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Monster.com is an employment website. It was created in 1999 by the merger of The Monster Board and Online Career Center (OCC), which were two of the first and most popular career web sites on the Internet. more...

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Monster has a powerful job search engine which those seeking work can use to find job offers that match their skills and (present or preferred) locales.

Today, Monster is still one of largest job search web sites on the Internet, claiming over a million job postings at any time and over 41 million resumes in the database. With approximately 5,000 employees in 26 countries, the company has a powerful global brand and unparalleled international reach. Monster is the only pan-European employment website and is growing fast in developing markets such as India.

Jeff Taylor founded The Monster Board and served as CEO and "Chief Monster" for many years. The Monster Board started as a Bulletin Board System (BBS) for job postings but ended up as a web site in April 1994. Later in 1994, The Monster Board issued a press release that was picked up and provided needed exposure to drive people to the web site. Monster was the 454th website. It was the first public job search on the Internet; first public resume database in the world and the first to have job search agents or job alerts.

TMP acquired of two of the earliest pioneers in the online careers space—The Monster Board April 1995, and Online Career Center (OCC) in 1995.

History

TMP went public in December 1996, with its shares traded on Nasdaq under the symbol “TMPW”. In 1998, TMP acquisitions expanded the Recruitment Advertising network. TMP became one of the largest recruitment advertising agencies in the world.

In June 1998, The Monster Board moved its corporate headquarters out of a small office above a Chinese restaurant in downtown Framingham, Massachusetts to an old textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts that formerly housed Digital Equipment Corporation.

In January 1999, The Monster Board became known as Monster.com after merging with Online Career Center, another of TMP Worldwide's properties. The first post-merger president of the new Monster.com business was Bill Warren, the founder of Online Career Center. Bill Warren received the 1997 Employment Management Association's prestigious Pericles Pro Meritus Award, an honor presented by EMA/SHRM in recognition of being the founder of online recruiting on the Internet.

Recognizing that job hunting often leads to relocation, Monster launched Monstermoving.com in 2000 to provide consumers with the comprehensive resources necessary for a successful move. In 2000, Monster acquired Jobtrak and created Monstertrak.com. Jobtrak was originally founded in 1987. Monstertrak.com is geared towards college students and alumni seeking a job.

TMP Worldwide was added to S&P 500 Index in 2001. TMP Worldwide changed its corporate name to Monster Worldwide, Inc. and began trading under the new Nasdaq ticker symbol "MNST" in 2003.

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