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Monster.com is one of the most visited employment websites in the United States and one of the largest in the world. It is owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. 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. Monster.com is one of the most trafficked employment websites in the United States as ranked by Alexa (see the Alexa ranking in the infobox to the right, as compared to other employment websites). In October 2010, Indeed.com passed Monster.com to become the largest job site in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indeed Slips Past Monster, Now Largest Job Site By Unique Visitors )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indeed Takes Top Job Search Spot From Monster )〕 A provider of rankings of the amount of unique viewers per month—comScore Inc—in January 2013, ranks Monster.com third behind Indeed.com and Careerbuilder.com, which is not far behind Indeed.com. Monster.com is one of the largest job search engines in the world.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 10 Most Effective Job Search Websites )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Search Engine List: Comprehensive list of Search Engines )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Job Search Sites )〕 In 2008, Monster had over a million job postings at any time and over 1 million resumes, in the database and over 63 million job seekers per month.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Naukri.com vs. MonsterIndia.com vs. TimesJobs.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Naukri.com vs. MonsterIndia.com vs. TimesJobs.com in 2015 )〕 The company has approximately 5,000 employees on its payroll in 36 countries. Its headquarters is in New York, New York in the United States.〔 Monster also maintained 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 Adion's business with the permissions of the companies advertising the jobs. Later, in 1996, 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 Planet's web hosting facility where it grew from 3 SPARC-1000s to become the centerpiece of the globally distributed network it is today. TMP went public in December 1996, with its shares traded on NASDAQ under the ticker 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. In November 2000, seeking to capture the entry-level job market, Monster acquired JOBTRAK, which at the time had partnerships with more than 1,500 college and university career centers. JOBTRAK was founded in 1987 by Jeff Wohlwend, Connie Ramberg, Ken Ramberg and David Franey. Monster rebranded JOBTRAK as MonsterTRAK and continues to operate the site to target college students and alumni seeking jobs and career advice. 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. TMP Worldwide was added to S&P 500 Index in 2002. TMP Worldwide changed its corporate name to Monster Worldwide, Inc. and began trading under the new NASDAQ ticker symbol "MNST" in 2003. Monster.com advertised on the Super Bowl starting in 1999 and every year through Super Bowl XXXVIII. Monster's first-ever Super Bowl ad, "When I Grow Up", (created by Mullen) asking job seekers, "What did you want to be?" It is the only commercial named to ''Time'' magazine's list of the "Best of Television 1999." As the official online career management services sponsor of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and 2002 U.S. Olympic Team, Monster had a strong presence at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. In April 2002, Monster purchased the Jobs.com URL and trademark for $800,000. Founder and Chairman Jeff Taylor was quoted as saying "Jobs.com is a desirable URL". In August 2005, founder Jeff Taylor left Monster to create Eons.com. In April 2007, Monster named Sal Iannuzzi as chairman and CEO. In May 2007,〔(monster.co.uk: Monster Offers Job Search On the Move )〕 Monster launched its first (NA and EU) Mobile services offering (Mobile job search and career advice ). In January 2008, Monster acquired Affinity Labs for US$61 million.〔(Monster buys S.F. Web operator Affinity for $61 million )〕 In July 2008, Monster acquired Trovix, a semantic job search engine, for USD $72.5 million. Monster has indicated that it plans to replace their job search and candidate matching with Trovix's technology. In February 2010, it was announced that Monster would acquire its rival, HotJobs, from Yahoo! for $225 million. HotJobs was shut down in favor of Monster.com, and Yahoo would establish a traffic sharing agreement with Monster as well. In 2011, with Iannuzzi still at the helm, the company's stock was rated the worst performing stock of the year. On 12 May 2012, after a 2-year drop in MWW's shareprice, Monster shares are up 20 percent, having rallied since CEO Sal Iannuzzi told an investor conference early in March 2012 that the company was considering "strategic alternatives." That bump, however, did not last. On September 17, 2013, Monster.com launched a new feature allowing companies to include an "Apply with Monster" button on job listing pages. February 2014: Monster vacated a location in Maynard, MA and relocated an estimated 600 employees to Weston, MA. This ended a 15.5 year tenure in Maynard. July 2014, Monster reveals its new identity with a new logo, a new font and a stronger purple.〔http://www.monster.com/about/a/monster-announces-commercial-availability-of-new-products-new-brand-0701〕 On November 4, 2014, Iannuzzi's tenure as CEO ended. During his time at the company's helm, its stock value declined by over 90% and it lost 93% of its market capitalization, falling from 5.5B USD when he was named CEO to under 400M USD when he departed. Shares of Monster.com jumped 12% in pre-market trading with the announcement of his departure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monster.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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