Monster Reviews & Insights

Score7.1 out of 10

111 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Monster.com are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Strong Resume Search Feature: Multiple users have praised Monster.com for its strong resume search feature that allows for a detailed and specific search criteria. This has been particularly appreciated by reviewers who value the ability to use abstracts in Boolean keys, which helps them find candidates with the desired skills more effectively.

Relevant Candidate Matches: Many reviewers have found Monster.com's ability to attract and match relevant candidates to job positions to be extremely helpful. This feature not only saves time in the hiring process but also aids in weeding out unqualified candidates. Users appreciate being able to focus on reviewing potential hires who are a good fit for their requirements.

Easy Navigation and Streamlined Application Process: Several users have commended Monster.com for its logical layout, easy navigation, and streamlined application process. They find the website user-friendly, making it accessible for both job seekers and employers alike. The intuitive interface enhances the overall experience on the platform, facilitating efficient job searches and applications.

Monster Reviews

15 Reviews

Performance Usability and Value Monster.com

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 27, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Monster.com portal for Sourcing the candidate profile for my business needs. While other portals are too costly, Monster.com provides us a valuable and cost effective services. I always prefer to use Monster.com for my non-It and IT requirements. It provides me an good number of search results. It will be definitely TAT.

Pros

Rating of the profile
Accurate Searching
Location fetching
Power Search

Cons

Need improvement in visa filtering

Likelihood to Recommend

I'm managing a team and I always prefer my team to use Monster.com portal for an effective search. I recommend to use Boolean or power search where Monster.com is very good in that. I has the rating for each profiles according to our search which helps to evaluate the profile whether it matches or not without opening it.

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

One great platform has steadily declined.

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a job posting site and resume database that assists in filling vacancies, Monster helps us quickly post job postings on the Internet and fill our vacancies quickly. However, the scope of use and effectiveness of Monster have steadily declined in the years since it was acquired by a staffing firm.

Pros

Publish posting.
Search engine.
Interface

Cons

Resume database.
Reach
Marketing

Likelihood to Recommend

Depending on your industry, you may find candidates in their database, particularly more senior candidates. Younger candidates aren't as aware of Monster. It doesn't seem like the parent company that purchased Monster a few years ago spends much on marketing.

Verified User

Manager in Corporate (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Monster: Jack of all Trades.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a recruiter in a staffing company, fetching profiles according to clients' requirements. Monster.com helps the recruiter and the organization to find qualified candidates according to their business needs. Monster.com has many candidates for every location and different skill sets. Monster.com also provides job posting features and resume filtering, reducing the turnaround time. The scope of my use case is Monster.com job posting and sourcing candidates itself complete the entire cycle of recruitment, which helps me to attract the candidate from the job posting, and if they are not aware of the job posting, we can use the ATS or sourcing tool to reach them if they are fit for the role.

Pros

Job Posting.
Sourcing Profile through Database.
ATS (Application Tracking System).

Cons

Filtering
Integration with other ATS.
Pricing

Likelihood to Recommend

Monster.com has a very vast database, and there is always the possibility of getting the profile for a particular region or for a specific skill set. It is easier to fetch the profile from mid to senior-level roles and use search all over the world, which means global search is less appropriate because it is costly for a third party or a small company.

Verified User

Professional in Human Resources (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Monster.com: When talent is prioritized

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Monster.com for Candidate sourcing at my current organization. Monster.com helps to quickly identify candidates who meet specific qualifications which reduces time spending on reviewing the profiles. Also, Monster.com has the best filtering options which makes it more helpful for employers to filter out the best resources.

Pros

Monster.com is the best to find the talented resources. For an instance a company is looking for a software engineer, Monster.com can access resumes qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds and skill sets.
Monster.com has the best filter options that help employers to fetch the best resources.
Monster.com excels in offering user-friendly recruitment platform that fulfill to the needs of employers in attracting, screening, and hiring top talent.

Cons

Monster.com can integrate with other ATS (Applicant tracking systems) which help organizations with advanced HR Systems.
Monster.com can add some filters like salary range an employer is looking for a particular job which candidate has already mentioned while uploading profile on Monster.com.
Monster.com can reduce some pricing in some of its premium plans.

Likelihood to Recommend

Recently my company had an large opening for Customer Service representatives. With Monster.coms ability to target broad candidate groups and its easy job posting tools, i successfully attracted a large number of applicants quickly. Additionally, its resume database search feature allowed me to access a wide variety of applicants and contact them directly, speeding up the hiring process. With the help of Monster.com i was able to hire 20 CSR's in two weeks.

Najmus Saqib

Technical Recruiter in Human Resources at Aptask (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

You will never find an employee on Monster.com on the coastline of the UK but will get a Monster bill

Rating: 1 out of 10

November 18, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Monster.com sold themselves as the recruitment company but this is far from the truth of the matter, as if you live on the coast ( Rhyl) of the UK your job search on their program will going out to sea and when you tell them you have had no one reply to your job ad they tell you to move the job over to another town like Wrexham & Chester when your looking for someone local, and not from outside of the area. On complaining they make out its you and not them as candidates are not interested in your job and couldn't care less if you find someone or not and all their interested in is the money We have moved over to indeed and within 2 days bang people are applying for the three jobs we have on offer and all three jobs have now been filled and guess what not one person has applied from Monster.com tells you everything about Monster.com. Don't waste your money or your time with Monster.com, go straight to Indeed if you want results.

Cons

Listen to the customer would help
Don't miss sell their service
And lastly sort the program they use so it goes in land and not out to see

Likelihood to Recommend

Big company who only care about the sell and not the customer if they were to think about the customer point of view then they would get more custom

Trevor Tyrie

Trevor Tyrie at TT Drianage & Plumbing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

Monster.com, a true Monster in the recruiting game.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Monster.com as a means of finding the right candidates for job openings. I work as a contracted recruiter for companies, and Monster.com often has a great range of people actively looking for work. We also submit job descriptions to get a feel for who is out there in the market. I feel the people on Monster.com are more niche than the ones on competing sites, and it makes the response rate much higher.

Pros

Shows interested candidates
Shows relevant job openings
Post job openings
Strong search parameters

Cons

Monster.com's interface feels a little outdated at times
It could have strong filter options
Easier ways to export resumes to CSVs, PDFs, etc.
Ways to transfer mass amounts of candidates to other platforms

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Monster.com is great in terms of finding interested candidates. Instead of cold-calling/contacting people out of the blue that may not be looking for work, you can set up an open job posting and see what the market is currently like. As stated before, I think the community/people who use Monster.com is smaller than some of the other large competing sites, which is actually beneficial for recruiters like me. I can find the people avidly looking for work and reach out to them.

Dustin Nguyen

Associate in Professional Services at IQTalent Partners (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

BEST PORTAL FOR RECRUITER

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a technical recruiter Monster.com is one of the best platforms I use almost all day to search for various candidates who are looking for various jobs in Information technology or Non-IT. It provides the best quality resumes. In Monster.com as a recruiter we got the option to look for candidates in different locations while the person is looking for full-time opportunity or part-time. It somehow plays a most important role in my day to day recruiting life and I will highly recommend Monster.com to other recruiters as well to use it on daily basis to get better results in their careers.

Pros

Location search.
Candidates who updated resume recently.
Easy to use and user friendly.
Keyword search.

Cons

Multiple resume with same email address.
Please update in showing results from recently updated resumes to past updated while someone enters some keywords.

Likelihood to Recommend

While using Monster.com in everyday recruiting it gives wide options to look for candidates. Sometimes it happens that while I thought that a profile might be fake, seeing those profiles with company started and review the thoughts change completely and somehow the problem is resolved in Monster.com only. So it's highly recommend by me to other recruiters to sort profiles through Monster.com only.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Life Savior

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At Monster, we work to bring humanity and opportunity to the job market, to enhance lives, businesses, and communities around the world. We use Monster for sourcing resume power search accepting abstract in the Boolean keys. Allow us to view candidate profiles so we can manage the views for ROI Flexible Services for various needs. Allows us to manage the search criteria in a creative manner track status of candidates

Pros

Sourcing the Right Resumes
Managing various Filters
Track status of candidates

Cons

The cost to use service
Limiting the number of resume views
Sometimes multiple login create the issue of not getting the proper results

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited for: Allow us to view candidate profiles so we can manage the views for ROI! Flexible Services for various needs! Allows us to manage the search criteria in a creative manner! Track status of candidates. Cons: Intelligence search is more effective. Provide more profile information when sourcing. Track status of candidates including follow-up action items.

Shubhanshu Mishra

Account Executive in Information Technology at Tekfortune Inc (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

View profile

Best Job Portal is Monster.com

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 25, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this for the sourcing resume for the clients in the US. Largest collection of candidate's resume. Very useful filters to find the best resource qualified for the role. Easily tract the open and new resumes. Power search is very useful to get the resource on time. Can easily get you the good profile in a limited calls.

Pros

Sourcing Resume
Power Search
Accepting Abstract in the Boolean keys

Cons

Sometimes multiple login create the issue of not getting the proper results
Unable to get details for few roles
Don't have any filter to find the work authorization

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Sam Jain

Talent Acquisition Specialist in Human Resources at Cynet Systems Inc (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

View profile

Monster.com, not cheap but very effective

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 8, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Monster.com when we are not receiving quality candidates from other hiring sources. We use it to fill both office and skilled labor positions within our organization.

Pros

Attracts candidates
Matches candidates to positions
Weeds out unqualified candidates

Cons

The cost to use service
Limiting the number of resume views

Likelihood to Recommend

Monster.com is a great resource to have when our other candidate sourcing tools do not work. It is not free like several others, but I feel like it does ensure you get a quality candidate.

Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience