility in an NDA lab on a
Sun Microsystems Sparc
5 where job seekers could search a job database with a web browser. The
machine was moved to sit under a router in a phone closet in Adion (a
human resources company owned by Taylor) when the site went live in
April 1994.