I am making a complaint to the AG and even thought of a class action law suit, but right now I am just really upset and very sick at the thought of my personal info Find another way to seek out open positions in your area. I have been looking for a job for 2 months. I waited until very recently to add my resume to Monster.
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. Monster is a total scam! My experience had been back in They charged me almost USD 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! 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.
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. That was in January 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. Go ahead and give monster a shot. I mean what do you have to lose? Every single time I try with monster. 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've used it a few times, getting my next employment through them. There were incomplete sentences, grammatical errors, formatting errors, and most of the information had nothing to do with any job I performed.
The response form the company was "All sales are final. Monster changed the site in the middle of a pandemic. They lost all my job search history. I am lucky I backed it all up, turned it into a pdf. But people that needed it to show they were looking for a job just got slashed across the face on this screwing up.
It's just data don't tell me you lost a data table - BS - You dropped it in the code. Submitting my application through Monster and allowing for my information to be seen by other "recruiters" was probably the worst decision I made in my job seeking process.
Every week I receive at least two emails and two phone calls about a job that apparently I applied to but need to "sign a confirmation letter" so that they can give their boss my resume as if that's not public information. This website has opened up my information to scammers and now I have to deal with it weekly.
Thanks a lot. I am one who put reviews for good service as well, so I am not being in reasonable here but they could have done only better than what the do as a part of the customer service. Payment is big issue. Wish they had good employer payment portal and do it without interacting with customer service folks. Monster willingly posts jobs that don't exist. The jobs have links to ads, customer service is non-existent. I've used chat, phone, email, social media, you name it. Their service is set up entirely to make them money, not to connect employers with candidates.
It's truly a ripoff for everyone. Maybe the IRS will take notice. As a recruiter, I've used Monster off and on for 20 years and they still act like they are the only game in town. They don't make any effort to remove duplicate resumes, perhaps because it's part of their business model: charging recruiters for resumes they've already viewed. I have a monster account.
For some reason I'm not able to login in. They have not responded to any. So now I can't update my resume or anything else. They suck. I made the huge mistake of paying them for resume builder and resume promotion services. They are nothing but a scam! By then you're fedup and decide to do it yourself anyways - they dont promote your resume to anyone except scam companies who start calling you for more payment - they sell your details to other scamsters who lure you to apply for foreign countries' immigration by paying again!
Very surprising Tip for consumers: Job seekers should register in Naukri. Products used: Resume blast for getting noticed by potential recruiters. At least the emails say they're from Monster, so it's truth in advertising. But the only jobs that ever contact me through Monster are sleazy ones. Avoid them. They're almost as bad as JobVite. Didn't provide service until the very last second.
Kept upselling me when I was waiting. Eventually, just throw me a gibberish random template. After a month of signing up for the package CV Cover letter connections to relevant recruiters etc The first version was a 3 pages long CV with terrible format from my 2 pages original version , the second version was my old CV with a different colour and not a single change in the content - the cover letter could have been done by an automation service and is not addressing my work search - I haven't received any relevant leads or connection in my search but a lot of offers in markets I wasn't interested in for job that don't event remotely are related to my profile - I keep receiving call at 5AM because no one seems to understand I am based in Europe The list goes on and on!
I deleted my resume before I closed my account with monster. When I asked how they get into my resume the person replied its from a job portal career builder or monster. I do not have account with CB.
Tip for consumers: Don't upload your resume on monster. Just check for job opportunities and apply directly to company website. I've been using job search sites such as monster. I don't really have a problem about the leads they send, but I have substantial problems with customer service.
I have a question for them that they could probably answer in 10 seconds. I can't find help online - help is only geared to employers. Likewise, the "support" from the website is geared only to employers. If you call customer service and say "job seeker," you get hung up on automatically after telling you to go to the website.
Monster and other like services can only stay alive by having a substantial amount of employer customers. I totally get that. And maybe it is more important than job seekers. I even get that. But there is absolutely no help for job seekers. I couldn't even find a chat option. While employers pay the bills again, I get that , but Monster and other similar services can't get employers without job seekers.
Zip Recruiter is my favorite, followed by Indeed. At least you can get assistance from them if you need it. I've signed up to all the major job search websites and the only one to never send me anything relevant is Monster. The vacancies have either expired - even on their own website, the email subject rarely matches the job description or location in the email body Product Owner in London vs ScrumMaster in Germany when I am a contract Java Dev or you hear absolutely nothing after you apply for a role.
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