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Yes, I know what you're thinking! He's at it again! He isn't going to let it go! But no.
In retrospect of my experience with Monster Jobs a few months ago (see this article: Monster Jobs - My experience with them!), I thought I would give them another chance and have another look at the site. They are the worlds leading career network after all! And there have been some changes.
The first I noticed was that as you log on, the advice section is more clearly visible. This is a great improvement on before! This way more people can get the answers they want without waiting for a reply on the forum.
But back on to my old hunting ground:
The Jobseekers Forum AAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH! What have they done to it?
34 posts in total (OK 29, there are a few duplicates), and only 7 have been responded to in a fortnight. None in the past 5 days.
Now I know I messed around a bit on the forum, but at least I was there every day answering posts and helping people out. Rich too.
It really sickens me that a company that claims to be the world's leading career network puts so little emphasis on the jobseeker.
I am not claiming that this site is perfect, but we at least answer all the posts on the forum if we can, and there is some decent information kicking about the articles section. All this on a site that is run part time!
And a bit of a petty web design gripe - their main banner on the page doesn't load.
Onwards to the other forums! A quick overview of the forums I looked at (you know, the ones who have "experts" on them), these are the stats for the first page of each:
It should be noted that this is only a sample of the forums that Monster Jobs have and these stats would fluctuate daily, but are accurate as at 17th December 2002.
The fly in the ointment Yeh, another one.
Only this one is a big one.
I went to the Monster Poll forum where people can discuss the current topic of the survey.
It is full of racist comments and sick jokes. All of these were posted at least 3 or 4 days ago, so there has been plenty of time to remove them.
Solution? I felt the last issue there needed addressing as soon as possible and the others too in the longer term.
So I contacted Monster and asked for some comments on these points.
Here is the email I sent to their press officer (monsterpressoffice@miller.shandwick.com) and to Mark Mills, Jobseekers Help Expert (userservices@monster.co.uk):
UPDATE: No response from my emails, but their forums were cleaned up over the next couple of days!
Regards Scott Boyd - Webmaster and Founder - Jobseekers Advice
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