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Canada
23 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Asleep at the wheel
December 8, 2024

You can't get job suggestions in your city even when you set your city, they will just keep emailling you with out of town job suggestions. When you email them and ask how to make this stop they will not reply. The harassing phone calls and fraudulent credit card charges is wild, thanks for the heads up/warning. There are plenty of free resume templates to create your own. Never pay for one.

Date of experience: December 8, 2024
Canada
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In less than 4 hours you charged me over 70 dollars. What a scam! Your goal was to get your monthly maximum, of hundreds of dollars, as fast as possible. I wanted to discuss this with you, considering I got not one hit.instead you debited my account immediately. Talk about unfair business practices, you're greedy. I'll never use you again and I will do all I can to slander you, or as I call it.the truth.

Date of experience: January 29, 2024
New York
1 review
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Fraudulent charges
May 12, 2023

Placed a job ad. Immediately started charging for fake clicks, there were no real applicants at all. I cancelled the ad immediately and got another bill a month later. Incompetent, dishonest staff will not detail the charges beyond very vague "as per the terms and conditions" - which doesn't apply after I've cancelled the job post! Absolutely criminal, scam, fraudulent joke.

Date of experience: May 12, 2023
Texas
1 review
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Spam calls & emails
October 3, 2023

I had to delete and remove myself from monster as I was receiving multiple unqualified calls and email. Recruiters aren't qualifying their leads before contacting me offering very low paying jobs. A lot of call from people in India calling many are possible scam. Don't use monster.

Date of experience: October 3, 2023
Arizona
1 review
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What a why to get your blood pressure pumping! For the past few weeks cus service would call to confirm hotel. They asked for all names of travelers and date of birth. Everything was great. Got plane tickets and all. Than three days before we set to leave they call and say, sorry kids are to old (16/15) and can't go. I flipped out on them could not believe what I was hearing. They gave me a refund for hotel but still had air plane tickets. So I had to find another hotel on my own. What's really funny is they called me again today and asked if I wanted to book another trip. Never again. The name Monster fits them well

Date of experience: July 5, 2023
Arizona
1 review
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Sells your info
October 18, 2023

It may not have been specifically monster, could've been career builder, or any of the other sites I went to while looking for a part-time job. I have been inundated with spam calls for the last three months. If it wasn't monster, it was one of them selling my data.

Date of experience: October 18, 2023
Texas
1 review
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Terrible terrible organization. We bought the Monster Employer subscription, sold to us by Sunny Arora, this dude sold us a service for unlimited searches and 50 AD posts for 1 year.at no point did we use up to 50 AD post. When I complained to Sunny he said we were supposed to update old posts and not use new ones, information that was not passed on to us as at the time of purchase. These folks then later cut off at the end at the beginning of a month, but still sent us a bill for a full month. These folks are a bunch off scammers and have terrible customer service, no time when we had an issue did they help to fix the issue at all which is why we choose not to resubscribe. If you love yourself run away from these scammers. Ruuuunnnnnn

Date of experience: November 18, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
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Since signing up on Monster and creating my profile I've been getting spammed day in and day out by the same 2 "recruiting" companies with the same unsuitable/bad match/lowball job offer I've had to say no to every single time and the calls keep coming. One is from "Arete Technologies" - you can look them up, they have existing reports as spammers; and the other I can't remember the name of but it keeps calling from a different 734 area code number every time. Same "offshore call center" type reps every time from the 2 "different" companies. Hopefully once I deactivate my account it'll stop. Stay away from this site.

Date of experience: July 28, 2023
Michigan
1 review
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Resume Services A Scam
September 1, 2021

I paid $235 for resume services and what was returned to me was an unfinished document. There were incomplete sentences, grammatical errors, formatting errors, and most of the information had nothing to do with any job I performed. The response form the company was "All sales are final."
This is a scam and a fraudulent service.

Date of experience: September 1, 2021
Maryland
1 review
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I am one who put reviews for good service as well, so I am not being in reasonable here but they could have done only better than what the do as a part of the customer service. Payment is big issue. Wish they had good employer payment portal and do it without interacting with customer service folks.

Date of experience: January 29, 2021

Overview

Monster has a rating of 1.8 stars from 123 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Monster most frequently mention customer service, job search and calls emails. Monster ranks 321st among Job Search sites.

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