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    Monster (website)

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    industry [[Job search engine|Job Search Engine
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    Monster.com is an employment website owned by Monster Worldwide. Monster is 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, with over a million job postings at any time and over 150 million resumes in the database (2008) and over 63 million job seekers per month. The company employs approximately 5,000 employees in 36 countries.

    Monster also maintains 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.

    Initially, the site was populated with job descriptions from the newspaper segment of Adions business with the permissions of the companies advertising the jobs.

    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 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.

    When TMP acquired Adion, the site was moved into BBN Planets web hosting facility where it grew from 3 SPARC-1000s to become read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster+(website)

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