Monster Careers How to Land the Job of Your Life

Jeff Taylor The idea for Monster came to founder (and Chief Monster) Jeff Taylor in a dream. Head of his own recruitment ad agency, Adion, Jeff was focusing his business on big ideas and technological efficiencies for his high-tech clients. In the fall of 1993, a client said to him, "No more big ideas. I want a monster idea!" Soon afterward, Jeff says, "I woke up at 4:30 A.M. from a dream that I built a bulletin board system where people could look for jobs. In the dark, I wrote down on a pad next to my bed, 'The Monster Board.' Realizing that in the morning I wouldn't be able to read what I had written, I got out of bed, went to a coffee shop, and at five in the morning designed a lot of the concepts and interface we're still using today." Recognized as an innovator and visionary in both the Internet and careers industries, Jeff has reinvented the way the world looks for employment. His "monster idea," conceived at the dawn of the World Wide Web, quickly became one of the first dot-com companies (454th on the Web) and has since grown into the world's leading online career site. Today, the Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in nineteen countries and serves over 16 million unique visitors monthly. Jeff is a frequent speaker at colleges and universities across the country, and at technology, advertising, and human capital conferences hosted by such noted organizations as Forrester Research, 21st Century Workforce Summit, The Partnership for Public Service, The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Fast Company, and The Working Women Network. He serves on both the national and Massachusetts boards of directors of Junior Achievement and is also a board member of Boston's Wang Center for the Performing Arts. Jeff has an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a certificate from the Owner/President Management (OPM) Program, Executive Education, Harvard Business School. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Bentley College. In March 2000, Jeff reached yet another notable milestone: he became the Blimp Waterskiing World Champion. Doug Hardy Doug Hardy, a certified job and career transition coach, was the editor in chief of Monster and is currently general manager of Monster Careers. Prior to joining Monster, Hardy directed book, magazine, and Web publishing businesses in New York and Boston. Both Taylor and Hardy live near Boston.Taylor, Jeff is the author of 'Monster Careers How to Land the Job of Your Life', published 2004 under ISBN 9780142004364 and ISBN 0142004367.