Website Review for Monster.Com

Overview: monster.com is an online careers search site where members can post online profiles and search for jobs. Employers post jobs online and also search monster for employees.

Aethetic Appeal: 5/10 - monster.com is ugly. No other way to describe pea green, purple, and orange. The search pages are so busy you are never sure if you are looking at an ad or a job posting. The text colors don't mix and it simply links you to the employer's website. You have no way of marking these as viewed. You can't even flag bogus/expired postings like with Craigslist. Maybe with a little user participation this website could get cleaned up, but that doesn't appear to be coming.

Usability/Functionality: 4/10 - The search features are vague and often you will be looking for one thing and find something completely different. The site gauges distance with Google maps, but I think that is just a front for the colonial era map they use. I honestly can't believe D.C. is five miles from Fairfax, VA. Posting your resume is painful and worthless. Even if you format it correctly the site will mess ruin it. Using their resume creator leaves you with a mess that no employer would ever read.

Content: 5/10 - Awful something this basic should be so much easier to use. Posting a job on monster is like saying, "We don't care if we find someone." I do get a ton of junk mail and bogus job offers now that I am a member so thanks for all the spam monster.com. The ads distract from the content, but also mimic it so you're redirected.

Etc: I have never hated any website this much. I don't understand how people can use this. I feel like I need to get monster.com training just to use it. Nothing is where it should be and when you search with minor changes it can give you completely different results. I would rather dig through craigslist than try and use this website for any amount of time. Many of the results are also stale or expired, yet continue to come up in results.

Overall: 2/10 - Use Craigslist.com, Careerbuilder, or anything other than monster because it is simply just a waste of your time. This is the FoxNews of job searching. There are enough other job website online to where you don't have to use this one unless you want to.