Guru.com vs. Monster.com

VERY useful for small companies where one person does an entire job/task. May be less useful for larger companies, as it would be difficult to maintain, and there are usually teams to cover the slack. Also good for tech purposes. Our tech people constantly create Guru cards in order to help us learn to do back-end things.

Incentivized

It is very well for the IT recruitment. Database of the C2C is candidate is very large and very helpful. Monster.com timely do the updates so less bugs and less issues compared to other portals. Using different to get the best potential candidate is very good while using Monster Job Portal.

Incentivized

• The segmentation of information into Collections, boards and individual cards allows you to keep a good control and organization of information contained within.
• An add-on app for Slack and a Chrome extension mean you don't even need to have the Guru.com site open to still be able to access all of your stored information.
• The ability to allow some or all users to create & edit cards adds value and strengthens the team collaboration.

Incentivized

• Monster makes it easy for us to post jobs on their platform.
• Working with Monster does an excellent job of providing alerts when applicants submit for open positions.
• Our applications that we get from Monster applicants are easy for us to segment out for faster sorting and selections.

Incentivized

• Relatively high fees taken out of earnings
• Fake clients still get through, which causes a headache
• Having to pay to get your bid higher up in the list of freelancers makes it even more costly

Incentivized

• Monster.com can improve on its data redundancy aspect. It frustrates the users to look at or access the same sets of results or the same applications again and again.
• It can also look into the spam feature. There are ways one can spam it by taking out information.

Incentivized

Monster is a job portal with rich features and a great depth of database in candidates. They also have a good search option that is able to display the right candidates when you search for them. The only gripe that I have about Monster is that they need to improve their database of candidates when it comes to blue-collar jobs or non-software jobs.

Incentivized

I think Monster.com fills a different niche. SeekOut/LinkedIn are more about finding candidates from the overall pool of millions of profiles and resumes. Monster.com shows you immediately who is looking, who is applying, etc. Monster.com also has the salary tools, which I think is very unique. The other sites do not have that and aren't as transparent about the market. Which I think is very valuable during competitive hiring times like these.

Incentivized

• Great for resolving tech related issues.
• Great for cross-training.

Incentivized

• Using Monster.com gives us a sense of confidence in a time-tested platform.
• We know that using Monster.com will be a better use of our time and resources.
• By knowing we are working with a jobs posting partner like Monster.com we know that we will get to the positive, timely, qualified applicants we're looking for.
• Time is money and Monster.com helps us save a lot of both.

Incentivized