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Permalink Reply by Suzanne M King on July 29, 2009 at 4:15pm

I'm not sure its super ethical to share contract terms on a discussion board. Perhaps a helpful way for you to gauge the market would be to call Monster's competitors and ask them what deal they'd be willing to offer you for the next year. www.kingconsultant.com

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Permalink Reply by Richard on July 29, 2009 at 4:52pm

Thank you to both.

In regarding super ethical, well, when you shop online nowadays, you can use so many sites, but sites like Pricegrabber.com allow you to show what different things cost on different sites. Orbitz and many sites have pricematch guarantees. I was simply reaching out to the community as I don't want to get hosed on paying big fees only to find someone else paid a lot less. I figured that's what this community is for.

I'll throw my terms out and so anyone that wants to benefit, can - last year I paid $7,000 for 12 months national search and 30 postings (of which I've used like 2). Was just proposed $5,200 for the same 12 months of national search and 30 more postings. Sounds better (than $7k), but perhaps the market will bear $3,000. I don't know....

Thank you to both again.

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Permalink Reply by Richard on July 29, 2009 at 5:06pm

Thank you tons Sandra!

Sandra McCartt said:

Priceline negotiator: "namby pamby, offer the 3K, the worst thing they can do is say no." LOL I agree. I didn't see any don't ask , don't tell clause in that contract.

In my opinon you are correct. It has also been my experience that unless one has a lot of time to dig through databases and try to contact candidates who have been on sites for years and long since gone the postings will pick up anyone actively looking. Most importantly passive candidates who are just looking and something catches their eye so they jump on the site and send a resume but have their profile hidden.

Depends on what works best for you and your verticle.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Ceccarelli on July 30, 2009 at 1:15pm

That's a pretty good deal through Monster. Monster still generates the most resumes when I post on assorted sites (obviously......duh!) because of its branding. But the last few years it has shrunk dramatically as a total percentage to my total hires as a source code (I track hires by source code at the end of the year). Craigslist on the other hand is uber cheap in comparison..........shorter resume flow (a few days versus a lot of activity in a week on Monster), quality is pretty good and since a lot of the professionals that I hire for are in the Gen Y to younger Gen X arena, it is working very well for me. I pay about $30.00 per posting for Craigslist and that is much, much less expensive than Monster. I'm considering only using Monster for National search next year and eliminating the posting aspect all together.

I still don't find social media to be relevant or meaningful in regards to candidate flow/resume flow like some of the others who post on this site and have had success. I do the same thing they are doing and in the long run, for now it's just not worth the time and energy.

Good luck!

Richard said:

Thank you to both.

In regarding super ethical, well, when you shop online nowadays, you can use so many sites, but sites like Pricegrabber.com allow you to show what different things cost on different sites. Orbitz and many sites have pricematch guarantees. I was simply reaching out to the community as I don't want to get hosed on paying big fees only to find someone else paid a lot less. I figured that's what this community is for.

I'll throw my terms out and so anyone that wants to benefit, can - last year I paid $7,000 for 12 months national search and 30 postings (of which I've used like 2). Was just proposed $5,200 for the same 12 months of national search and 30 more postings. Sounds better (than $7k), but perhaps the market will bear $3,000. I don't know....

Thank you to both again.

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