[June 5] Online careers site
Monster.com
announced Monday the extension of its European
operations to Germany and Ireland.
Owned by global recruitment agency TMP Worldwide,
Monster.com is launching Monster.de in
collaboration with the German careers site
stellenborse.de. The new site starts business with
a database of 8,000 CVs.
Jeff Taylor, chief executive officer of
Monster.com, said Germany and Ireland were both
important and promising markets in his company’s
European expansion program.
“As well as being Europe’s largest labor market,
analysts expect Germany to account for 26.2 percent
of total European e-commerce operations by 2004.
This is a prime location for Monster.com, as we
continually strive to provide job seekers and
employers all the benefits and services they need
from a global perspective.”
The two new sites will tighten Monster.com’s
grip on the European recruitment market, where
it already has sites in France, the U.K., the
Netherlands and Belgium.
The next countries to be targeted by Monster.com
are Spain, Italy, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech
Republic — and according to reports there will
be more to follow.
At its March 2000 audit, Monster.com revealed it
was getting 15.2 million unique visits per month,
a figure that should grow significantly with the
opening of all the European sites.
Recruitment, with its search-intensive characteristics,
is one of the Internet’s most natural applications.
Some experts believe that 55 per cent of all recruitment
will take place over the Web within five years.
However, in a highly competitive market the winners
are likely to be those that offer the most comprehensive
services for job-seekers and recruiters alike. Monster.com
says it aims to provide a total service — and become
the industry leader in Europe by the end of this year.
To visit the new sites, go to:
Monster.de
Monsterireland.ie
